Helping Your Employees Choose A Health Insurance Plan

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Whether your company is starting with its first open enrollment or transitioning to a new insurance provider, the process doesn’t need to be an benefits administrator's nightmare. Open communication with your employees can improve your company’s overall morale and serve as the cornerstone of a streamlined benefits process. Benefits enrollment is an excellent – and often underutilized – opportunity to reach out to your employees highlight your benefits package in a value-added manner. Use these simple guidelines to start a positive conversation with our employees about health care.

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Helping Your Employees

Choose A Plan

EFFECTIVE BENEFITS

COMMUNICATION !"# f$r

Open Communication with your employees

Can improve your company’s overall morale and serve as the cornerstone of a streamlined benefits process

Benefits enrollment is an excellent – and often underutilized –

opportunity

to reach out to your employees and highlight your

benefits package in a value-added

manner

Start a p$itive conversation with your employees about health

care

1 2 3Provide easy access

to a range of resources

Offer support Give ample time to make a decision

PROVIDE EASY ACCESS TO A RANGE

OF RESOURCES

1

Electronic information and

resources should be centrally located

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On your organization’s HR web page

Use a range of formats

!at appeal to different

t,es of learners

Offer Support AND

Team-building events

2

Information sessions to help your employees

learn about their options

Informal, low-cost “lunch- and-learn” events can be great team-building

exercises

No matter how much information you provide in advance...

There will still be numerous

questions

3 Give ample time to make a decision

3Provide at least three weeks for employees to choose a plan

Encourage employees to evaluate their healthcare spending

from last year

Communicate your enrollment deadlines clearly, early and frequently to ensure that no one feels taken by surprise

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