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The rate of change is accelerating for demographics, technology and customer expectations.

A new analysis from Aon Hewitt, the National Business Group on Health and The Futures Company sheds light on perspectives, behaviors and attitudes toward health and wellness.

Significant challenges stand between current lead-referral business models and potential role as value-added deal closers, according to Celent report.

INN celebrated its Women in Insurance Leadership award winners at a celebration in Chicago on October 20 and 21.

Stewart served as the institute’s president for 15 years and is credited with transforming it from a small PR firm into a premier insurance reference point for journalists, academics and policymakers.

Consumer operated and oriented plans have given some commercial carriers a run for their money in parts of the HIX marketplace, but are running into some of the same systemic obstacles that have dogged for-profit plans.

The changes, which also include requirements for insurers on the transparency of their rate increases, are open to public comment.

The health department acknowledged Nov. 20 that it had double-counted about 393,000 people in dental plans when it announced that 7.3 million Americans were enrolled in August.

Republican leaders in Congress said the executive action was beyond the president’s power, and some state officials have threatened to sue.

The accurate number with full health-care plans is 6.7 million as of Oct. 15, says a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.