Keeping track of the variables affecting health benefits has never been more difficult – or more important. A constantly evolving healthcare landscape means employers are trying to reduce their risk and control costs while improving employee health and meeting the expectations of a changing workforce. An employee benefits consultant and broker can help you achieve your benefit goals related to controlling costs, ensuring compliance, attracting and retaining talent, and reducing administrative burden.
Controlling Employee Healthcare Benefit Costs
The rapidly rising cost of benefits is a constant challenge for employers. At Aon, we continually look for innovative resources and solutions to identify cost savings and impact your bottom line.
- Cost savings modeling tool: This proprietary tool helps employers customize a health and benefits strategy by bringing the right balance between cost management and employee perceptions. It also measures a range of savings opportunities for your company and identifies potential employee disruptions.
- Access to detailed carrier knowledge: Our team uses $650 billion in claims data, providing valuable information to your company about carrier discounts, network coverage, and provider access. Our national and regional carrier relationships deliver proven performance to keep costs down while offering the right plans your people will appreciate and value.
- Insurance marketing purchasing power: Our size and scale ensure our clients get the most advanced and competitive programs. As a result, you will know you are accessing proven carriers with the industry's best terms, conditions, and pricing.
- Benchmarking and data analytics: Aon’s tools and databases benchmark current costs, plan design, employee cost sharing, and overall benefits program competitiveness, keeping you better informed. With these powerful resources, our consultants can determine how your existing benefits compare with industry and market competitors.
Ensuring Employee Benefits Compliance
The increasing number of federal and state regulations can feel overwhelming to manage. Our health and benefits legal consulting team includes more than two dozen attorneys, paralegals, and analysts with an average of twenty years of experience in healthcare and employee benefits law.
Health and Benefits Legal Consulting
We constantly monitor applicable state and federal law, which allows us to support compliance on your behalf. Through alerts, bulletins, teleconferences, and tools, we make the compliance process easier for you and keep you better informed.
On-Demand Compliance
With our on-demand technology, you can create a customized compliance calendar that triggers deadline notices based on your plan and demographics. Never miss a beat with an automated resource for federal and state legislative briefs, a multistate labor law comparison tool, and access to 80-plus HR policy templates.
Compliance Resources and Policies
Gain access to required plan documents, summary plan descriptions, annual required employee notices and a ready-to-file 5500 form. If needed, you can identify risks to electronic protected health information (EPHI) with a web-based HIPAA risk analysis and create and implement HIPAA policies and procedures.
Reducing Administrative Burden in HR
Eliminating paper, manual processes and outdated systems can improve the employee experience and reduce the redundant and time-consuming tasks that burden HR.
Branded Web-Based Portal
Engage and educate employees with customized content on their benefit programs and allows them to enroll in their benefits. The portal helps eliminate manual paperwork and enables you to reach dispersed employee populations. You can customize the portal with multimedia assets ranging from documentation to corporate policies, wellness incentive programs, a company directory and more.
Employee Communications
Tap into communication templates at your fingertips to help employees understand and value their benefits. From posters to enrollment guides to videos, you have the flexibility to use a variety of resources for your open enrollment needs. Hone your communication efforts in topic-specific campaigns and use Aon’s mobile portal for easy benefits on the go access with text messaging reminders for deadlines.
Employee Advocacy Services
Advocacy services take care of your employees by providing a personal guide to navigating challenging benefit issues. This 24/7 service is available to all employees and family members and offers personalized support for issues such as claim resolution, second opinions and questions about benefit coverage.
How Aon Can Help
Our Local Advantage consulting and brokerage team brings deep, substantive expertise across the category of health, enabling us to develop scalable solutions for our clients. Our tools and resources help you achieve your benefit goals related to controlling costs, ensuring compliance, attracting and retaining talent and reducing administrative burden.
Aon’s combination of national resources, industry expertise and innovation allow organizations to hand off cumbersome health and benefits strategy and focus more on running their enterprise.”
We help employers stay ahead of the health and benefits curve by simplifying benefits administration, strategy and compliance through a best-in-class combination of technology and consulting expertise. Making better decisions about your benefit strategies and programs can help you protect and grow your business.
