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Most Employees Spend Little Time Choosing Their Health Plan

InterWest Insurance Services

A new study has found that individuals enrolled in high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) are more engaged than their traditional plan counterparts during open enrollment, spending more time on choosing plans and using employer-provided tools to help them make their choices. workers were enrolled in them.

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What Is an Employee Benefits Consultant and What Do They Do?

Fringe Benefit Analysts

As many employers and businesses are aware, employee benefits packages are very important considerations for candidates when they are being scouted by recruiters. They will also navigate employers and employees through the layered and complicated task of implementing such plans to reduce complications or errors.

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Popular virtual care options for today’s workforce

Insperity

Health insurance carrier apps Many health insurance carriers offer their own app for employees to manage their health information in one centralized location.

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Creating the “Urgent Care First” Mindset for Employee Benefits

Corporate Synergies

The cost to the employer (and often the employee) is often far less than the ER. From 2009 to 2016 (the most recent data available), the average amount that hospitals billed insurance carriers for an emergency room visit more than doubled, from $600 to $1,322. The high cost of ER care is enough to make anyone run a high temp.

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Pharmacy Benefit Costs Untenable? Choosing the Right PBM

Corporate Synergies

Choosing the right PBM (pharmacy benefit manager) can keep your members happy and your program costs under control. Employers are increasingly pulled in many directions when it comes to employee benefits, and pharmacy benefits in particular. This is no easy feat, especially as the cost of benefits increases each year.

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How to lower employee stress about health insurance

Insperity

At a high level, employees might be directed to the: HR benefits specialist Professional employer organization (PEO) service team or dedicated HR specialist (if your company outsources certain HR functions to a PEO, and the PEO provides benefits to your employees) Contact center or member services at the insurance carrier.

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Understanding the cost of employee benefits & what it means for your company

Genesis HR Solutions

Employee benefits may be expensive, but their value goes beyond a simple dollar amount. When sizing up job offers, prospective employees will absolutely be comparing your company’s benefits against those of your competitors. In this article, we’ll look at: The benefits most businesses offer.