April 11, 2015

There were 2 posts published on April 11, 2015 (this is page 1 of 1).

AON Hewitt thinks people are costs

Here’s AON Hewitt’s page describing its Dependent Verification Services. I’d hate to be one of those “costly, ineligible dependents” that naively believe they have some sort of right to healthcare or something.

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Aon Hewitt’s Plan-Smart® and Plan-Guard® dependent eligibility solutions help companies verify that eligible dependents maintain access to anticipated benefits and costly, ineligible dependents are removed from coverage as quickly as possible. Plan-Smart performs a complete audit of an enrolled dependent population. Plan-Guard’s ongoing dependent verification services preserve the integrity of the benefit plans on an ongoing basis and protect the results of the comprehensive audit.
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Dependent Verification programs are a stupid idea

Many employers are implementing audits of those employees using their company’s health insurance to verify that the dependents claimed are eligible to receive health insurance benefits. I think this is … well, evil.

Sez the Pittsburgh Post:

Employers like the audits because they are often able to help save on health care costs overnight without reducing benefit levels for employees. One in-depth study by the University of Colorado showed the return on investment for its own audit was 13 to 1, in the first year.

But employees targeted by the audits aren’t always fans.
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