The document describes ARTBA EmCap, an employee benefit group captive solution established by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) to provide its members with an alternative to traditional fully-insured health plans. ARTBA EmCap allows participating employers to form a self-funded health plan and purchase stop-loss insurance, while also participating in a group captive that provides greater transparency, control and ability to reduce costs compared to traditional insurance. The program is designed for medium-sized employers and involves three separate contractual agreements: an individual stop-loss policy, a reinsurance agreement, and an employer agreement.
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Adressing the topic of Flexible Benefis from it\'s definition to emergind trends that will affect compensation in the workplace
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ACA Healthcare legislation and attempts at increasing regulation of self-funding and stop loss coverage are driving more employers toward stop loss captives.
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Health Care Reform Strategies for Small Employers:
• Health Care Tax Credits and Penalties
• The Recently Delayed Pay or Play Mandate
• Health Insurance Exchanges
• SHOPs
• Other Cost-Savings Opportunities
• Strategic Decision Making for Large and Small Employers
• And more!
Controlling Benefits costs: Employing Contingent Workers, HRM Outsourcing-Based Compensation Systems
NAME OF STUDENT
STUDENT NUMBER
COURSE CODE
COURSE NAME
LEARNING INSTITUTION
Compensation and Strategy: Controlling Benefits Costs
Introduction
According to Pauly, 1997 employers would want to devote much managerial effort to containing premium increases. Yet, many employers clearly have devoted resources to this end over the years, suggesting that they hold a different view. Their perspective (which Pauly terms the “business model”) places emphasis on health benefits as a cost center within each firm to be monitored and aggressively managed. If an employer could cut expenditures for health benefits, or control their rate of increase, and its competitors in the product market could not, it could lower product prices, increasing market share and profits. These gains might be short term in nature if other firms have access to the same cost containment approaches, but nevertheless they may be worth pursuing. Labor market considerations are seen as important constraints on employer cost containment efforts, but the goal of cost control is paramount.
Pauly, 1997 continues that ‘local health benefits managers may wish to manage health benefits to make them more attractive to potential employees, or to reduce costs, but they are severely constrained in doing so.
A good compensation scheme when used as a strategy by an organization aims to give rewards for the right employee behaviour. When employee achievements of the desired results are rewarded it becomes a motivator and this enhances effectiveness thereby increasing success possibilities. Compensation scheme can also be used to reinforce a desired organization culture and the compensation policy must replicate strategic business objectives. Organizations may use both financial and non financial rewards in their scheme. One such benefit is employee health insurance and when strategically used it has the ability to assist the employer and employee in various ways. However the provision of medical insurance is costly and organizations have to constantly look for ways to contain the spiralling health insurance costs to remain competitive in the industry. Most organizations seek to maximise the profitability and revenues and to have a good profit margin they must be able to constantly make cost savings.
Discuss how health insurance benefits might impact the organization’s overall strategic goal-setting process.
Quality manpower is an important asset for any organization .The provision of health insurance has great impact on organization’s overall goal setting process. Once an organization has attracted quality employs into its workforce it is important that it continues to provide quality health insurance so that the existing employees are not attracted to what is on offer by the competitors. Therefore the company is able to retain its valued manpower.
Increased productivity and reduced absent.
Adressing the topic of Flexible Benefis from it\'s definition to emergind trends that will affect compensation in the workplace
-Presented at the HRPA of Peel Compensation Dinner on 21st January 2009.
ACA Healthcare legislation and attempts at increasing regulation of self-funding and stop loss coverage are driving more employers toward stop loss captives.
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Health Care Reform Strategies for Small Employers:
• Health Care Tax Credits and Penalties
• The Recently Delayed Pay or Play Mandate
• Health Insurance Exchanges
• SHOPs
• Other Cost-Savings Opportunities
• Strategic Decision Making for Large and Small Employers
• And more!
Controlling Benefits costs: Employing Contingent Workers, HRM Outsourcing-Based Compensation Systems
NAME OF STUDENT
STUDENT NUMBER
COURSE CODE
COURSE NAME
LEARNING INSTITUTION
Compensation and Strategy: Controlling Benefits Costs
Introduction
According to Pauly, 1997 employers would want to devote much managerial effort to containing premium increases. Yet, many employers clearly have devoted resources to this end over the years, suggesting that they hold a different view. Their perspective (which Pauly terms the “business model”) places emphasis on health benefits as a cost center within each firm to be monitored and aggressively managed. If an employer could cut expenditures for health benefits, or control their rate of increase, and its competitors in the product market could not, it could lower product prices, increasing market share and profits. These gains might be short term in nature if other firms have access to the same cost containment approaches, but nevertheless they may be worth pursuing. Labor market considerations are seen as important constraints on employer cost containment efforts, but the goal of cost control is paramount.
