SERVICES

Financial Activities

  • Experience-rate renewals and prospects
  • Negotiate renewals
  • Set premium-equivalents for self-funded plans
  • Generate cost, plan design and carrier comparisons
  • Develop annual benefits budgets
  • Design employee contribution schedules
  • Monitor experience reports
  • Analyze healthcare utilization and recommend strategies to reduce costs
  • Work to resolve carrier billing, administration and claim problems

Marketing & Plan Implementation

  • Vendor selection and management
  • Design/respond to bid specifications
  • Evaluate/prepare carrier proposals
  • Coordinate coverage with third-party administrators and stoploss carriers
  • Design and manage implementation schedules for new benefits plans and carriers

Employee Communications & Assistance

  • Prepare written open enrollment communications
  • Conduct employee benefit meeting
  • Conduct employee surveys and develop benefit package recommendations to meet employees' perceived needs
  • Assist employees who have claims, benefit and/or enrollment questions or problems

Additional Services

  • Spearhead the employee benefit transition planning for mergers and acquisitions
  • Train underwriters, sales staff, and account managers on underwriting principles
  • Audit client files to assure adherence to corporate standards and minimize errors-and-omissions insurance liability
  • Review insurance contracts, SPDs, plan documents, and amendments

Lines of Coverage

  • My expertise includes marketing, implementing, renewing and servicing virtually all lines of coverage and administrative services for both fully-insured and self-funded plans.