The buzz created by the opening of the public insurance exchanges has stirred interest in their private-sector counterparts.

Like anything else that becomes suddenly beyond popular, wellness plans are encountering blowback as more employers adopt them and fiddle with the incentive dials.

Two-thirds of employees just do not care about the details of their employer health benefits package.

The universitys benefits staff apparently learned that the carrot and the stick approach to wellness program engagement may not be the best way to encourage participation.

The law essentially kills stop-loss coverage as a small-business protection, though it grandfathers in any such plan that was in effect up to Sept. 1.

An agency-by-agency report of what's closed and what remains operational during the government shutdown.

A Mercer study shows companies expect to bump up their budgets for health benefits for 2014 by 4.8 percent.

Questioned about whether shutting down the government was a good strategy to block the PPACA, respondents decisively said "no."