5 ways employers can leverage tech during open enrollment

Technology continues to reshape how employers select and offer healthcare benefits to employees, putting access to information at our fingertips and creating a more seamless and interactive healthcare experience. At the same time, these advances may help employees become savvier users of healthcare, helping simplify and personalize their journey toward health and, in the process, help curb costs for employers.

The revolution can be important to remember during open enrollment, which occurs during the fall, when millions of Americans select or switch their health benefits for 2019. With that in mind, here are five tips employers should be aware of during open enrollment and year-round.

Why open enrollment should be more than a once-a-year campaign

Progyny CHRO Cass Pratt shares practical ways employers can help employees understand their benefits and turn open enrollment into a year-round conversation.

By Jimmy Nesbitt

Reporter

Employee Benefits News

September 30

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Helping employees select the right healthcare during open enrollment

Employers should educate staff on the nuances of every coverage option, advises Benefitbay CEO, ranging from coinsurance to coverage tiers, networks, “incumbent bias,” and more.