BenefitsPRO-Perspectives podcast

Selecting the Best Medicare Supplement Insurance Plan for Your Clients

The Importance of a 'Members First' Mindset

Beyond the Premium: What Matters Most with Medicare Part D

Excerpts from: Leading the Way to Employee Physical, Financial and Total Wellbeing

How total rewards programs improve benefits packages for employees

With employee recruitment and retention still at the top of the agenda for many organizations, total rewards programs can help HR and benefits professionals deliver a better worker experience.

Principal’s Amy Friedrich on Paid Income Protection

Imagine360 to Make Health Care Affordable

What are YOUR answers for a healthy and resilient workforce?: Building a Wellness Champion Network

What are YOUR answers for a healthy and resilient workforce?: A Culture of Well-being in Action

Keeping employees both happy and healthy is a difficult task. To help workers, many organizations have shifted their focus from preventative care to creating a culture of well-being that focuses more on ensuring employees have what they need to manage stress, create time for self-care and develop tools for resilience. In this second episode of a new podcast series sponsored by LabCorp, What Are Your Answers for a Healthy and Resilient Workforce?, Dr. Richard Safeer, Chief Medical Dire...

How to Ensure a Critical Work Life Balance for Parents

In this episode of the Perspectives podcast we’ll hear highlights from the presentation How to Ensure a Critical Work Life Balance for Parents. In this episode of the Perspectives podcast, sponsored by Rethink Care and hosted on BenefitsPRO, we’ll hear highlights from the Aug. 25 webcast, How to Ensure a Critical Work Life Balance for Parents. For many organizations, work-life balance is a common problem, especially for parents. According to a FlexJobs survey, 53% of working mothers and ...

What are YOUR answers for a healthy and resilient workforce?: Fresh Approaches to Employee Health and Wellbeing

Since the pandemic, the twin concerns of employee health and wellbeing have been on the minds of human resources executives and benefits directors as they look to balance the needs of remote work and the flexibility that the workforce demands. In the first episode of a new podcast series sponsored by LabCorp, What Are Your Answers for a Healthy and Resilient Workforce, Emily Roberts, Leader of Client Success at Labcorp Employer Services and Dr. Richard Safeer, Chief Medical Director, Emplo...

Excerpts from Beyond the Dollar: Why Fertility Benefits Are About More Than Financial Support

Excerpts from The Great Reimagining: Your Opportunity to Reframe the Value of Benefit Spending and Savings Accounts

In this episode of the Perspectives podcast we’ll hear highlights from the presentation The Great Reimagining: Your Opportunity to Reframe the Value of Benefit Spending and Savings Accounts. In this episode of the Perspectives podcast, sponsored by UMB Healthcare and hosted on Benefits Pro, we’ll hear highlights from the May 11 presentation, The Great Reimagining: Your Opportunity to Reframe the Value of Benefit Spending and Savings Accounts. As the US returns to pre-pandemic behavior, e...

Excerpts from "Why Fertility Benefits That Cover All Genders Are a Must-Have for 2022"

Helping Employers Build Better–and More Personalized–Benefits

Health care should not be one size fits all.   That’s according to Dr. Erich Huang, Onduo’s Chief Science and Innovation Officer. Huang has a long career in academic medicine at Duke University, and now spearheads clinical evidence generating programs and research at the virtual care company, which is based in Newton, Mass.   Huang, who is a Ph.D. and a medical doctor, notes that in today’s healthcare environment, there is little room for personalization. But he and his team at Onduo...

