Enrollment

Questions coming into HR can be evaded with proactive communication if provided before open enrollment, and from a benefits planning approach, rather than once a year.

Consumers and benefits advisors who look carefully may be able to find surprising Medicare supplement insurance bargains, a rating agency says.

A recent Kaiser Permanente survey reveals that few Medicare beneficiaries are familiar with CMS's rating system.

The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America is making the benefits enrollment and administration process easier for employees and employers with the launch of a multi-carrier online enrollment platform as part of their EnrollmentWorks program.

Insurer Aetna and CVS Caremark Corp. said Monday they will offer a co-branded prescription drug benefit for seniors enrolled in the government's Medicare drug plan.

Despite lingering health reform uncertainty and a still-sluggish economy, brokers remain oddly optimistic about their own individual futures but worried about the industry.