Running Your Business
Insights on how to run an insurance agency, along with coverage of agency management and agency technology news.
Plan Administrator: Keep Pension, Health Data Rules the Same
By Allison BellThe U.S. Labor Department should try to make the regulations governing the security of information at retirement plans and health benefits plans as similar as possible, and leave room for technology changes.
September 22, 2011
IRS Establishes Church Plan ProceduresChurch plans will have to notify plan participants before asking the Internal Revenue Service to provide private letter rulings confirming the plans' status.
September 22, 2011
Feds: LTC Enrollment Rises 20%About 98% of the federal employees and dependents who signed up for the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program coverage last year will be keeping their coverage this year.
September 22, 2011
Is your business on social media overload?Don't risk alienating clients with too much social media marketing.
September 22, 2011
Obama Administration Downsizes CLASS Act OfficeThe Obama administration is reassigning the workers in the office that was developing the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act long term care benefits plan.
September 21, 2011
Medicaid Planning Critic Goes to Capitol HillStephen Moses, a man who has spent years fighting the rules that let relatively affluent people qualify for Medicaid nursing home benefits, got a chance today to explain his position to members of Congress.
September 21, 2011
NAFA Hires Federal Advocacy FirmThe National Association for Fixed Annuities will be using CapCity Advocates L.L.C. to help it handle legislative and regulatory moves in Washington.
September 21, 2011
AHIMA: ICD-10 Shift Creaks to LifeU.S. health care providers are at least starting to think about planning for a move to the ICD-10-CM diagnostic coding system.