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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. Offering wellness programs can boost employees’ overall health, help them lose weight or quit smoking.

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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. Offering wellness programs can boost employees’ overall health, help them lose weight or quit smoking.

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Worksite benefits: Hospital indemnity insurance and beyond

Higginbotham

Providing Hospital Indemnity Coverage (and More) as Voluntary Benefits If you’re worried that offering all of these supplemental insurance options may be too expensive, there’s good news. Second, when you offer these options as voluntary benefits , employees cover the premium costs through payroll deductions.

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How Winston Benefits’ Benefits Administration Technology Helped Update Benefits Communication and Streamline Enrollment for a Food Manufacturer

Winston Benefits

For 2017, 92 percent of employees enrolled in benefits programs, with voluntary benefit participation rising markedly. Accident insurance enrollment went up more than 20 percent; critical illness insurance enrollment rose more than 28 percent and hospital indemnity jumped 58 percent.

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4 Questions to Ask About Your Benefits Technology

Winston Benefits

If employees requested more communication or decision-support tools on your enrollment portal, they might be disappointed and discouraged if they don’t see any updates. Even just updating your enrollment booklet online and adding new FAQs can be a tremendous help to your employee population. What If We Add New Benefits?

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Voluntary Benefits Improve Employee Satisfaction and Retention

InterWest Insurance Services

As a result, many employers are increasingly turning to voluntary employee benefits, which allow them to provide valued, high-demand benefits to employees at little or no cost to the company. Voluntary benefits have been becoming more popular among employers in recent years as unemployment falls.