Employee Benefits

Strategy Development & Plan Design

• Strategic planning, cost management and collective bargaining

• Aligning benefit plans and policies with human resource and business objectives

• Health & welfare consulting, including flexible benefit plan development, integrated disability management, paid time-off, renewal rate analysis for self-funded plans, compliance, nondiscrimination testing, and reporting and disclosure

• Claims payment auditing and analysis

Benefit Plan Evaluation & Management

• Vendor selection

• Network access analysis including specialty networks

• Health plan report cards

• Vendor implementation and renewal, including renewal negotiations

• Ongoing plan management, including contract administration, periodic reporting, on-site reviews, and performance standards and guarantees

Financial Analysis

• Experience monitoring

• Vendor renewals

• Reserving, accruals, and rate and contribution setting

• Actuarial measurement and forecasting, including retiree health & welfare benefit obligations and financial modeling guarantees