Digital distribution

Celent finds that U.S. and UK consumers are willing to share data about themselves under the right circumstances.

Esther Lee previously has held senior positions with AT&T, RSCG and Coca-Cola.

Options provide personalized healthcare experience; plans include free access to mobile apps, resources and tools designed help participants to make informed decisions.

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.

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.