From Consulting to Enrollment and Claim Support

Your priority should be managing your business. Our focus is simplifying the complexities of employee benefits for you. A partnership with Northstar Benefits & Enrollment Services means you can easily achieve your benefit objectives without negatively impacting the growth and success of your business.

Focusing on a full spectrum of consulting services, our expertise includes benefit and renewal planning, carrier rate negotiations, compliance assistance, employee communication and cutting edge benefit administration technology, all designed to maximize the competitiveness and value of your employee benefit package.

Ancillary benefit programs, when designed properly, provide employees with the ability to fill any needed gaps in coverage at rates lower than what they would be able to obtain on their own. Additionally, by offering products and services like critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, life and disability insurance, long term care insurance, dental and vision insurance, pre-paid legal and stand alone wellness, businesses can increase employee morale, productivity and work efficiency all increase…enhancing the firm’s growth and competitiveness.

Every year, businesses are faced with a renewal deadline for their group benefit programs, allowing them an opportunity to perform a thorough review of each plan and making revisions, when necessary. Strategic planning for the renewal process is critical, as it can assure that the benefits offered by the company are the proper fit for the needs and circumstances of both the employer and employee.

We begin preparation for each renewal year several months in advance, formulating a strategy with you based on a review of the latest market products, innovations and trends, along with your firm’s objectives. From this plan we negotiate with several leading carriers to obtain the benefit package that best suits your vision and your employee’s needs, at pricing that works for you.

Business owners today can increase their control over employee benefit programs and increasing insurance costs by introducing consumer driven administrative services, such as Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), Flexible Savings Accounts (FSAs), Health Reimbursement Accounts (FSAs) and/or Premium Only Plans (POP). Additionally, the same vendors offering these services can often assist you in preventing costly penalties and taxes by working with you to provide COBRA Administration, 5500 Preparation, help with 1094 and 1095 filings, nondiscrimination testing and ERISA Compliance.

For a small business, shopping for group health insurance is more difficult now than ever. The Affordable Care Act has introduced an array of benefit and pricing variables that make it difficult to find the right plan for you and your employees at a price you can afford. Add to that the host of new compliance regulations, tax-related products and guidelines, wellness programs and funding methods and, well, managing benefits can be a full-time job! At Northstar Benefits & Enrollment Services, our team of experts can help you sort through these complexities to design a benefit program that’s the right fit for you company. Our vast array of internal resources coupled with strategically chosen vendors allows us to craft a strategy that will not only work for you today, but for years ahead as well.