by Bret Brummitt | Sep 17, 2023 | Employee Benefits, Health Insurance, Plan Design
How Can an Advocacy Service Help Your Employees? Did you know health advocacy is a thing? There are many different ways we can all use a little help when it comes to using our insurance benefits or just simply navigating the overly complex healthcare system in...
by Bret Brummitt | Sep 14, 2023 | Employee Benefits, Plan Design, Plan Design, TeleHealth
Measuring Success How do you define success for your benefits plan? How often do you clearly express your expectations? Do you start a conversation with “I believe” or “I know that”? Here’s the problem: Preparing for an insurance renewal is hard. Preparing to talk...
by Bret Brummitt | Sep 8, 2023 | Employee Benefits, Health Insurance, Plan Design
What Didn’t You Accomplish Last Year? You say you had great intentions to launch a wellness plan? Oh, maybe that was a 401(k) or Profit-Sharing plan? Oops, I guess I didn’t hear that right–you just wanted to launch a Flexible Spending Plan? The...
by The Lawyers | Jun 14, 2023 | Compliance, Employee Benefits, Health Insurance, Plan Design
Compliance Alert: “Strong warning” – Fixed indemnity plans cannot be used to avoid taxation Over the past several years, the employer-plan marketplace has seen a rise in “fixed-indemnity wellness policies,” which promise to help both employers and...
by Bret Brummitt | Sep 8, 2022 | 30 for 30, Employee Benefits, Health Insurance, Health Rosetta, Pharmacy, Plan Design, Plan Design
Tip # 25: Become well versed in Cost Containment Strategies Strategic decisions are not made on a spreadsheet when there are factors in the real world that influence cost, quality, and access to health care. There are a plethora of cost containment vendors in...
by Bret Brummitt | Sep 7, 2022 | 30 for 30, Data Analytics, Health Insurance, Plan Design, Plan Design
Should you Explore a Self-Insured or Level-Funded option instead of Fully-Insured? The simple answer is yes. You owe it to yourself and your company to make sure that you explore all options. What you may find surprising is that this may actually be a really...