Target-Date Funds in 401(k)s: What Plan Sponsors Need to Know

Blending Active and Passive Management in Pursuit of Retirement Goals

When Auto Insurance Tech Gets the Client Experience Right

Increased Benefits Choices Brings Complexity, Challenges

Healthcare Benefits Tech Insufficient? Service Providers Need to Step Up

Experts Explain How to Find the Best Benefits Platform Solution

How Vision Care Helps Avoid Future Healthcare-Related Costs

Matching Retirement Needs to Potential Solutions

Offering Vision Benefits Your Employees Want and Use

Vision care’s critical role in engaging and empowering employees

Eyes in Overdrive: Pandemic Screen Time and Eye Health

Catastrophic Risk Protection in a Post-Pandemic World

Highlights from the August 25 webcast “Catastrophic Risk Protection in a Post-Pandemic World.” This event featured, both from HM Insurance Group, Eric Berg, Sr. Vice President, Reinsurance, Partnerships and Operations; and Greg Sullivan, Sr. Vice President, Business Enablement.   The webcast can be found in its entirety on demand at https://www.benefitspro.com/2021/07/23/catastrophic-risk-protection-in-a-post-pandemic-world/  

Excerpts from Today’s Political Landscape & The Powerful Possibilities of HSAs

Highlights from the August 4 webcast “Today’s Political Landscape & The Powerful Possibilities of HSAs.” This event featured Kevin McKechnie, Executive Director of Health Savings Account & Senior Vice President at the American Bankers Association, and Phil Mason, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer & Director Healthcare Services at UMB.

Vision Care’s Role in Modernizing Benefits as Workplaces Change

Vision Care is Not Just Eye Health, it’s Overall Health

Helping Plan Participants Achieve the Dream of a Secure Retirement

Estate Planning in the Age of Covid – and Under Possible Tax Proposals

Planning in the Age of Covid – and Under Possible Tax Proposals

Excerpts from webcast: Voluntary Benefits: Why Pet Insurance is Trending & Your Clients Should Offer It

In this episode of the Perspectives podcast, sponsored by Liberty Mutual and hosted on BenefitsPRO.com, we’ll hear highlights from the July 7th presentation titled, Voluntary Benefits: Why Pet Insurance is Trending & Your Clients Should Offer It.

Glidepaths and TDFs: Not All are Created Equally

Excerpts from How to Solve Benefits Communication Challenges

In this episode of the Perspectives podcast, sponsored by Perky and hosted on BenefitsPRO.com, we’ll hear highlights from the June 15th presentation titled, How to Solve Benefits Communication Challenges.    A challenge benefits brokers continue to face is helping clients communicate effectively with their workforce regarding available benefits.  With in-person and remote workers, new and long-term employees, a simple communication tool can clarify what is available, increase usage and i...

Reduce workplace absenteeism and health care premiums with vision coverage

According to Versant Health’s Lisa Hall and Kelly Wenrich, more employers are recognizing that offering vision benefits is a cost-effective way to reduce health-related absenteeism and health care premiums, while increasing productivity.   Providing a vision care plan to employees gives employers a “leg up on the competition” because it’s a benefit not yet commonplace in the recruitment process, says Kelly Wenrich, director of client management for Versant Health.   Wenrich also poin...

Excerpts from Create holistic benefits strategies: Tips for partnering with the C-Suite and HR

In this episode of the Perspectives podcast, sponsored by Artemis Health and hosted on BenefitsPRO, we’ll hear highlights from the April 14th presentation titled, Create holistic benefits strategies: Tips for partnering with the C-Suite and HR. As businesses shift the way they view benefits in light of the past year, CFOs and other members of the C-suite continue to become more involved in benefits decision-making. This emerging trend is good news for advisors who are prepared to take adva...

Striking the right balance between tech and the human touch

Children’s vision health is critical to their development

Dr. Mark Ruchman and Lisa Hall of Versant Health discuss how vision care and coverage can impact key stages of advancement in childhood. Experts report that vision health is intricately linked to a child’s ability to learn and develop socially. “Simply, children can’t learn if they can’t see” says Dr. Mark Ruchman, Versant Health’s chief medical officer, but young children “don’t know what they don’t know.” While adults can sense a change in vision, younger children may simply cope due...

