While hospital leadership is spending precious time brainstorming ways to contain costs, the practical choice of a Dependent Eligibility Verification providing almost immediate quantifiable results could be the easiest solution to cutting costs.…

Marriage certificates are great for one thing: They prove that your employee and their spouse were once married. But is this enough for your Dependent Verification Auditing process? The short answer is no.…

It’s a given that a Dependent Eligibility Audit is the way to go for benefits cost containment. With so many providers, how can you ensure you choose the right partner? The answer is simple—results matter.…

Mailing Dependent Eligibility Verification forms is not something most of us think about; we partner with a third party and they take care of this step. But how your benefits partner chooses to send verification forms to your employees can affect you more than you realize.…

There’s never a wrong time to conduct a dependent audit. Cost containment is a continual part of your business, and you should always be looking for more ways to realize additional benefit savings.…

Working Spouse Rules are more than just a trend in benefits management. Over the last three years, this way of containing benefit costs in a time of healthcare change gained in popularity. Last year one-fifth of companies limited coverage for working spouses. Spousal carve-out, excluding working spouses from your plan, increased from 5% in 2010 to 6% in 2012.…

Are ongoing audits worth it? If you are interested in continually containing your healthcare costs each year, the answer is a big yes. Conducting Ongoing Dependent Eligibility Auditing for new hires and those with qualifying event changes the integrity of your benefit plans and the original, comprehensive audit, while ensuring you’re only paying for eligible dependents on your plan.…

You adopted Working Spouse Rules, but you aren’t seeing significant cost savings? Blame it on the honor system. Employers using employee affidavits to check for the availability of other coverage are losing out on nearly two-thirds of their healthcare cost savings.…

With the healthcare costs steadily on the rise, companies are turning to various cost containing methods to ensure they are providing proper benefits coverage. One such cost containment strategy is the execution of a Dependent Eligibility Audit.…

Rising benefit costs and healthcare reform compliance have employers exploring different approaches to cost containment. One growing trend is the implementation of a Working Spouse Rule.…