NAHU heads to New Orleans

Benefits lawyers will also talk about strategies for handling U.S. Department of Labor audit letters and how the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) plan fiduciary standards apply to health plan standards.

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NAHU leaders have been working to educate members about the complicated legal rules that apply to any efforts by agents and brokers to talk about compensation levels and related matters, but attendees will clearly be thinking about concerns about how interested the big health insurers still are in the off-exchange commercial health insurance market, pressure on commissions, rumors of health insurer mergers and acquisitions, and speculation about why UnitedHealth Group Inc. (NYSE:UNH) is leaving the insurers’ biggest trade group, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP).

At press time, the only sponsor at the gold level was Humana Inc. (NYSE:HUM). And the only insurance company sponsor at the next level, the crystal level, was Aflac Inc. (NYSE:AFL). Other insurance company sponsors include Pan American Life, Mutual of Omaha, Colonial Life and HCC Medical.

PPACA uses tax credits to help people pay for health coverage, and one of the event’s bronze-level sponsors is Liberty Tax Service.

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