Health Benefits - Do you have Employee Satisfactions?

It is no surprise that employees prefer to have some choice when it comes to health benefits. However, it can be daunting for employers to help employees sort through benefit plan designs.

How can you improve benefit communication and employee benefit satisfaction?

Tips to simplify benefits communication

Create plans based on needs and expectations by:
Surveying employees on plan preferences, benefit expectation and needs.
Requesting feedback on current benefits to determine awareness and satisfaction level.
Using Integrated Insurance Agency associates to communicate and enroll benefits at no cost to either the employer or the employee.
Work with the carrier’s representative at Integrated Insurance Agency (888-823-1342) to identify plan usage of current benefits.
Work with your representative at Integrated to outline the employer vs. employee costs for each option, and breakdown the amount into palatable expenses.

Make a point to start early.

Several weeks before enrollment, employees should receive information on plans and benefit enrollment dates.
Provide a list of ways benefit information will be shared during the enrollment process and how they can obtain more details.
A diverse mix of communication tools can better demonstrate to the employees how benefit choices will affect their lives.
Use charts and diagrams.
Define differences in plan choices, such as voluntary options vs. partial employer-payment benefits.
Identify and explain any changes from the previous year.
Feature stories from key employee leaders in how and why they selected their plans and how it made a difference to their families.
Keep the information simple.
Provide a list of team members who employees can contact with questions or feedback.
Encourage employees to utilize the website membership after they have enrolled for benefit and claim information

Creating and implementing an effective health benefits communication program can be challenging. It requires a significant investment in time to map out communication messages and identify tools to share information with employees.

At Integrated we can take that responsibility on at no cost to you or your employees and free up the communication hassle. We have been doing this for our clients for decades.

On the positive side, the rewards for employers can be significant in terms of increased employee job satisfaction, higher productivity and performance. In addition, an associate from Integrated Insurance Agency can help alleviate much of this work load.

Associate focus this Month

Lori Hudzinski – ‘Mama Bear’

www.lhudzinski.myiiagent.com

Integrity is important to Lori and places your needs before her own. If she does not know the answer, she is able to find the right answer for you with Integrated Insurance Agency’s 27 years of experience and resources.

Lori is a life-long learner. She is a wife of 26 years. She is a mother of five and grandmother of two. This is how she was nicknamed ‘Mama Bear’.

In addition, she has been a part of her family’s four- generation dairy farm in the Yale area. She is also mission minded in helping others here at home and children in the Philippines.

Just as important, she also wants to help you in selecting the best health benefits for protecting you and your family.