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Small Employer (Under 50)

Client Services

Focus on running your business while our Client Support team runs the day-to-day of your policies.

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Benefit Administration

Actively manage your needs with a premier benefit administration system.

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Compliance

Have confidence with access to professional compliance support that addresses a wide range of issues.

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Benefit Advisor Services

Our Client Advisors have decades of experience designing benefit plans that will attract, engage, and retain employees.

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Wellness

Designed from the bottom up, we believe in tailored wellness programs that keep the unique demographics of your group in mind.

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Buckner Risk Pool

Benefit by pooling small groups together to increase buying power.

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Client Services

Our Account Managers think of ourselves as an extension of your Human Resources team. We take care of the details to ensure the best possible outcomes for your employees.

We provide the following services to our Small Employer Clients:

  • Employee Advocate and Liaison
  • Human Resource Support
  • Employee Enrollment Booklets
  • Billing Issue Resolution
  • Enrollment Administration
  • Employee Claim Issue Resolution
  • Open Enrollment & New Hire Support
  • Enrollment Education

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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.

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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 one 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.

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

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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.

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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. 

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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.

Employee Benefits | Ogden

Camren Applegate
Employee Benefits | Salt Lake

Carol Dana
Employee Benefits | Salt Lake

Chris Dahl
Employee Benefits | Senior Director Health and Wellness

Emily Stone
Employee Benefits | Boise

Felipe Hardy
Employee Benefits | Salt Lake

Jon Murray
Employee Benefits | Salt Lake

Larry Meyer
Employee Benefits | Salt Lake

TJ Cerva

Employee Benefits | Ogden

Camren Applegate

Camren joined Buckner in 2015 as an Employee benefits broker and is licensed in Health, Life and Disability insurance. In his role, he helps employers develop strategic approaches with their employee benefits, as well as educating them how to become better health care consumers to offset rising costs.

 

Camren enjoys cycling, mountain biking, watching local sports teams and free samples from Costco. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Professional Sales from Weber State University. He’s still believes that Michael Jordan pushed off.

Employee Benefits | Salt Lake

Carol Dana

Carol has more than 30 years of experience in employee benefits. Carol begun her insurance career in 1987 as a captive agent with BlueCross BlueShield of Utah. She than owned and operated her own insurance agency, Dana Benefits until she started with The Buckner Company in 2011.  Carol has a strong back ground in Employee Benefits, sharing her knowledge and experience with fully insured and alternate funded health plans. She’s a member of the National Association of Health Underwriters and currently serves on the board. She’s also a 2018 SelectHealth Diamond Partner Award Recipient.

Carol enjoys camping, 4 wheeling, water skiing and traveling, her favorite vacation spot, South Africa. She considers raising her two beautiful daughters her greatest accomplishment.

Employee Benefits | Salt Lake

Chris Dahl

Chris joined Buckner in July 2010 and specializes in providing consultative analysis to larger employers. His goal is to assist clients with his broad understanding of the employee benefits space, with the ultimate objective of introducing solutions that align with the clients’ needs, culture, and business purposes. Chris received his B.A. in Communications from the University of Utah. He is fluent in Spanish.

Prior to joining Buckner, Chris spent many years in sales and underwriting for various insurance carriers, third-party administrators, and pharmacy benefit managers. He has more than 23 years of insurance experience. Those who have worked with Chris describe him as, “intelligent, dedicated, resourceful, driven, ethical, and a strong leader.”

He and his wife, Suzanne, are parents to three children. In his spare time, Chris is an avid pilot with more than 2,800 hours of flight time. He also is a Certified Flight Instructor with Instrument and Multi-Engine privileges. Chris enjoys mountain biking and fly fishing.

Employee Benefits | Senior Director Health and Wellness

Emily Stone

Emily currently works as an Employee Benefits Client Advisor and Sr. Director of Health and Wellness for The Buckner Company, with nearly 15 years of experience in the health and wellness sector. Her health philosophy cultivates the science of behavior change, proactive and preventative behavioral health solutions, and human connection.

She believes and understands that the health of any organization is directly linked to the health and wellbeing of the people who work there, which means your company’s health and wellness program is vital to achieving your overall goals and objectives. She understands that a solid benefits package can make employees feel appreciated, give you a distinct advantage to attract and retain top talent and ultimately impact your bottom line.

Emily has created unique and robust partnerships with experts across the health spectrum to offer and engage multiple solutions and resources that go beyond the traditional model of wellness. She recognizes its unique strategy drives the success of a wellness program and benefits package. Emily is an expert in plan design, evaluation, and strategy to provide the right care for your employees and more savings for your company.

Employee Benefits | Boise

Felipe Hardy

I started my career in Employee Benefits after serving in the U.S. Air Force. Over the past 30 years I have had the privilege of working in Employee Benefits and have held sales and leadership positions with brokers, carriers and TPAs. My diverse work history, experience and expertise have allowed me to bring a unique and well rounded perspective to the marketplace.

With every interaction, the one constant is my passion for the customer, putting their needs first, partnering to manage their risk and making sure they have nothing less than a great experience.

Employee Benefits | Salt Lake

Jon Murray

Jon has had his hand in the insurance industry since 2004, later joining Buckner in 2015. He specializes in the employee benefits sector, focusing on mid to large businesses (with 50+ employees). He holds a Master’s of Business Administration degree.

He enjoys the movie Fletch and his favorite restaurant in Utah is Mandarin. He loves both water and snow skiing, as well as traveling to Maui as a getaway location. He once played a pickup hockey game with Olympic figure skater Scott Hamilton and had an interesting conversation with actor Sean Astin regarding his annual salary. He cherishes his marriage as his greatest accomplishment.

Employee Benefits | Salt Lake

Larry Meyer

Larry has been in the industry for over 40 years, having gotten his start in insurance in 1977. He joined Buckner in 2010, specializing in the employee benefits sector. He has a Bachelor’s Degree, as well as his Fellow Life Management Institute (FLMI) designation.

Larry served two tours of military service in Vietnam, and was awarded the Bronze Star and Presidential Unit Citation. His favorite movie is O Brother, Where Art Thou?,  and he enjoys both Rodizio Grill and Olive Garden when it comes to favorite dining spots. He is grandfather to 18 of the cutest and smartest grandchildren.

Employee Benefits | Salt Lake

TJ Cerva

TJ joins The Buckner Company with over 25 years of experience in the insurance industry. He specializes in employee benefits, human resource services, employee wellness, voluntary products, life insurance, disability insurance, and supplemental benefits. He is also licensed in Property and Casualty, which gives him well-rounded perspectives into business insurance needs.

TJ enjoys water and snow skiing, wakeboarding, and riding motorcycles. He loves adventure motorcycling and camping, all around Utah. He also considers himself a foodie. He loves to eat out at different restaurants and try new foods. His favorite place to vacation is Flaming Gorge, UT and he loves spending time with his family and friends.

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