HRAdvance Healthcare Cost Savings Newsletter

PLAN-SMART ROI CALCULATOR

What is the cost-savings potential from auditing your dependents?

HRAdvance’s Plan-Smart ROI Calculator is a tool designed to answer questions about your potential cost-savings.

Did you know the average audit returns more than 600% ROI; which literally translates to hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings per year? Check out your potential cost savings here.



DO THE MATH

An employer with 2,000 employees enrolling an average of two dependents per employee that finds only 5% ineligible (the average is over 10%) will have savings that exceed $240,000 annually by simply identifying and removing ineligible dependents from its health plan.


Why Do a Dependent Eligibility Audit?

1. Reduce expenses on your Medical Plan without changing the plan design or employee contributions. Compelling economics: typical results indicate 10% ineligible dependents are enrolled on employer health plans which translates to hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in cost savings.

2. Fiduciary responsibility to stakeholders and plan participants

  • Exclusive Benefit Rule (ERISA)
  • Qualified Section 125 exposure (pre-tax deductions not allowed for ineligible participants)
  • Internal Audit Controls
  • Sarbanes Oxley compliance issues for publicly traded companies

3. Effective employee communication builds the value and perception of your company benefit plans being provided to employees. Plus, improved employee awareness helps set the tone from the top that company provided healthcare is a privilege, not an entitlement and fraud is not tolerated.

 

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First Step in Reducing Health Plan Costs:
Calculate Your Potential Savings

Everyone acknowledges that greater personal financial responsibility is integral to containing the cost of health care. When ineligible dependents are left on employer health plans, as opposed to being shifted to appropriate alternatives (i.e. Government Assistance or individual insurance coverage), we are contributing to the national health care crisis.

“We have made cost control a coequal objective, just as important as the expansion of insurance coverage, which has traditionally been the dominant goal,” said Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff. “The entire discussion has to be centered on controlling or reducing costs.”

Today’s market conditions demand that organizations and their health plans identify and adopt readily available cost containment opportunities.

Did you know that for most employers health insurance expenses are their fastest growing cost component?

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Eligibility Quality Controls:
How did we get here?

Health plan enrollment has lacked any meaningful Internal Controls for decades. For instance, enrollment forms have not changed much since the 70s. Moving enrollment to the Web simply compounds the problem. This outdated process was designed to facilitate gaining coverage through an employee signature, but paper and web forms fails to verify the eligibility of dependents. 

Are all the dependents enrolled in your medical plan eligible for coverage?
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A Case Study in Savings:
Dependent Eligibility Audit

An oil and gas producer in Dallas, TX spending $3,600 per dependent per year, saved nearly half a million dollars in first year cost savings...
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What Can Go Wrong and Disrupt Results:

Manual audits often fail to produce actionable results and do not overcome the three most common disruptive factors. 
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