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Employee Benefits Insurance

As an employer one of your objectives is to retain and attract quality employees, and according to the majority of surveys conducted on the subject, providing a quality employee benefit program is essential to achieving that goal. Sometimes, however, providing the quality program can be prohibitively expensive.

At Pierson & Smith, we combine our broad experience of quality employee benefit plans with strategic financial modeling in order to satisfy employees and employer. We offer a full range of insured and self-insured Medical, Dental, Life, Disability, and other ancillary plans to employees, retirees, and expatriates.

Our work is best defined by one of the following categories but frequently there is a good deal of crossover in terms of the products and services we provide.

Brokerage

  • Determine goals and needs
  • Analyze current plans and funding methods
  • Research market
  • Summarize insurance quotes and make recommendations
  • Coordinate enrollments
  • Conduct on-site meetings
  • Intervene in claims and administrative issues
  • Negotiate renewals

Consulting

  • Prepare benefits and financial benchmarking studies
  • Prepare due diligence for M&A; coordinate consolidation/divestiture of plans
  • Conduct claim audits and analysis
  • Negotiate performance guarantees
  • Evaluate available funding methods (fully insured, self-insured, captives)

Administration

  • Administer benefit plans: process enrollments, changes, terms
  • Audit bills and consolidate monthly vendor invoices
  • Provide COBRA and HIPAA administrative services
  • Administer Flexible Spending Account plans and pay claims

Communications

  • Conduct employee and management focus group surveys
  • Prepare customized enrollment materials and SPDs
  • Prepare customized on-site presentations
  • Produce benefit statements, newsletters, employee communications

For more information, please contact us.