Benefitfocus

During open enrollment, It's not necessarily a bad thing for employees to have questions. But do you have the time and resources to handle all of them? With a dedicated employee benefits support center, you can give employees reliable answers to their questions without putting unnecessary strain on your company's benefits team.

No matter where your organization falls on the spectrum of ICHRA readiness, it’s critical to factor in how the right technology partner can set you up for success and sharpen your competitive edge. Here, we share some considerations.

Creating a strategic plan for fulfilling your fiduciary responsibility as a plan sponsor is intended to help you control the cost of health care, improve the relevance of coverage you offer, help to manage risk and root out wasteful spending and fraud. Download this checklist of questions to consider while devising a plan to manage your fiduciary responsibilities.

Benefits administrators have enough to keep track of. That's why we've put a comprehensive list of ever-changing plan details like annual contribution limits, income thresholds and maximum payment limits into one handy resource. Whether you're checking on limits for HSAs, HDHPs, 401(k)s or other employee benefit plans, this infographic tells you what you need to know.

It’s no secret that engaged employees are more energized about their work, but effectively measuring employee engagement is a different story. Here, we will focus on measuring employee engagement with benefits communication. Because if employees aren’t reading, watching or otherwise interacting with your communications, then you can bet they aren’t engaging with the benefits you’re pointing them to.

At long last, the final Mental Health Parity regulations were released on September 9, more than a year after initial release. Here, Chris Condeluci takes a look at what they could mean for the employer, labor and insurance carrier communities.

Read our latest case study to learn about how working with Benefitfocus has enabled Milliken & Company to chart the future, with strategic support and planning based on proven best practices.

While the holidays are joyful for many, they can also be stressful. Luckily, HR teams can stress (get it?) the importance of stress management. Here's a handy plan to help you run an employee benefits engagement campaign on the topic of stress awareness.

In case you missed it: As a broker, being able to support your employer groups to build, administer and enable an outstanding benefits experience despite cost and complexity challenges can be a huge differentiator. This article explains what service excellence means in benefits administration — and how brokers can help employers achieve and maintain it with the right partners.

Outsourcing some of your benefits administration functions to a dedicated team of experts is a smart way to expand the capabilities of your benefits budget, without overextending your in-house team or adding new positions. To get the most out of a relationship like this, benefits leaders must prioritize service excellence when considering and comparing benefits administration vendors. Download this guide to help understand what “service excellence” means, how to assess the right service and support model for your organization, and more.