Step 1. Decide Your Goals - What do you, as the customer, want? Why do you offer health benefits?
· Attract and Retain Top Talent
· Healthy Productive Workforce
· Employee Satisfaction
· Reduced Costs
Measure to see if you are getting what you want
Step 2. Align and incent your internal staff and benefit consultant
The people inside your company responsible for health benefits should be aligned to help you reach your health benefit goals. Your health benefits consultant should also be aligned to help you reach your health benefit goals.
Step 3. Decide how much will be invested in each of the 4 defined contribution strategy buckets
Medical Plan – How much will be offered, and which options will be offered to handle major medical expenses.
· Medical Partner – How much will be offered, and which subscription-based primary care options will be offered to align the front door of healthcare to work for your members.
· Coach Partner – How much will be offered as a monthly incentive to encourage members to take ownership in their health and work with a coach to support them in reaching their goals.
· Medical Savings - How much?
Step 4. Hold orientation meetings where those trusted most can introduce this new approach.
Introduce members to their benefits partner. The benefits partner educates members and offers to meet one-on-one with each member to educate and answer questions, which builds relationship. These meetings can be held in-person or virtually.
Members and their families now enjoy a trusting relationship with their health partners.
Members now know how to reach their partners for any health need, and they can access the entire healthcare system through their personal health partners team.
