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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.

Individual plan members now can pay monthly premiums at retail locations.

Benefitfocus software helps 1500-plus employees to choose from available plans.

Insurers should look to revisit the roots of the insurance process.

The new platform is based on Backbase’s customer experience platform designed to help insurers deliver customer-centric, digital services.

Enrollments and the lack of widespread technological glitches on the website were cause for celebration within the Obama administration.

Big data and analytics are taking the P&C sector by storm. Strategy Meets Action’s report shows which tools and techniques are getting the most traction.

With no access to online enrollment, GAO states that employers had to enroll through the help of agents and brokers or directly through issuers.