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Winston Benefits is a nationally recognized provider of voluntary benefit programs to medium and large employer groups.
Getting the full picture of your employees’ benefits data puts you in a great position to make the right decisions regarding benefits and health care at your organization. Seeing the data allows you to anticipate problems during open enrollment, and email notifications help you to communicate any concerns or changes to your employees at the touch of a button. This gives you the ability to see employee data changing in real time, putting an exact snapshot of your employees’ enrollment on your radar. Observing changes in the data at strategic points throughout the year and over the course of time allows you to make informed, future-facing decisions regarding employee communication, benefits spending and other key issues that affect employee benefits administration.
Thousands of multi-employer and public employee benefit plan representatives gathered in San Diego in October for the annual International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (IFEBP) conference. The IFEBP conference offered daily panels on opioid identification, prevention, intervention and treatment. It’s important to understand the differences between opioid and alcohol addictions, the cost of therapies and treatments for opioid addiction and the crucial roles that effective intervention and therapy play in saving lives affected by the opioid crisis. The IFEBP conference devoted multiple panels to upcoming and potential legislative changes, including in child health care coverage, insurance code changes and air ambulance coverage.
Because of the staffing challenges associated with disease management centers, it’s critical to offer plans that are functional for both waged and salaried employees. Because of the nature of their work, all disease management employees should be given the option for these voluntary benefits. And because employees at disease management centers see the consequences of ill health, many are motivated to maintain their own health and wellness. Many of the staffing challenges faced by disease management centers also pose a problem when it comes to open enrollment.
Here at Winston we help our clients plan by assembling a post-open-enrollment report detailing hard data, accomplishments, ways to improve for the following year and In addition to taking notes and keeping “soft” data, it’s critical to examine the trends in your hard data. It’s possible that employees left one plan because the benefits of the other plan weren’t clear enough. Your employees’ thoughts and opinions are your greatest asset in interpreting data and preparing for next year’s open enrollment.