Make Open Enrollment Fun Again!

Boingo Graphics will print, address and mail your employee benefits packets.

Get on the Brandwagon
Use Open Enrollment to Pump up
Your Internal Brand

Attracting and retaining great employees is harder than it’s been in a very long time. Why not use Open Enrollment (we like to call it OE; sounds cooler) as an opportunity to put your commitment to your employees front and center.

Brand your OE materials with your logo and corporate colors.
Printed materials are a must with health coverage options. Providing information via email or in your employee site portal is important, yes. But benefits are chosen at home and having a booklet or folder of information to review with spouses, partners and family is imperative. Make your materials representative of your brand so there is no doubt these benefits are coming from YOU.

Deputize a teammate to be the benefits expert.
Whether your company has an HR team of one or 101, you’ll want to enlist the help of the rank and file (read: Joe in accounting) to assist in educating your employee base. Train Joe to understand all of the options so he can help answer questions, remind teammates of deadlines and be a cheerleader for your brand during OE.

Why Do Employees Dread
Choosing Benefits?
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Choosing benefits is scary for most people. They don’t fully understand the terminology of health insurance. They’re nervous about making the best choice of coverage for their family. They just would rather not think about it at all. Makes your job – presenting your company’s plan options and making sure everyone meets the sign-up deadline – fun, right?

The best advice we’ve ever heard when you’re conveying difficult or complicated information to someone is to give them a kitten at the same time. Ok, I think our work is done here.

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Don’t assume your team knows the benefits lingo. Share the knowledge. Copay - The fixed dollar amount the covered employee pays for medical services.

Deductible - The fixed dollar amount the covered employee must pay out of pocket each calendar year before the plan will begin reimbursing for non-preventive health expenses. Plans usually require separate limits per person and per family.

Formulary - A list of prescription drugs covered by the health plan, often structured in tiers that subsidize low-cost generics at a higher percentage than more expensive brand-name or specialty drugs.

Health Savings Account (HSA) - HSAs may be opened by employees who enroll in a high-deductible health plan. Employees can put money in an HSA up to an annual limit set by the government, using pre-tax dollars. Employers may also contribute funds to these accounts within the prescribed limit. HSA funds may be used to pay for medical expenses whether or not the deductible has been met, and no tax is owed on funds withdrawn from an HSA to pay for medical expenses. HSAs are individually owned, and the account remains with an employee after employment ends.

In-Network - Doctors, clinics and hospitals the health plan has an agreement with to provide care for its members. Health plans cover a greater share of the cost for in-network health providers than for providers who are out-of-network.

Out-of-Network - A health plan will cover treatment for doctors, clinics and hospitals who are out-of-network, but covered employees will pay more out-of-pocket to use out-of-network providers than for in-network providers.

Premium - The amount that must be paid for a health insurance plan by covered employees, by their employer or shared by both. A covered employee's share of the annual premium is generally paid periodically, such as monthly, and deducted from their paycheck.