As a small enterprize owner providing health insurance benefits to your staff, you know the dreaded feeling you are facing every year when the envelope arrives containing the updated rates from your insurance carrier. Each year you are forced to select between the same alternatives:
Let the business swallow the increase and take a smash to the bottom line.
Cut benefits by raising the deductible or office visit co-pays.
This puts you in a no-win position. If you select number one, you can keep your employees happy for another year, but your profitability suffers. If rates were to keep augmenting at 15% a year (not all that uncommon), the companies premiums will more than double in five years. If you select number 2 or 3, you are very likely going to face unhappy employees.
Most giant companies already do this, few home businesses are taking advantage of this opportunity. In fact, what occurs if a number of your employees get hurt or sick and need to use the plan?
The numbers don’t always make self-insuring a part of the health plan the most acceptable alternative, but when it works, it can supply major savings.
Often times an employer will raise their plan deductible and this alone will create a major benefits. Instead of leave the staff with less coverage, the employer agrees to cover the quantity of the deductible increase with the savings created if their staff need the medical care. If the medical care isn’t required, the savings. Many times the savings.
An HRA 105 plan permits companies maximum adaptability. The employer can select how much the staff will be reimbursed, what kind of claims will be remunerated, and at what %. This allows small businesses to grasp exactly what their maximum guilt would be in a worst case scenario and allow them keep their risk at a manageable level.
The remaining savings can be employed to off-set future premium increases and potentially permit a business to self-insure a greater portion of their plan going forward, leading to more cost efficiency.
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