Top Strategies for Helping Plan Providers Meet Their Goals

Offering better healthcare spending
September 8, 2022
James Ashford

When trying to reduce healthcare spending, employers who offer employee benefits in the state of Oklahoma, as well as anywhere else, should be aware of one fact: there are options available that don’t increase the costs to employees via high deductibles.

As a broker, you can make a difference in this difficult process. For instance, you can recommend a few simple strategies that could help employers meet their business objectives. As a result, implementing the following strategies in order to help employers meet their employee benefit goals could have a positive impact on plan success and longevity.

Strategies For Plan Success

Employee Satisfaction

Identifying employees’ needs is extremely important. Employee benefits in the state of Oklahoma and everywhere else are important as they ensure not only that the health of the patient is being considered but that they’re genuinely valued and respected. That said, the first thing you’ll want to be sure of is that employees are being offered a variety of benefit packages, as well as the necessary tools to personalize those packages. In doing so, you prioritize their individual needs.

A one-size-fits-all benefits package isn’t going to be very effective. Instead, options should be provided so that employees can customize their own packages.

Accessibility

Benefits information, tools, and resources should be made easily accessible to employees. A newer, more logical means of doing this could be through virtual benefits fair. Rather than hosting in-person benefits fair that not all employees may be able to attend, a virtual fair gives employees the opportunity to:

  • Explore benefit options at their leisure.
  • Download only pertinent resources based on their individual needs.
  • Access this information at any time.

Spouses and family plan members can access the information at will, also.

Case management services and nurse advice lines are part of this accessibility, too. With case management services, obstacles in healthcare are easier to rectify when they arise. And nurse advice lines provide an essential 24-hour service that ensures employees are able to get the best care possible, no matter the time.

Tracking and Evaluating

A data strategy that tracks costs by calculating the cost per employee of the benefits package should be regularly reviewed and compared to different packages. Evaluating current programs, for example, can give some valuable insight into the ways in which an employer may want to proceed with a plan in years to follow. In order to do this, you can recommend that the employer conduct multi-year evaluations of claims data.

Then, when compared to employee feedback, it will be important for the employer to consider whether their initiatives were successful in improving the health and well-being of their employees.

Vision Care Direct of Oklahoma Can Help.

Our goal is to reduce out-of-pocket spending for those with employee benefits in the state of Oklahoma. As such, Vision Care Direct takes these strategies seriously. For more information, contact us today.

Not sure where to get started with recommending self-funded plans? Vision Care Direct of Oklahoma is pre-paid plan provider with and extensive of specialists who deliver eye care in Tulsa and nationwide with excellent value for employers and plan recipients.

Find out more about our self-funded plans and other flexible options.

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