Small Employer (Under 50)
Client Services
Focus on running your business while our Client Support team runs the day-to-day of your policies.
Benefit Administration
Actively manage your needs with a premier benefit administration system.
Compliance
Have confidence with access to professional compliance support that addresses a wide range of issues.
Benefit Advisor Services
Our Client Advisors have decades of experience designing benefit plans that will attract, engage, and retain employees.
Wellness
Designed from the bottom up, we believe in tailored wellness programs that keep the unique demographics of your group in mind.
Buckner Risk Pool
Benefit by pooling small groups together to increase buying power.
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Client Services
Our Account Managers take care of your policy so you can get back to doing what you do best. They know how to work with your carrier to get you the best outcome possible.
We provide the following services to our Small Employer Clients:
- Annual Benefits Review
- Carrier Renewal Negotiations
- Employee Enrollment Booklets
- Ongoing Account Management
- Billing Issue Resolution
- Enrollment Administration & Support
- Employee Claims Issue Resolution
Benefit Administration
We offer a complete employee benefits administration system to handle even the most complex benefits needs. Our systems help eliminate manual processes with true end-to-end benefits automation, arm employees with powerful resources to make informed benefit decisions, and enable our clients’ peace of mind with tools to ensure compliance for ACA, COBRA, and company-specific benefits rules.
Compliance
We provide our clients with the necessary tools to stay in compliance with ever-changing legislation. Keeping our clients fully compliant with state and federal mandates saves you from facing fines, penalties, and loss of tax-favorable status. The Buckner Company has access to professional compliance support to deliver the most accurate, up-to-date, and compliant service to our valued clients.
Our compliance support for Small Employer Clients include:
- HR Compliance Assessment — Receive a clear picture of where you stand now with a risk score and actions needed to comply with all employment laws
- Compliance Guidance
- HR Legal Library — Access state and federal laws and legal tools
- Comprehensive tools and resources, including a Compliance Checklist and Employer Compliance portal
- HR Help Desk — Call for any employment law or employee problem
- Training — Supervisor, and employee web-based training
- Total Compensation Statements — See the real value of employee benefits
- HR Tools & Templates — Everything needed for your HR Department
Benefit Advisor Services
We provide consulting in designing employee benefit program management that includes:
- Strategic Analysis & Goal Setting
- Program Design & Management
- Budget Analysis & Planning
- Compliance Advisory Services
- Benefits Technology and Administration services
- Employee Engagement
- Employee Support/Advocacy
- Communication & Engagement
- Voluntary Benefits
- Wellness and Health Management
- Executive Benefits
- HR Strategic Solutions
- Global Benefits Solutions
Wellness
Keeping your group healthy and happy is one of the most important components of any company health plan. The Buckner Company’s 5-dimensional plan encompasses all 5 aspects of wellness: mental, financial, social, nutritional, and physical. We are committed to designing a tailored plan to fit your group and enhance your lives.
Buckner Risk Pool
The Buckner Company has a unique way for our Small Employer clients to come together and purchase healthcare benefits as a large, self-funded group to better control health plan costs. Employers meet quarterly to review plan data and we to understand the data and anticipate the increases or decreases that are coming down the plan’s pipeline. This allows our clients the opportunity to minimize risk, predict budget, and better forecast for potential renewal increases.
The Buckner Difference
We Stay Current
By belonging to professional organizations and subscriptions that give you access to the most recent information and cost efficiency strategies, delivering the most significant possible value and convenience to your employees and their families.
We Do the Heavy Lifting
…so you don’t have to! Staying current on the ever moving target and, ever-changing regulations is a daunting task for your HR Staff. Compliance is an added stress to manage, train, and steward your limited benefits resources. Knowing what questions to ask, we keep regulators of your doorstep by keeping you compliant.
We do our own Analytics
By using our own methods based on years of underwriting and analytical strategies, we negotiate better rates, plan designs, and improve and resolve many of the high-cost healthcare claimants for your organization. Insurance companies employ skilled underwriters whose job is to make sure they earn a profit. Our team has the skills and experience to contest conclusions that burden your plan with unrealistic cost predictions.
Cutting Through the Complexity
We live in a time when the cost of employee benefits, and specifically healthcare coverage, can be overwhelming to an employer’s bottom line. CFOs and HR professionals struggle with the balance of offering a competitive employee benefit program with the enormous pressure on the bottom line.
We act as your business partner in maximizing the value of your employee benefits plans. We do this by ensuring that your employee benefits are of the highest possible quality while being secured at the most favorable cost.
When you partner with us, you have a team of experts at your side. We meticulously analyze each of our clients’ benefit plans to validate the cost-effectiveness and fairness of pricing.
An Award-Winning Benefits Team
Collectively, we have accumulated decades of experience working with all insurance funding methods. Because of this, we are able to effectively advise our clients based on real-world, operational experience. This translates into an ability to guide our clients safely through the complexities of varied funding methodologies.
Additionally, we bring deep expertise in insurance underwriting and data analytics. This expertise is a critical part of our ability to help our clients spend their employee benefits dollars in the most effective way possible.