Pauly, 1997 continues that ‘local health benefits managers may wish to manage health benefits to make them more attractive to potential employees, or to reduce costs, but they are severely constrained in doing so.
A good compensation scheme when used as a strategy by an organization aims to give rewards for the right employee behaviour. When employee achievements of the desired results are rewarded it becomes a motivator and this enhances effectiveness thereby increasing success possibilities. Compensation scheme can also be used to reinforce a desired organization culture and the compensation policy must replicate strategic business objectives. Organizations may use both financial and non financial rewards in their scheme. One such benefit is employee health insurance and when strategically used it has the ability to assist the employer and employee in various ways. However the provision of medical insurance is costly and organizations have to constantly look for ways to contain the spiralling health insurance costs to remain competitive in the industry. Most organizations seek to maximise the profitability and revenues and to have a good profit margin they must be able to constantly make cost savings.
Discuss how health insurance benefits might impact the organization’s overall strategic goal-setting process.
Quality manpower is an important asset for any organization .The provision of health insurance has great impact on organization’s overall goal setting process. Once an organization has attracted quality employs into its workforce it is important that it continues to provide quality health insurance so that the existing employees are not attracted to what is on offer by the competitors. Therefore the company is able to retain its valued manpower.
Increased productivity and reduced absent.
Should an Employer Be Self-Funded?
That is quite a question. In the past we cautioned that claims savings was not guaranteed by self-funding. And with a small difference in fixed fees vs. fully insured retention, there was not much incentive for smaller employers to take the risk, given that they were more susceptible to wide fluctuations in claims cost.
Review our research and analysis on self-funding to help determine if the program is the right fit for your business. Contact McGohan-Brabender to discuss self-funding in detail.
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Chapter 6Alternative Responses and Initiatives of Institutions aJinElias52
Chapter 6
Alternative Responses and Initiatives of Institutions and Professions
Nongovernmental health care organizations provide most medical services and handle the financing of much of the system. For-profit and nonprofit institutions operate side by side, often competing directly for the same business.
This chapter identifies a number of strategies that individuals and organizations adopt in response to governmental programs or initiate on their own to influence health policy. We start with Table 6-1, which outlines the actors and the alternatives for responding to government actions and the marketplace. Where alternatives have been addressed and terms defined in earlier chapters, we try not to repeat that information.
6.1 COMMON RESPONSES
All of the players listed in Table 6-1 employ strategies to influence the marketplace and its regulators. These can be classified into three main types of interventions:
• Public relations
• Marketing and education
• Lobbying
Table 6-1 Responses and Initiatives of Institutions and Professions
Common Approaches
• Public relations
• Marketing and education
• Lobbying
Payers
• Employers
• Eligibility
• Subsidy offered
• Plans offered
• Relationship with insurers/self-insurance
• Worker education and training
• Insurers
• Method of organization
• Method of payment
• Plans offered
• Case management/carve-outs
• Utilization constraints
• Consumer education
Providers
• Professionals
• Organization of practice
• Services offered
• Incentives
• Pricing
• Patient relationships
• Primary versus specialty care
• Efficiency
• Institutions
• Organizational structure
• Scope and scale of services
• Pricing/discounts
• Efficiency
• Quality improvement
• Consumer information
• Credentialing decisions
• Involving payers in change processes
• Professions
• Quality improvement
• Provider education
• Consumer education
Consumers
• Plan selection
• Provider selection
• Self-help
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Employers are always looking for ways to reduce one of their biggest expenditures–the cost of providing health insurance to employees. Many employers have explored solutions such as adding wellness plans, reducing usage, and providing different provider access mechanisms, all with modest success.
Stemming the rising costs of health insurance requires management to understand and improve healthcare outcomes for their employee and dependent populations. Changing the future of employer health insurance will require a multi-faceted approach:
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Employer will need to combine their data with other companies across a geographic region to get a better picture of the provider landscape than has ever been possible before.
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2. Transparency, Control,
Stability,
Reduced Costs.
