Employee Benefits
We provide a wide range of comprehensive services to our clients to help them optimize their employee benefits offerings.
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At Bryson, we pride ourselves on creating strong, lasting relationships with both our clients and our carriers alike. Our ability to leverage our carrier relationships, with intimate knowledge of our clients’ benefits strategies, is the key to a successful renewal process.
What We Provide
LONG-TERM STRATEGY AND PLANNING
We partner with you to find solutions for your immediate problems, identify concerns you have for the future, and forecast for the years ahead, considering your goals and expectations.
Negotiation/ Leverage
We leverage our relationship with our carrier partners to negotiate on your behalf to obtain the best pricing and benefits available to you.
HRIS
Bryson will work with you to find the most optimal company-branded HR portal with the ability to post and share documents, provide access to benefit plan and risk management program surveys, and connect clients with peers from across the country to network and share resources.
Legislative Compliance
The insurance industry is ever-changing, and Bryson continues to dive into the complexities of compliance, partnering closely with the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA), Professionals in Human Resources Association (PIHRA), and National Association of Underwriters (NAHU) to provide the most innovative guidance possible.
Claims Support & Services
Our knowledgeable staff will assist your HR Team and your employees in both simple and complex claims issues, becoming their advocate and their voice. This includes appeals to carriers and the Department of Insurance if necessary.
Bilingual Staff & Support
We offer Spanish speaking staff to provide information for your bilingual employees, along all other languages as needed.
Benefits Booklets
Our clients find our customized benefits booklets are not only a great reference tool for their current employees, but also a great tool for attracting new employees.
COBRA Transition
Our individual specialist will work with your employees who are transitioning to COBRA or who are on COBRA to investigate other options for insurance coverage.
Ongoing Education for Employees
During the year we provide ongoing education to your employees about their benefits and how best to use them through our lunch & learns and health fairs.
COBRA Administration
As our promise to you, we will find the most optimal COBRA administration provider for your company. We work with multiple administrators and will align you with the one that best suits your needs.
Medicare Transition
Our individual specialist will work with your employees who become Medicare eligible to find options such as Medicare Supplement plans to save them substantial costs while being able to access their Medicare benefits.
Open Enrollment Meetings & Materials
Your Bryson account manager will handle open enrollment meetings from start to finish at one or multiple locations. We provide customized packets for your employees and serve as a back-up for your HR team with questions regarding offerings.
Renewal Process
At Bryson, we pride ourselves on creating strong, lasting relationships with both our clients and our carriers alike. Our ability to leverage our carrier relationships, with intimate knowledge of our clients’ benefits strategies, is the key to a successful renewal process.
The Key Components to the Renewal Process are as Follows:
Discovery
In-depth meetings with our clients to discuss past successes and how they apply to future strategies for risk tolerance, financial, and human capital achievement. The company’s current and renewal premiums are evaluated, and any changes in goals, demographics, and utilization are taken into consideration when submitting for competitive bidding.
Accountability Timelines
Once we have established a benefits strategy with our client, we create a customized timeline covering every aspect from RFP preparation through the implementation process to ensure we are meeting expectations and communicating successes and failures along the way, with each team member assigned personal accountability deliverables and objectives.
Thoughtful Improvement
The Bryson team analyzes high-cost claims, prescription drug utilization, and medical condition prevalence. Components for improvement are identified and addressed with education at the appropriate levels. We focus on wellness and benefit education to help lower and maintain claims.
Diligent Negotiations
These are handled by Bryson in order to provide the highest quality of benefits for the lowest cost to our client by utilizing quantitative data and engaging with key medical carriers to tactically explore, or uniquely develop, viable options to achieve the company’s goals. With our thorough benchmarking to establish market conditions, we evaluate and negotiate carrier offerings to best align with the strategic plan.
Consistent Due Diligence Reports
A detailed overview of current benefits and costs, along with recommended renewal cost saving strategies for our clients, are delivered by Bryson in a clear, concise presentation on an annual basis. Additionally, we leverage industry trends, legislative change, and overall market conditions to project changes in plan structure and cost.