Rising health insurance costs and pandemic fatigue have coupled together to create unique challenges for higher education institutions—particularly in relation to employee benefits. Benefit teams are tasked with building robust benefit packages that protect employees’...
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A Deep Dive into MyHealthMath Client Analytics
Ask an MHM Expert: Ian Liphart, Data Analyst MyHealthMath (MHM) has unique reporting capabilities for employers, which reveal specific opportunities for them to enhance their benefit packages. We dive into how...
Eight Tips When Talking With Employees About Their Personal Medical Needs
Ask an MHM Expert: Implementation Specialist Becca Lovett, licensed and certified Speech Language Pathologist Health benefit professionals often engage in sensitive conversations with employees about their personal medical needs and concerns. These conversations...
Switching to Self-Funded Insurance? Here’s How Decision Support Can Help
Between 2000 and 2020, the percent of employees covered by self-funded plans increased from 49 to 64 percent. This reflects an enormous shift in employers moving to self-funded plans—where the employer takes on the cost of some or most benefit claims. Employers are...
How Decision Support Aids Plan Design and Benefit Discussions
Along with helping employees choose their benefits, decision support can reveal unique opportunities to enhance benefit packages. In today’s competitive job market, these insights can make all the difference for employers looking to stand out from their...
Why Benefit Decision Support Is a Must for New Hires
Benefit decision support helps HR teams simplify one of the most overwhelming parts of the new hire process: choosing a health plan. Decision support helps employees get the coverage they need, saves them money on rising healthcare costs, and reduces the stress that...
Seven Ways to Get More from Health Plan Decision Support
Decision support helps employees choose the right benefits for their specific needs. But it’s only valuable if people use it and trust the guidance. If your open enrollment is behind you, it’s time to pause, consider how things went, and look for opportunities to...
The Future of Benefit Decision Support: Five Findings from Aflac’s Workforces Report Give Clues to What’s Ahead
As of 2019, over half of employers offered tools to help employees choose a health plan. Two years and a global pandemic later, decision support tools have only become more effective with new data-driven and personalized technologies. As we move into 2022, their...
What’s the True Value of Health Plan Decision Support?
Hint: It’s not all about the prospective savings Choosing between different health plan options is too hard. There are so many different pieces to consider—premiums and deductible, copays and coinsurance, HSAs and FSAs, the list goes on. It’s no wonder then that most...