Coverages are underwritten by Berkley Life and Health Insurance Company or StarNet Insurance Company, both are rated A+ by A.M. Best.
Berkley Accident and Health, LLC, Berkley Life and Health Insurance Company, and StarNet Insurance Company are member companies of
the W.R. Berkley Corporation.
USI Insurance Services LLC, the nation’s 8th largest insurance broker will act as an independent advisor and will consult ARTBA EmCap
employers on how well the strategy is driving behavior change and lowering claims cost.
The ARTBA EmCap health solution is managed by AllegeantSM
, who provides claims decision support, billing and member services and
population health management strategies for employers that participate in ARTBA EmCap.
3. Average health insurance costs for family
coverage is greater than $13,000 per year.
1
Employer Health Benefits 2009 Annual Survey”, (#7936) The
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, September 2009
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ARTBA EmCapSM
an employee benefit group captive solution.
Headquartered today in Washington, DC, just blocks from
the White House, American Road Transportation Builders
Association’s (ARTBA) mission is simple. ARTBA is a federation
whose primary goal is to aggressively grow and protect
transportation infrastructure investment to meet the public and
business demand for safe and efficient travel. In support of this
mission, ARTBA also provides programs and services designed
to give it’s 5,000+ public and private sector members a global
competitive edge.
ARTBA members have consistently identified the rising cost of
providing health insurance to their employees as one of their
primary business challenges and a competitive disadvantage as
they compete both domestically and internationally. As the cost
of providing a health care plan continues to increase an average
of 12% annually, many ARTBA members have tired of traditional,
reactive approaches of dealing with these costs. Lowering
benefits, absorbing the increased costs, charging employees
more or frequent carrier changes in order to achieve one year
cost savings are ultimately short term solutions and do not
fundamentally address the problem.
Yet many of our members do not have the size, resources,
purchasing power or access to the right expertise to implement
the solutions that many Fortune 500 companies have already
done to manage health care costs. Until now! ARTBA is
pleased to introduce an approach to managing your health
insurance costs that leverages the purchasing power of other
ARTBA members to deliver the expertise and solutions large
companies have successfully utilized to control these costs.
$4,247
$9,860
Average Health Insurance Premiums and Worker
Contributions for Family Coverage, 1999 - 2009
Source: Kaiser/HRET Survey
of Employer-Sponsored Health Benefits, 1999-2009
$1,543
$3,515
1999 2009
Employer Contribution
Worker Contribution
$5,791
$13,375
128%
Worker
Contribution
Increase
131%
Premium
Increase
ARTBA EmCapSM
provides medium-sized employers with access
to an alternative risk management tool typically utilized by
large employers. Large employers use a combination of self-
funded health benefit plans and stop loss insurance coverage
to manage the cost of providing health care to their employees.
The American Road Transportation Builders Assocation (ARTBA)
established ARTBA EmCap to provide its members with similar
control over their health care benefit costs. ARTBA EmCap
enables employers that would otherwise remain with a fully-
insured health insurance an option to consider a self-funded
health benefit plan. This innovative group captive provides
ARTBA EmCap participants with greater transparency and
control over their health benefit plans which yields stability
and the opportunity to reduce costs.
Marketplace
For many fully-insured employers, the cost of health insurance
continues to rise and is now the second largest expense item,
trailing only payroll. The average annual cost per family is greater
than $13,000 per year.1
Medium-sized employers are in a difficult
position. They have few stop loss coverage options to manage
catastrophic claims in a self-funded plan, and they have very
little information or control over the drivers of their fully-insured
premiums. They don’t know what claims they have or where
their premium dollars go. The lack of transparency inherent in
a fully-insured plan prevents employers from taking control of
the cost of providing health benefits. The only thing clear to
employers is the annual increases they receive year after year.
4. ARTBA EmCap Program
An ARTBA EmCap program assumes three separate and distinct
contractual arrangements:
1) A separate stop loss policy issued to each ARTBA member
by Berkley Life2
,
2) A reinsurance agreement between Berkley Life and a group
captive, and
3) An agreement between a group captive and each of the
employers that elect to participate in ARTBA EmCap.
