From technological innovators to compliance experts, plan design specialists to caring mentors, the 20 women chosen by EBAs editors to receive our inaugural Most Influential Women in Benefit Advising award are not only making extraordinary contributions to the field overall, but are also elevating the status of all women in the profession in the process.
- Client needs to agree to our separate fee for the group health plan consulting and fee needs to be collected as separate line item on TPA carrier billing statement. We have received lots of accommodation on this from the TPAs/carriers because it gets our fee out of their retention. I Hope this willingness to work together continues.
- We are not well suited or equipped as a business to be in the collection business.
- Our consulting fee needs to be presented to the client and agreed upon based on their needs and services very early in the client engagement and marketing conversations.
