America's Benefit Specialist October 2023

October 2023

YOUR INDUSTRY 3

MEDICARE MATTERS 32 How Agents and Brokers Can Advance Health Equity YOUR SALES 38 Empowering Employers: How Self-Funding Leads to Lower Healthcare Costs By Bob Love 40 Voluntary Disruption Decoding the Barbie Movie through the Lens of a Benefits

Benefit Professionals Are Key to Supporting the Employer Response to the National Mental Health Crisis By Christine Cooper

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Noteworthy

12 Mergers and Acquisitions

14 What to Ask if You Are Considering Buying

Open Enrollment By Eric Silverman

Another Agent’s Business By Dan Mangus

YOUR ASSOCIATION 42 Welcome to NABIP

17 Product News

23 Gag-Clause Prohibition

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Attestation Requirements: Are Your Clients Ready to Comply? By Dorothy Cociu

43 CPC Quiz

46 NABIP’s Board of Trustees

28 Industry Events

47 Your NABIP Staff

29 People on the Move

48 Association Events

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