Employee Benefits

Objective: Recruit and Retain Employees. Solution: Call TIS.

“In addition to handling our property/casualty coverages, TIS also handles our employee benefits program. That’s how much confidence we have in their commitment to our success.”
-Susan Williams, Phillips & Jordan, Inc.
“We value TIS’s advice and service. They have been involved in our employee benefits program since 2000 and they always perform as promised.”
-Lisa Courtney, Team Health, Inc.

Recruiting and retaining employees in today’s competitive labor market is a challenge faced by all employers. The TIS Employee Benefits Division will help your company effectively meet this challenge.

Keys to Success

Plan Design

Plan design is the key to developing an employee benefits program that will deliver for your Company. Unfortunately, most agents provide little if any plan design advice. Instead they rely on the shotgun approach of simply presenting to you a confusing spreadsheet full of numerous deductible and coverage options.

Don’t leave your plan design to chance. Let’s work together to design a program which is right for your Company.

  • Understanding the labor marketplace. We use numerous benchmarking and healthcare trend reports to determine what benefits your Company needs to provide in order to be competitive in the labor marketplace.
  • Understanding your costs. Are you satisfied with the claims review conducted by your current agent? Would you value limitless detail of your claims data? If so, select TIS as your agent. We provide to our clients industry-leading technology tools to ensure we have all the facts we need to design programs which will control your benefits costs.
  • Evaluating morale impact from plan changes. While we may determine that you can remain competitive in the labor marketplace with benefit changes such as raising deductibles or restricting currently offered coverages, we cannot turn a blind eye to the impact to employee morale from these changes. Accordingly, we will survey your employees and managers to evaluate the impact of any recommended changes.

Employee Communication & Education

The key to controlling costs over the long term? Make your employees better consumers of health care and help them improve their health. TIS can help.

  • Continuous Communication. TIS will work with you to develop a communication campaign to educate your employees about making wise healthcare choices throughout the year. We can provide flyers, posters, payroll stuffers, mailings, etc.
    View sample payroll stuffer (MS Word format)

  • Employee Website. Are you pleased with the design and information offered on your employee website? If not, or if your current agent is not providing an employee website, let’s talk. A central key to educating employees is providing a website which allows employees to access information about your health plan, enroll in the various products offered, and get answers to their health related questions. At TIS, we offer several website options for our clients, and would welcome the opportunity to demo a customized employee website today.

    Not sure if your employees are ready to look to the information superhighway for their benefit and company policy information? We can offer a simple survey to your employees inquiring about employee access to computers and the internet.
    View sample survey (MS Word format)

    If you find your employees are not ready for a web-based portal, we can help with communicating plan changes via paper in an effective manner as well.
    View sample benefit enrollment guide (MS Word format)

  • Health Fairs. Enrollments, health information, and employee fun is what you can expect from TIS. We host for our clients Health Fairs during the renewal transition period. We can make a difference in your employees’ perception of your employee benefits program in a morale building, exciting environment.
     
  • Benefit Statements. Do your employees understand the financial impact the Company's benefit plans make to their total compensation? We can educate employees through personalized benefit statements. View sample benefit statement (MS Word format)

HR Tools

Is your company spending plenty of time administering your employee benefits program and trying to understand COBRA, FMLA, ERISA, and other rules. How would you like to take that time and invest it elsewhere? We can make available to your HR Staff a host of internet based tools which will allow them to efficiently enroll employees, access legislative guides and other resources, and communicate with other HR professionals. MyWave—just another benefit of doing business with TIS.

More Than Health

Group health coverage is the foundation for most employee benefit strategies. We understand the numerous coverage options available in the marketplace. From deductibles to doctor choice, TIS will give you the advice you need to design a plan which best meets the needs of your company.

But an effective program requires more than health insurance alone. That’s why when TIS designs your plan, we will work with you to identify which ancillary products will keep you competitive in the labor marketplace, at the lowest cost.

Ancillary Products