Open enrollment is where your benefits strategy meets reality. Even the smartest plan falls short if employees don’t understand it or don’t value it. Here’s how clear communication, real engagement and a well-tested HRIS setup can turn enrollment from chaotic to smooth.
Renewal season is about more than negotiating the lowest possible increase. As fiduciary expectations for employer-sponsored health and welfare plans continue to evolve, HR leaders and benefits committees need a process that is prudent, participant-focused, and defensible. Learn more about fiduciary discipline in this article.
Renewal season is here, and for many employers it arrives as a single number and a deadline. The carrier proposes an increase, the broker passes it along, and the business is asked to sign. If that is the whole conversation, you are not seeing your renewal. You are only seeing the bill.
The Kirsch Group, a trusted advisor to employers seeking strategic and objective guidance in employee benefits, is pleased to announce the expansion of its consulting services to include Independent Broker Request for Proposal (RFP) Management and Independent Fiduciary Oversight Advisory Services.
If your last renewal meeting felt like bad news that everyone had to absorb, that is not a sign your team failed. It is a sign the tool on the table was not built for strategy. Learn how a the Plan Grader can reframe the converstion.
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