The stop loss policy is an insurance contract between Berkley
Life and the ARTBA member. The policy does not provide any
coverage or benefit to the employees of any employer. Each
employer in ARTBA EmCap receives its own stop loss policy;
there are no shared policies or shared limits between any
employers.Each stop loss policy is individually underwritten
based on the specific characteristics of the employer. There
is no rating or underwriting of stop loss policies between
employers. Employers that participate in an ARTBA EmCap
program form or join a group captive. The group captive
reinsures, or assumes, risk from each stop loss policy. Since the
group captive reinsures the risk of multiple policies, the risk
assumed by the group captive is a larger and more diverse risk,
and, therefore, more predictable. Reinsuring the working layer
of risk from multiple stop loss policies to a group captive is
intended to replicate the experience of a larger single employer.
In this way, an ARTBA EmCap program affords employers the
opportunity to reduce the volatility and costs associated with
providing health benefits to their employees.
ARTBA EmCap enables like-minded ARTBA members to come
together as a multi-employer group in order to leverage the
combined purchasing powers of those employers for the
purpose of implementing a health care plan that will allow them
to create stability and lower the costs of providing benefits to
their employees.
Together ARTBA members can participate in the group captive
and each group of employers can participate in the economic
results of their group captive.
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An ARTBA EmCap program
affords employers the
opportunity to reduce the
volatility and cost associated
with providing health benefits
to their employees.
2
Coverages are underwritten by Berkley Life and Health Insurance
Company or StarNet Insurance Company, both are rated A+ by A.M.
Best, and referred to as Berkley Life for illustrative purposes.
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As we launch ARTBA EmCap there is a minimum requirement
of three or more employers with a total of 400 or more
employees. A minimum of 1,000 employees is suggested by the
end of the first program year. A maximum of 30 employers will
participate in the original captive. Additional ARTBA captives
can be formed for other interested ARTBA members.
Ideal ARTBA EmCap Employers
ARTBA EmCap involves the sale of separate stop loss policies
to medium-sized ARTBA members. An employer must have,
or intend to establish, a self-funded health benefit plan and
have more than 50 employees. The stop loss policy issued
to an employer is partially reinsured to a group captive. The
group captive is created and funded by a minimum of three
(3) employers participating in the ARTBA EmCap program.
The ideal ARTBA EmCap employers are:
• Employers with 50 or more enrolled employees on the
employee benefit plan.
• Employers with forward thinking management who are
focused on control and are willing to lead change.
• Employers willing and able to communicate with their
employees about the importance of being pro-active in
lowering the costs of health care benefits.
• Employers currently purchasing fully-insured products.
• Employers with the financial resources to assume a portion
of the risk associated with their employee benefit plan.
• Employers that understand promoting wellness by using
integrated risk and cost management tools is the only way
to truly lower costs.
Ideal ARTBA EmCap employers have forward thinking management who
are focused on control and are willing to lead change.
7. Stop Loss Options
In order to protect themselves from unexpected financial loss,
most self-funded employers purchase a stop loss policy that
provides them insurance against both large individual claims
and an aggregation of small claims.
Many ARTBA EmCap medium-sized employers want the benefits
of a self-funded plan, but dislike the inherent trade-offs
associated with such plans. If a medium-sized employer elects
to form a self-funded plan, the options and their trade-offs are
often as follows:
• Purchase a stop loss policy with a low specific retention
(e.g. $25,000) which keeps the risk exposure manageable,
but tends to be quite expensive and may not be widely
available. Additionally, it means that most cost savings
associated with moving to a self-funded plan will be realized
by the stop loss carrier, and not by the employer.
• Purchase a stop loss policy with a high specific retention
(e.g. $150,000) which tends to be relatively inexpensive, but
increases the risk exposure. Thus, the employer’s costs of
providing health care benefits can be extremely volatile.
For most medium-sized employers, both of these options have
drawbacks. Therefore, they continue to purchase fully-insured
products. Under ARTBA EmCap, participating employers with
favorable claims experience will be able to enjoy the protection
offered by a low specific retention ($25,000 or $40,000) and
are eligible for a refund of stop loss premium if limited claims
breach the specific or aggregate stop loss amounts.
