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5 Ways for Healthcare Companies to Provide Employee Insurance

Kara Reynolds
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Health insurance is one of the greatest benefits you can offer your employees. As a healthcare company, your employees expect you to provide some coverage.

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1. Educate Yourself About Insurance Options2. Offer Well-Being Programs3. Find Ways to Decrease Pharmacy Costs4. Evaluate Your Insurance Plan5. Work with a Concierge ServiceImportance of Providing Adequate Insurance for EmployeesProviding Adequate Insurance

With the pandemic, healthcare has become an increasingly valuable aspect of people?s lives. More and more people are taking their health seriously. This means that you need to remain competitive as a company. Here are five ways for healthcare companies to provide adequate insurance for their employees.

1. Educate Yourself About Insurance Options

Before choosing a health insurance option for your employees, you have to educate yourself about all possible options. There are typically group, individual and small business insurances. You?ll likely choose a group insurance option as a healthcare professional with employees, but it?s still good to be aware of your options to find what?s best for your company.

Here are some of the options of health insurance for businesses:

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  • Group health insurance: This plan will provide coverage for all of your eligible employees. A popular method is through the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP).
  • Health reimbursement arrangements: This is another group health option that allows you to help your employees pay for medical costs.
  • Health savings account: This offers tax advantages to your company.
  • Short-term health insurance: These are more for employees who may be switching jobs and need a short-term plan for that in-between period.
  • Self-insured: You can also choose to self-fund your health insurance for employees. This ensures you save money, and you only have to pay for what you use.

Research these more fully to understand which health insurance option is best for your company.

2. Offer Well-Being Programs

The upcoming workforce includes a lot of Generation Z and Millennials advancing their careers. As an employer, you want to offer them a healthy workplace all around, considering their physical, emotional, financial and social health.

Along with the health insurance plan, try to offer a well-being program. These will help get your employees on track with their financial and health-related goals. Offering wellness programs can boost your company?s overall productivity. Plus, it puts your employees? health first. In conjunction with a solid health insurance plan, your company will be at its happiest and healthiest.

3. Find Ways to Decrease Pharmacy Costs

Pharmacy costs can be a burden for some people, and they?ve increased by about 5% in the past year. In the health insurance plan that you choose for your employees, research and find ways to decrease pharmacy costs to meet their needs adequately. Pharmacy benefit costs continue to rise, and some of the best employers find ways to reduce drug expenses.

One way to do this is by changing your coverage from hospitals to a doctor?s office. A more specialized doctor?s office will often offer pharmaceuticals at a lower price or provide ways to decrease those costs.

4. Evaluate Your Insurance Plan

One of the best ways to ensure you?re providing adequate insurance for your employees is to evaluate your current insurance plan if you have one. If not, crowd search and see what kinds of plans your employees would want you to offer. Using data from your own employees can significantly impact what you decide for your insurance plan.

Plus, if you listen to them and meet their needs, they?ll be more likely to stay with your company and may even be more productive. A company?s health care program is integral to the employee environment, and by asking about their needs or wants, they see that you care for their health and well-being.

5. Work with a Concierge Service

Finally, you can choose to work with a concierge or a broker service. They know all of the ins and outs of health insurance and can help guide you to the best health insurance plan to meet your employee?s needs.

Health insurance can get confusing. You want to ensure you can provide something beneficial for all of your employees. Working with a professional may ease some of that confusion, and they work incredibly well with smaller to mid-sized businesses.

Importance of Providing Adequate Insurance for Employees

As you know, health insurance offers protection to your employees if they or someone in their family needs financial assistance with costs associated with an injury or sickness. Many Americans get their health insurance through their employers or a spouse?s employers. As a healthcare professional and business owner, it?s essential to provide adequate insurance for your employees.

Below are some reasons why you should ensure you?re offering what your employees need:

  • Tax advantages: When you offer health insurance, you can gain tax advantages. It deducts your portion of the contribution for your plan because you can file it as a business expense.
  • Increased competition: The better your health insurance plan, the more likely your employees will stay with you. Businesses that offer health insurance as an employee benefit are more attractive, too, meaning you?ll gain great employees.
  • Improved employee productivity: A study found that over half of employees offered health insurance are more productive. Additionally, it allows employees to get routine health checkups, leading to more accomplishments at work because they don?t have to worry about their health.
  • Reduced operational costs: You can generally keep operating costs a bit lower when you offer health insurance and other benefits. The employees will take a lower salary if it means they can get good health insurance.
  • Simple to do: It?s relatively simple to offer health insurance. An insurance advisor can guide you to the right plan for you and your employees.
  • Increased access to doctors and hospitals: Finally, offering health insurance to your employees gives you all increased access to doctors and hospitals. If you had an individual plan, you wouldn?t have as many providers to choose from.

Ensure you?re providing adequate insurance for your employees. It will benefit both you and them when they can access the care they need.

Providing Adequate Insurance

Health insurance is a significant benefit for your employees. Do what you can to make sure they have the coverage they need.

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