Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee teamed with insurance agent groups Tuesday to attack U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) efforts to apply a uniform fiduciary standard to investment product sales.

The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) an employer group is asking the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to make administration of the new comparative effectiveness research fee as simple as possible.

Retirement plan professional groups are asking the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to stick with the current registration process for continuing education (CE) programs.

The 11 U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) ensures that the U.S. Supreme Court will be the ultimate arbiter of the laws constitutionality, but it also further muddies the water as to what benefits employers will have to provide...

Joel Ario, director of the Office of Insurance Exchanges at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), seems to be leaving that post.

An Obama administration official defended the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) rate review provisions today at a Senate hearing.

The new federal budget deal resolution may not refer directly to private health insurance, but it could have major effects on the health market, an analyst says.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed regulations for the Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) program – an initiative that is supposed to create a new type of nonprofit, consumer-governed health insurer.