The Insider
November 2010
Issue 7
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In an effort to provide insight into these and other issues, HealthConnect helped sponsor a recent comprehensive study of health carriers and brokers (along with one of our business partners, The Trizetto Group). The current study was a follow-up to a similar study completed in 2008. Both surveys were targeted at two groups – brokers and medical carriers. The focus was on how both brokers and carriers could increase revenue and reduce costs through improvements in the current distribution channel as well as views on the impact of healthcare reform and strategies that brokers and carriers are adopting in response to the overall industry environment. The most recent study was completed by 1,020 brokers and 82 medical carriers (16 BCBS plans, 15 national carriers, 39 regional carriers and 12 emerging carriers).
For brokers, responses were obtained from licensed health brokers that have a strategic focus on individual/family and small group medical plans. For medical carriers, responses were completed by sales executives that influence sales and distribution strategies. The study was examined not just for current viewpoints but also how those viewpoints have changed versus 2008.
For BROKERS, the key findings are below:
Read a detailed summary of BROKER key findings.
For CARRIERS, the key findings are below:
Read a detailed summary of CARRIER key findings.
Sincerely,
Peter Everett HealthConnect Systems |
president's message
The Product Spotlight section, which will regularly highlight one of our products in more detail, will also enable us to keep you updated on new products and new features of our existing products.
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The healthcare reform produced millions of individual and family plan prospects.
With our Individual and Family Plan system, your business can grow exponentially without the extra time dedicated to quoting carriers individually and manually comparing the best options for your clients.
Our Individual and Family Plan System allows you to:
If you do not have our Individual and Family Plan System, please call our sales office at 877-805-2828 x250 or email us at sales@healthconnectsystems.com.
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Partner Spotlight will regularly focus on one of our partners whose services we make available to you through our quoting system and HRConnect.
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From the health plan benefit management to work permit regulations and COBRA extension, HR administrators have to stay on top of the issues. To lessen the burden of these responsibilities, employers often outsource different functions to other vendors, only to be left managing them all. HRConnect presents the win-win situation for health insurance agents and their clients.
As HealthConnect client, you can provide HRConnect to your clients as a value-added service and distinguish yourself from competition. Your clients, on the other hand, will benefit from a selection of partners we offer through HRConnect to handle COBRA services, HRA, voluntary benefits and more.
If you would like to offer HRConnect to your clients, please contact our sales team, or request a demo.
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Having trouble using a feature in the quoting system or HRConnect? Tips and Tricks section will provide you with a quick "how to."
HRConnect is a powerful communication tool for your clients who can communicate all sorts of information to their employees. In the Information section, HR administrators can post helpful information or links to their employees and even divide the information into sections to help sort it by importance or type.
Use the following information to help your clients get the most out of their HRConnect.
To create a new section:
Go to Information
Click on Add Section on the bottom right of the page
Fill in the fields and click Update.
Click Back to return to the Information page.
You should see the newly created section listed first.
To create a new item under the section you just created:
Click on the link Add Item on the far right of the section to which you want to add information
Fill out the fields
Click on Update.
Click Back to return to the Information page. You should see the item you just added listed first in the section to which you just added this information.
To edit the section, click on the Edit button on the far right of the section heading.
To edit the item under the section, click on the Edit button on the far right of the item heading.
To change the order the sections, click on the red arrows (up or down) on the far right of the section heading.
To change the order of the items under each section, click on the red arrows on the far right of the item heading.
Want to know what your fellow brokers are saying about our products and how they helped them? Read it here, in the So We Heard section.
so we heard
From Sharon M., President, Profit Strategies, Inc., California
I have been using HealthConnect for about a year now for Small Group and Individual business. It has made quoting and managing our insurance business so easy. The value added by offering the HRConnect platform to our Small Group clients has really given us the competitive edge. Everyone is really impressed by the convenience and information on the site. Thank you, HealthConnect, for this wonderful site!
HealthConnect in the News section will keep you up-to-date on our new developments, partnerships or changes and will include our reference in the media.
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Your opinion counts! This section will feature a quarterly poll to find out your opinion on our products, enhancements, announcements, tips and our communication to you so we can continue to improve.
your opinion
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