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Business Accounting

It’s Time to Check Up on Your Insurance Policy

Rising premiums could be a problem for businesses, but that doesn't mean companies can't provide for workers. Find out what options you have to remedy the issue.

By Steph Wagner

Building a Business

4 Steps Needed for Affordable Care Act Compliance in 2016

By Matt Straz

Building a Business

What You Need to Know About Employee Health Scorecards

By Matt Straz

Building a Business

5 Tips for Selecting the Best Health Insurance Plan

By Jennifer Fitzgerald

Building a Business

How to Map Out the Maddening World of Health Care Plans

Here are ways to help your employees choose the best health insurance options.

By Tariq Hilaly

Business News

Insurers Are Split on Obamacare Performance

While UnitedHealth said it may pull out of the unprofitable market, Aetna said its business has performed as expected and profitability could improve next year.

By Reuters

Building a Business

4 Ways to Make Open Enrollment Almost Painless

Many employers are doing better at offering benefit options than they are helping employees decide which best meet their needs.

By Matt Straz

Thought Leaders

5 Looming Obamacare Obligations Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know About

The Affordable Care Act requires complex calculations to avoid substantial penalties.

By Tor Constantino

Building a Business

How to Revamp Your Employee Benefits in 3 Steps

In the do-it-yourself, tech-heavy age of the millennials, it's time to re-think your approach to benefits.

By Veer Gidwaney

Building a Business

5 Ways to Help Employees Make the Best Use of Benefits

Ample benefits are a lure to top talent, yet research shows employees often don't take full advantage of what's offered.

By Matt Straz

Building a Business

Zenefits Rolls Out Free Software to Help Businesses Comply With Health-Care Requirements

With employers facing new Affordable Care Act reporting requirements in 2016, one human-resources tech company is automating the process.

By Catherine Clifford

Thought Leaders

The Top 4 Ways to Engage Your Employees in Their Own Healthcare

With costs rising precariously, employees must become more savvy consumers. Employers can help.

By Steve Auerbach

Thought Leaders

5 Ways to Make Shopping for Health Insurance Easier

The Affordable Care Act has made it possible for smaller businesses to offer health insurance but nothing about it is simple.

By Rick Lindquist

Building a Business

5 Inexpensive Benefits Millennials Value More Than Health Insurance

Younger workers, unsurprisingly, are less likely to demand health insurance than older workers but don't overlook their birthdays.

By Heather R. Huhman

Building a Business

Socially Responsible Small Businesses Often Grow Very Large

Doing more than the minimum for workers and the environment has paid off handsomely for many well-known businesses.

By Fran Hawthorne

Building a Business

Preparation and Follow Up Are Key to Reducing Open Enrollment Hassles

A patient communication campaign is required if every member of team is to make well-informed choices about benefits.

By Matt Straz

Building a Business

2 Big Employers Tell Gay Employees to Marry or Lose Partner Benefits

With same-sex marriage legal in most states, some employers will no longer recognize domestic partnerships for granting family benefits.

By Heather R. Huhman

Entrepreneurs

Why This Insurer Wants You to Wear a Health Tracker

Wearable tech meets rewards at a growing health insurance company.

By Matt Villano

Building a Business

3 Benefits of the Affordable Care Act Every Business Leader Needs to Know About

Obamacare is helping smaller businesses to offer competitive benefit packages that were unaffordable previously.

By Tor Constantino

Building a Business

What Employers Need to Know About the Hottest Trend In Health Insurance

Consumer-driven health plans require high deductibles but allow tax-exempt health savings plans.

By Matt Straz

Building a Business

Retail, Health Care and Sports: 3 Industries That Need Customer Love

These business must learn to make changes quickly and adapt in order to stay relevant and be successful.

By Andrew Reid

Building a Business

Oscar, the Health Insurance Startup, Now Valued at $1.5 Billion

The company has also seen triple the number of people enrolled in the last 12 months.

By Erin Griffith

Business News

Warning: Affordable Care Act Penalties Start This Year

What could noncompliance cost you? Here are seven questions -- and answers.

By Joshua Katz

Building a Business

How Small-Business Owners Can Win the Health Insurance Game

You have more options for employee coverage than you think.

By Michael Stahl

Tech

The Places Where Selfie Sticks Are Banned

From Disneyland to the Kentucky Derby, more and more venues are requiring that guests leave their selfie-taking devices at home.

By Laura Entis

Building a Business

What You Need to Know About Anthem’s Massive Data Breach

Personal information for up to 80 million current and former customers of the second largest U.S. insurer are at risk.

By Robert Hackett

Building a Business

Top 5 Challenges Facing Businesses Now

Building a team and generating the revenue to pay for growth preoccupy businesses of all sizes.

By John Rampton

Building a Business

This Health App Puts Real, Live Medical Professionals In Your Pocket

For $15 a week, Vida delivers live, one-on-one personalized medical advice from health-care pros.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Business Accounting

Will You Have to Pay an Obamacare Fine?

The deadline to sign up for an insurance plan is coming up soon. Anyone without one is subject to a fine.

By Tom Taulli

Building a Business

Riding the Ups and Downs of the Small-Business Obamacare Market

A month into the launch of the federal exchanges, small-business owners report mixed results with the program.

By Kate Rogers