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Open Enrollment Prep: Identify Workers’ Needs, Consider Costs to Plan Benefits

InterWest Insurance Services

Provide employees with a breakdown of medical and pharmaceutical cost increases to avoid sticker shock. This is especially true if you are making changes to cost-sharing, introducing new plans, introducing a wellness plan or health savings accounts or flexible spending accounts. Get an early start If your plan year starts Jan.

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What employees expect from benefits packages

Business Management Daily

Outstanding pharmaceutical and/or hospitalization coverage. What an employer must offer in terms of worker’s compensation and disability varies by state, so human resources should keep tabs on requirements. Employers also may want to explore benefit plan additions such as: Flexible Spending Accounts.