With fall in the air, open enrollment season is under way. For health care benefits brokers, that means its crunch time. Employees of the companies you serve and many benefits administrators, too have loads of questions about how consumer-directed plans work.

New York's largest health insurance company, UnitedHealth Group Inc., agreed Tuesday to publicly disclose more data used to justify premium increases.

Less than half of American workers with diabetes think they have what they need in the workplace regarding their health, according to a recent poll of members of dLife, a community network and resource for people living with diabetes.

Funny thing is, the vocal anti-vaccine crowd needs the vaccinated majority to keep their children healthy. As we saw with recent pertussis and measles outbreaks in California, all it takes is a single unvaccinated parent or child to reignite another epidemic.

This week I took a look at whether premiums can be used to predict claims. Unfortunately, claims paid are only required to be reported on health policies that use experience related contracts, which represent a very small minority (around 7 percent) of health plans filed.

When Im asked to help with an employee benefit design, one of my first questions concerns the employers tax structure. Unfortunately, sometimes the response is, Who cares?

The number of defined contribution plans offering a sustainable and responsible investing (SRI) choice could double in the next few years, according to a new study by the US SIF Foundation and Mercer.

Gov. Sam Brownback's administration is delaying the release of its plan for overhauling the Medicaid program in Kansas until next month so that it has the most current state revenue projections possible, his spokeswoman said Tuesday.