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- Aug 4
Decoding Health Insurance Premiums: Understanding Where Your Money Goes
Do you understand what your health insurance premium is actually paying for? As healthcare premiums continue to rise, it is increasingly...
- Jul 13
Going Beyond Benefits Benchmarking with Healthcare Data
Are you focusing too much on your company’s benchmarking results? Trying to directly compete with other industry leaders could hurt the...
- Jun 7
How Self-Funding Health Plans Can Revolutionize Your Employee Benefits
How can you contain your healthcare costs without cutting your employees’ benefits? The average family premium has increased 20% since...
- May 31
How Underperforming Doctors Affect Benefits Costs and How to Fix It
How is doctor performance affecting your benefits plans costs? Employers can expect employee healthcare costs to increase by 6.5% in...
- May 16
The Race to Control Healthcare Costs: Using Data to Your Advantage
Is your business feeling the impact of rising healthcare costs? A recent study conducted by Mercer showed that the total health benefits...
- Apr 10
Self-Funding vs. Fully-Insured: Where Do I Start?
According to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation Study, employer-sponsored insurance plans covered almost 159 million nonelderly people in...
- Mar 2
Common Questions Your Healthcare Data Can Answer
Are you leveraging medical and pharmacy claims data to answer key questions about plan utilization? Using claims data to your advantage...
- Feb 8
Elevate Your Employee Benefits Communication Strategy in 2023
Are you communicating your benefits to employees beyond open enrollment season? And, are your communications engaging and effective? Many...
- Dec 27, 2022
2023 Employee Benefits Trends
The competition for top talent remains fierce as we approach the new year. To keep up, it’s important that your company builds an...
- Dec 5, 2022
Drive Benefits Engagement Among Your Gen Z Workers
Born between 1997 and 2012, Generation Z (Gen Z) is the youngest subset of employees currently entering the workforce. According to the...
- Sep 28, 2022
The Benefits of Building a Positive Company Culture
Is your company focusing on building a positive work environment for your employees? Fostering a positive culture increases employee...
- Jun 21, 2022
Best Practices for New Employee Onboarding
Do you have the right tools and processes in place to set new employees up for success? The growing popularity of fully-remote and hybrid...
- May 20, 2022
Top Non-Medical Benefits You Should Offer Employees
60% of employees would like their employer to provide a wider mix of non-medical benefits that they can choose to purchase on their own....
- Apr 19, 2022
Pros and Cons of Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs)
Has your organization considered using a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) to streamline benefits administration? Before looking...
- Apr 12, 2022
Are Limited-Day Medical Plans Too Good to be True?
As a business owner, you are constantly being bombarded with emails promising amazing deals, cost savings, and more ways to increase...
- Mar 10, 2022
5 Employee Retention Strategies
Does your business have strategies in place to keep employees happy and motivated? The estimated cost of replacing an employee is as much...
- Jan 14, 2022
5 Employee Winter Wellness Tips
Colder and shorter days can have employees feeling stressed and unmotivated, impacting employee productivity and wellness. To help your...
- Dec 17, 2021
Five Employee Benefits Trends for 2022
As a result of COVID-19, priorities of employees have shifted significantly, resulting in a greater emphasis on the benefits offered by...
- Nov 4, 2021
Best Practices for Communicating Benefits to a Remote Workforce
Nearly a third of employees think their employer’s benefits communications are difficult to understand. Without clear communication,...
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