During this time of year, we support hundreds of employers and their employees navigate their annual benefit open enrollment. it’s easy when one works in an industry 365 days a year to forget that most people only encounter benefits and insurance terms once a year. It’s unrelated to their core job function, but when we work in the industry, it’s easy to forget that our norm isn’t everyone else’s norm. This is called the knowledge trap - when we forget what it’s like to not

It is never too early to start planning and improving your next open enrollment. Start strategizing your open enrollment now. You won’t be sorry later. As you begin to prepare for open enrollment you will want to review your company’s virtual enrollment processes to determine how they can be optimized and improved for next year. Since many employees will continue to work remotely, it is critical for companies to succeed at effectively explaining benefits packages and creat

Decision support is a buzzword in the benefits management community with every employer and vendor trying to outdo one another. Often, they myopically consider only their perspective instead of stepping back and thinking about the user’s experience. This firehose approach to decision support tools results in information overload. Information overload simply put, is when there is an excess of information available to a person making a decision, to the point that it impedes the

If you’re starting to look towards plan renewal and open enrollment prep and have that familiar panicked feeling – take a deep breath.

Benelogic’s enrollment portal is customized for your company, so that your employees have the specific information they need during each step of their enrollment process. That leads to better elections and happier employees. When you're making a decision, it’s always better to have the right information at the right time. There are too many enrollment systems that overwhelm employees with information, assuming that they understand more than they do. Enrolling in benefits is

Let us help ensure that you have a smooth open enrollment with our easy to implement 7-step plan. (UPDATED 4-30-2020) These are brave new times for us all. We must think differently to do our jobs with new and unexpected constraints. At Benelogic, we are inherently planners. Our client services team helps plan hundreds of open enrollments each year – thousands over their careers with us. When we all started working remotely a number of weeks back, our first conversations w

The best way to support your remote employees during this unprecedented health crisis is to give them easy access to information about their healthcare plans. Things are changing daily. Many insurance companies are modifying their policies to eliminate co-pays and co-insurance for certain visits and treatments, increasing access to telemedicine for virtual care, and even waiving medication limits. This information is important and is different than what is documented in the

When tragedy strikes, we always stop to consider the impact it has on our clients spread out across the US, ask how we can help, and reflect on the lessons learned from the situation. As the victims of Hurricane Harvey start the process of rebuilding, some of our Southeastern United States clients are realizing that the most powerful Atlantic Ocean storm in recorded history is about to slam into them. Disasters strike even when you’re not prepared. And while you can’t alwa