Group Health Insurance

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Group health insurance is often the top priority of employees since individual health insurance can be costly. It’s a large expense for employers, second only to payroll. Let us help your company navigate this process and take on some of that burden so you’re not distracted by these issues while hiring talent who will make all the difference down the line.

What is Group Health Insurance?

Group insurance is a form of health coverage in which the risk for an insurer is spread across multiple policyholders. This plan provides healthcare benefits to members, usually company employees or membership organizations such as professional associations. Group plans often receive discounted prices from service providers because they can share costs among their group members rather than paying out individual rates based on each person’s needs and history with the provider.

Why do you need Group Health Insurance?

Group health insurance plans are designed to be more cost-effective for businesses. Employee premiums are typically less expensive than those for an individual health plan. In addition, premiums are paid with pre-tax dollars, which helps employees pay less in annual taxes. As a result, employers pay lower payroll taxes and can deduct their annual contributions when calculating income taxes.

Advantages of Group Health Insurance

The main benefit of group medical insurance is that group plans tend to have relatively low premiums. In addition, due to the advantage of larger risk pools, group health insurance plans are often more affordable than individual health plans. When more people enroll in a group medical insurance plan, this spreads risk across a wider number of plan members in the group pool, allowing the high insurance cost of any one individual to be balanced by the premiums paid by other members of the plan.

One of the other significant advantages of group medical insurance is the potential for tax benefits.

For an employer, the money paid toward monthly employee premiums is usually tax-deductible
For employees, premiums are paid with pre-tax dollars, which can reduce their taxable income
Eligible small businesses may be able to qualify for the small business health care tax credit

How much does Group Health Insurance cost?

The cost of group insurance is affected by several factors specific to the employer, the insured, and their plan, such as:

Demographics of the insured (age, gender, marital status)
Salary
Type of industry
Types of coverage offered (dental care, short-term disability, etc.)
Levels of coverage (co-pay, deductible, maximum, insured volumes, etc.)
Use of plan (claims experience)

Group health insurance can go a long way toward making employees and employers feel better about their working relationships. Of course, having insurance will not solve all company or employee problems. Still, it can certainly ensure that employees and employers feel better about everything they have at a particular company.

Picking your group health insurance is tough, but we’re here to help. We can offer you guidance on how much coverage you need and what type of benefits work best for both employers and employees. Contact us today to know more!

Already have Group Health Insurance? Switching is easy

It might be time to switch insurers whenever the service that your existing insurer provides doesn’t meet your needs. For example, if you have a poor claims experience or an unexplained rate increase, it might be time to consider other options

If you cancel a previous policy before a new policy is effective, you could run into some serious financial problems.