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Four High Deductible Health Plan Mistakes to Avoid

InterWest Insurance Services

With more than half of all private sector employees enrolled in high-deductible health plans , it’s important that employers have in place certain protocols to ensure that they are a success. That’s why training is essential to ensure that your employees understand how these plans work and how to get the most out of them.

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3 in 4 Workers Would Accept Lower-Pay for Better Benefits: Survey

InterWest Insurance Services

The main driver in workers prioritizing benefits is the rapidly rising cost of group health insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs, according to the study by Voya Financial. 51% said that high health care costs were having a major or significant impact on their ability to save for retirement.

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Hospital Indemnity Insurance a Key Voluntary Benefit

InterWest Insurance Services

The worker can use this cash benefit for any purpose, including: Deductibles. But if you have an 80-20 plan, your worker is still responsible for her deductible (averaging over $1,600), plus 20% of that cost, or over $6,000. That leaves your worker exposed to a total out-of-pocket cost of over $7,600.

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Four Ways to Ensure Your Group HDHP Will Fail

InterWest Insurance Services

With more than half of all private sector employees enrolled in high-deductible health plans , it’s important that employers have in place certain protocols to ensure that they are a success. That’s why training is essential to ensure that your employees understand how these plans work and how to get the most out of them.

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Managing Employee Healthcare Costs in 2021

Best Money Moves

What the average health insurance premium costs and changes employers are making to health benefits offerings in the new year. The ever increasing cost of healthcare combined with uncertainty about coverage, deductibles and copays keep some employees from getting the medical care they need.

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Smallest Firms See Largest Health Insurance Hikes

InterWest Insurance Services

The HDHP effect The report found that health maintenance organizations and preferred provider organizations continue to dominate the landscape in group health benefits for SMBs. While high-deductible health plan (HDHP) enrollment grew at an astounding 68% between 2021 and 2022, they only accounted for 6% of group health plan enrollment.

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How to offer health insurance as a small business

Higginbotham

You can choose to pay all or part of the premium, and you can even offer some benefits, like pet insurance , on a voluntary basis so it’s available at an affordable group rate for employees to purchase if they are interested. Voluntary benefits can be offered with little to no out-of-pocket expense to the employer.