Excerpts from Building an inclusive benefits package for a remote workforce

In this episode of the Perspectives podcast, sponsored by Carrot Fertility and hosted on BenefitsPRO.com, we’ll hear highlights from the March 16th presentation titled, Building an Inclusive Benefits Package for a Remote Workforce.

Vision plan coverage: Impacting employee retention, productivity and well-being

Listen to Versant Health’s Amy Mann and Larry Opperman as they break down the role of vision coverage and how employers can better educate employees on its benefits. Offering vision coverage is often seen as a healthcare benefits perk, but it also can contribute to employee loyalty, well-being and safety. It plays a key part in a comprehensive benefits package by helping attract and keep employees, while improving vision wellness.   Amy Mann, Versant Health’s vice president of human re...

Payment Integrity Helps Eliminate Medical Billing Errors

Medical billing errors have long been a problem that self-insured employers seek to weed out. One such effort involves payment integrity to help stem the tide of fraud, waste and abuse by implementing processes and procedures to ensure that all health claims are correctly paid. With this in mind, it’s imperative for a TPA to have a robust, end-to-end solution to address these concerns, suggests Jessica Bemowski, manager of payment integrity at UMR, a United Healthcare Company. Such practices...

Excerpts from Top Benefits Trends for 2021: How Brokers & Employers Can Stay Ahead

In this episode of the Perspectives podcast, sponsored by Liberty Mutual and hosted on BenefitsPRO, we’ll hear highlights from the March 23rd presentation titled,Top Benefits Trends for 2021: How Brokers & Employers Can Stay Ahead.   Building a benefits program that helps clients attract and support employees is already a challenge. When you add layers of remote work and caregiver responsibilities, it becomes even trickier. That is why it’s important to stay on top of benefits trends that ...

Specialty Medication Management: Moving the Needle on Rx Cost-Containment

Pharmacy benefits management is one of the most promising cost-containment methods that a self-insured health plan sponsor can employ to rein in the fastest-growing segment of healthcare spending. But success is often predicated upon targeting a small percentage of specialty medications that drive the lion’s share of cost. Although only 1% to 2% of the U.S. population have conditions that require these drugs, which account for 2% of all prescriptions, these scripts account for roughly 30% ...

Excerpt from HSAs and Why You Should Change the Retirement Strategy Story

In this episode of the Perspectives podcast, sponsored by WEX Health and hosted on BenefitsPRO.com, we’ll hear highlights from the March 10th presentation titled, HSAs and Why You Should Change the Retirement Strategy Story.

Vision and dental: Engaging employees, delivering returns

Hear from Versant Health’s Courtney Smith-Brawner and SecureCare’s president Mark Popejoy as they discuss the benefits of offering both vision and dental care and why it’s critical for employers to understand the rewards.   Offering vision and dental coverage may simply seem like the right thing for employers to do. But the benefits far outweigh basic healthcare. According to SecureCare’s Mark Popejoy, dental and vision insurance are reasonably priced and can be a critical component of c...

Excerpts from How the Captive Model Can Help Clients - Achieving Stability Through Scale

In this episode of the Perspectives podcast, sponsored by Pareto Captive Services and hosted on BenefitsPRO.com, we’ll hear highlights from the February 24th presentation titled, How the Captive Model Can Help Clients - Achieving Stability Through Scale.    The demand for self-insurance is increasing, even though many of the stop-loss products on the market continue to fall short. With the frequency and severity of catastrophic claims on the rise, it is a prime time to help clients self-...

Resolving vision care underutilization

It’s one thing to offer vision care to clients, but another to get members to use the plan as intended. While vision care is a key component of most health care coverages, it is often underutilized by members.   This issue not only affects individual well-being, but also company productivity and expenses, says Elizabeth Klunk, RN, BSN, CCM-R, and Versant Health’s senior vice president of medical management.   “Employers should clearly communicate the benefits and value of vision care...

Excerpts from Mobile App Infringement: When Platform Notices Fail