Category: Employee Benefits

  • Your EOB Explained: A Helpful Guide to Your Health Plan

    Ever found a confusing document in your mailbox after a doctor’s visit, wondering if it’s a bill, especially with an “amount you owe” at the bottom? You’re not alone! That document is most likely an Explanation of Benefits (EOB) from your health insurance company. It’s crucial to remember: an EOB is NOT a bill.

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  • Your Guide to Short-Term Disability

    Life sometimes throws you a curveball. You might sprain an ankle playing soccer, need surgery, or experience a difficult pregnancy. These situations can temporarily prevent you from working and earning an income. That’s where short-term disability insurance comes in. It acts as a financial safety net, providing income replacement while you recover and get back on your feet.

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  • Everyone Benefits From Year-Round Benefits Communication

    For most organizations, employee benefits communication kicks into high gear during open enrollment season. During this time, there is a surge in emails, educational webinars, fliers throughout the office, and a barrage of forms demanding signatures.

    Post open enrollment, however, employees often receive minimal information about their benefits. While sporadic email updates or new laminated signs in the office kitchen may occur, a comprehensive, year-round employee benefits communication plan is often lacking.

    This oversight represents a significant missed opportunity. An annual approach is insufficient to ensure that employees genuinely comprehend and effectively utilize their benefits.

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  • Understanding Health Insurance Basics

    Not understanding benefits terminology is near the top of the list of ways that open enrollment and benefits selection can stress you out.  Open enrollment is coming quickly and soon you will be talking about benefit options. The world of benefits and insurance can be confusing. In-network, out-of-network, deductibles, co-pays and co-insurance? What?

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  • Open Enrollment: What Is It and How Does It Work?

    For millions of Americans, the end of the year is open enrollment season – a yearly opportunity to take stock of your health care needs and select the health insurance plan that works best for you.  It is a window of time – typically in the fall – when you can sign up for health insurance, review, assess, and modify your existing benefits.

    There are more choices than ever to help you find a plan that will best suit your health needs.  Think of it like planning a trip: you don’t pack a surfboard if you are planning to hike in the mountains.  Likewise, there is a lot to think about when selecting a health plan for the next year.  What does it cost?  Does it include your prescription or preferred doctors?  Understanding health insurance basics and how open enrollment works is essential for making informed choices about your benefits and insurance coverage.

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  • New Website Launched for Benefits 7!

    Benefits 7 began more than 30 years ago and provides service and support to individuals and employer groups throughout Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky. Designing a new website for Benefits 7 allowed us to spotlight the tradition of unique innovation and excellence in the field of benefit plan development and management. Take a look at their newly launched site!

    Check out the website at benefits7.com

    Contact us to learn more about custom website design, SEO optimization, email marketing, and social media solutions!

  • New Website Launched for Cowden Associates!

    Cowden Associates is located in Pittsburgh, PA and has been recognized nationally as a “Top Small Workplace” by Winning Workplaces and the Wall Street Journal and locally as a “Best Place to Work” by the Pittsburgh Business Times. When designing Cowden’s website, highlighting this great work culture and community involvement on their homepage was a must.

    Check out the website at cowdenassociates.com

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  • New Website Launch for BJA Partners!

    BJA Partners has been providing honest advice & protecting what you value most for more than 35 years! We are thrilled to showcase this through their new website creation.

    Check out the website at bjapartners.com

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  • Website Launch for SBC!

    We are so excited to show off Stephens, Bastian & Cartwright, LP’s new website! Based in Decatur, Texas, their approach is strategic, consultative, educational and analytical.

    Visit the site at sbcinsurance.net!

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  • New Website Launched for Nielsen Benefits Group!

    We are excited to show off our new website creation for Nielsen Benefits Group! They are a trusted and innovative employee benefits consulting firm challenging the status quo of typical offerings.

    Visit the website at nielsenbenefits.com to learn what they are all about! Explore their blog that we post for while you’re there as well!

    Contact us to learn more about custom website design, SEO optimization, email marketing, and social media solutions!