Benefits Think 4 red flags to look for when selecting an insurance broker
The decision can have a significant impact on the cost and quality of a full benefits plan.
Brian Freeman
Mployer Advisor
Healthcare benefits
4 strategies to make open enrollment better
Making open enrollment easier on (and better for) employees doesn’t have to feel like a huge task. These small steps can make a big difference.
Open enrollment needs a makeover. Here’s how to boost engagement and benefits utilization
To help employees truly understand their benefits, the once-a-year event needs to become a yearlong conversation in the workplace.
Benefits Think Steps employers can take to solve health plan inequities
Small changes can have big impacts. Here’s how to understand your employees and start helping them access better, more affordable care.
Keith McNeil
Arrow Benefits Group
California law aims to strengthen access to mental health services
A California law requires that mental health and substance abuse patients be offered return appointments no more than 10 days after a previous session, unless their provider OKs less frequent visits.
Benefits Think To solve inequity in healthcare, we must first understand it
Advisers can play a critical role in helping employers better serve their entire teams.
Keith McNeil
Arrow Benefits Group
Long story short: It’s time to encourage employees to use up their PTO
Unused PTO is a burden on employee mental health and an employer’s bottom line. Here are what top companies are doing to encourage time off.
Post-pandemic anxiety is plaguing employees as they return to work
A therapist discusses the impact post-COVID anxiety is having on your employees.
What are your options when you lose your employer-provided health insurance? An adviser weighs in
Although most employees take part in employer-sponsored plans when they have them, very few are educated on what to do once it’s gone.
Family planning benefits go global with new Maven partnership
Maven, the largest virtual clinic for women’s and family health, is partnering with fertility services company, The Fertility Partners, to expand access to family-building benefits.
Benefits Think 4 ways to design a diverse and inclusive healthcare plan
The design and delivery of an inclusive health plan is still a relatively new concept and something many employers are learning how to successfully navigate.
Marcus Thygeson
Bind Benefits
More PTO and better benefits: How 8 HR leaders are supporting mental health needs
Ahead of World Mental Health Day, experts and HR execs shared what works when it comes to supporting the well-being of their workforce.
Benefits Think What role do advisers play in finding solutions to rising healthcare costs?
It’s time our community does a little soul-searching.
Kim Eckelbarger
ARCW Leavitt Insurance
Article 5 Reasons to Include Vision Care in a Modern Benefits Program
Not only can a comprehensive eye exam uncover chronic health conditions, but vision care can reduce overall healthcare costs, improve employee productivity, and lower turnover rates. And employees increasingly want vision care as part of their benefits program. For the top five reasons why you should include vision care in a modern benefits program, click here.
Class dismissed: Too much stress is driving teachers to rethink their profession
Teachers are being pushed to their emotional breaking points as the pandemic continues to cause challenges in the classroom.
As gig work increases, ICHRAs might be the future of healthcare benefits
Echo Health has launched a premium payment manager tool that is designed to help employers more easily adopt an ICHRA.
Employees want to manage their own health plans — this is why you should let them
In the current system, employees may be paying twice as much and getting something twice as bad.
Unexpected healthcare costs are hurting employees. This is what Lincoln Financial is doing to help
Coverage that provides claimants with a lump-sum payment can help workers with expenses that may not be included in their traditional medical insurance.
Benefits Think Employers take note: It’s a new world for diversity and mental health
Previously diversity and inclusion and mental health initiatives would live in separate corporate domains, but employers increasingly understand the inextricable link between these two issues.
Desiree Pascual
Ginger
This veterinary clinic is covering their employees’ healthcare in full
Bond Vet wants their staff to have the tools they need to combat stress, burnout and other health and wellness needs.
