Deep In-House Actuarial Services to Guide Your Plan
When it comes to managing rising healthcare costs, Alera Group offers the actuarial and finance expertise you can count on to optimize your benefits plan and drive value to your organization and employees.
Alera Group’s dedicated actuarial team can help you:
- Develop program strategy with a long-term view of costs and potential claims liability
- Determine the impact of program and vendor changes
- Set program budgets for planning and reporting, and monitor emerging experience against budget
- Analyze claims experience and population health trends
- Support for retiree plans, including an analysis of creditable coverage, retiree drug subsidy (RDS) attestations and actuarial valuations.
Financial Management Approach
Alera Group offers comprehensive financial management services and analysis across all aspects of your benefits program, including:
Program Strategy
Develop a baseline of long-term costs and potential cost variability. Assess the potential impact of a program strategy and vendor changes and conduct a risk assessment.
Cost Projections
Develop and update budget projections, set rates and provide long-term cost projections.
Plan Governance
Provide regular monitoring and an executive dashboard, identify key cost drivers and conduct large claims reporting.
Financial Reporting & Reserving
Establish incurred but not paid (IBNP) reserve, conduct retiree medical valuations and provide quarterly financial reporting support.
COVID-19 and Mental Health Trends
Managing rising numbers.
COVID-19 and Utilization
Impact on usage, spending and strategies.
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Employee Benefits
Supporting Women’s Health Month: Trending Employee Benefits
In this session, we’ll talk about how employers are helping female employees and dependents be their best through every phase of life: From fertility, maternal care and parenting to peri/menopause, caregiving and mental health.
May 16, 2024 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual
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Q2 Compliance Update
Alera Group's quarterly employee benefits compliance roundup will help you stay current on the latest national regulatory developments impacting employers.
June 4, 2024 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual
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Optimize Your Benefits: A Three-Pronged Approach
Want to lower healthcare costs and enrich your benefits program at the same time? If so, this webinar is for you.
June 20, 2024 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual
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Employee Benefits
The importance of women’s health concerns in employee benefits design
Women’s Health Month 2024 coincides with jarring controversy and growing concern over challenges and inequities regarding women’s health in general and one area in particular: maternal health. Alera Group's May 16 webinar will focus on how employer can offer solutions through their employee benefits program.
May 1, 2024
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This Mental Health Awareness Month, ‘Run Your Own Race’
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Here are tips and resources to help you get started on the route to a happier, healthier you.
April 25, 2024
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Q1 Considerations: Affordability for Applicable Large Employers
Under the ACA, Applicable Large Employers (ALEs) are required to offer “affordable” medical coverage to full-time employees or be subject to a fine. In September 2023, the IRS announced that the 2024 affordability percentage would reduce from the 2023 rate of 9.12% to 8.39% as of January 1, 2024. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has just released the 2024 Federal Poverty Level (FPL) amounts, with an increase of 3.3%.
April 23, 2024
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Three Key Considerations for Large Employers
Early in the year is the time for employers who are approaching or over 50 employees to document and update the “key components” of being a larger employer, to ensure that no compliance obligation is missed. st of an unpublished page.
April 23, 2024
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