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Employer
Sponsored
Self-Insured
Benefit Plan
claims
claims
claims
premium
employee
contributions
stop loss policy
Employer
Insurance
Company
Third Party
Administrator
Providers
Employees
Captive
Employers participating in the ARTBA EmCap program can form
their own wholly-owned captive. Berkley AH will perform
due diligence on the ARTBA EmCap and has the right to veto
or exclude any captive. Each ARTBA EmCap program will have
a specific retention of $25,000 (members of less than 250
employees) or
$40,000 (members of 250 or more employees) and an aggregate
retention point of 105-115% of expected claims. The stop loss
carrier will cede a portion of the policy premium to the group
captive. The premium for the layer between $25,000 (or $40,000)
and $250,000 per individual is a large portion of the overall stop
loss policy premium. This also means that this layer will likely
contain a large portion of any cost savings associated with a
self–funded plan. In addition to the premium, the captive will be
funded with collateral, or other non-premium funding, provided
by the participating employers. The amount of collateral,
or other non-premium funding, will vary for each individual
employer. It is typically 15-20% of each employer’s comparable
fully-insured premium, and can be provided via letter of credit
or cash. The collateral, or non-premium funding, is needed if
the losses for the overall captive are worse than expected.
Unused funds in the captive are typically returned to the
employers on a pro-rata premium basis.
The captive acts only as a reinsurer of the stop loss carrier. It is
not a primary or direct insurer of any self-funded health benefit
plan, the employees, or the employer.
In all situations, the stop loss carrier remains responsible for
paying all covered claims under the stop loss policy. It then
seeks reimbursement from the captive.
This brochure depicts a typical program. Since a variety of captives can be used,
the actual terms and the timing of distributions will vary by program and/or captive.
Member Retention
Group Captive Retention
Member
Aggregate
Group
Aggregate
Berkley Life
Frequency of Claims
PerIndividual
8. Cost Savings
An insurance company typically charges an insured the losses
it expects to pay, plus a risk premium. The risk premium is
based on volatility; the more the actual losses can vary from
the expected losses, the greater the risk premium. An insurance
company collects risk premiums from multiple employers and
insures uncorrelated risks. This diversification decreases the
volatility that the insurance company assumes, and means
that actual losses for the insurer are more likely to reflect
expected losses. As the group size increases, the probability
that actual losses approach expected losses increases, and
the risk to the insurer decreases. Therefore, the risk premium
charged by the insurer is more than the risk of its portfolio
which is how the insurer makes money. From an individual
employer’s perspective, the decision to insure all claims over
$25,000 is fairly simple assuming losses above that threshold
are unpredictable. Many employers will pay the risk premium to
transfer the volatility to an insurance company, even though the
cost for this risk transfer is significant.
The losses in the layer between $25,000 and $250,000 are
unpredictable for an individual medium-sized employer, but are
more predictable for either a large employer or a group captive
that reinsures the risk of many medium-sized employers. By
retaining both the premiums and the risk associated with this
layer, the captive is able to retain the risk premium normally
transferred to an insurance company in a fully-insured scenario.
The employers participate in the unused premiums from this
layer as long as the actual losses, plus expenses, do not exceed
the combination of the expected losses and the risk premium
they would have otherwise paid to the insurance company.
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The real objectives are transparency,
control, stability, and retention of
cost savings. ARTBA EmCap can help
achieve these objectives.
Individual Employer Perspective
Each employer within the ARTBA EmCap program will have its
own self-funded health benefit plan and its own stop loss policy.
The employers will have a common stop loss carrier (Berkley Life)
and reinsurer (captive). The ARTBA members participate in the
economic results of the captive, but
• There are no shared plans; each employer maintains its own
single-employer plan.
• There are no group policies; each employer is issued its
ownstop loss policy.
• There are no group rates; each policy is individually
underwritten.
• There is no co-mingling of plan assets; each employer is
responsible for its own plan assets.
• There is no joint and several liability amongst employers for
their self-insured retentions under the stop loss policy.
• The employers are not acting as reinsurers; they are
participating in the economic results of a reinsurer (captive).
Value Proposition
The objective behind ARTBA EmCap is simple. Provide medium-
sized ARTBA members with the advantages of self-funding their
health benefit plans while potentially decreasing volatility, and
their risk premium, for catastrophic claims.
Participation in ARTBA EmCap is a means to an end. The
objectives are transparency, control, stability, and reduced
costs through the retention of cost savings. ARTBA EmCap can
help achieve these objectives.
Participation in ARTBA EmCap is not for all employers. Some
employers may prefer to remain in a fully-insured product,
while other employers may be perfectly comfortable with a
stop loss policy.
ARTBA EmCap programs are not a panacea or miracle cure for
the high costs of health care benefits. They are a tool to help
employers gain more control over their cost of providing health
benefits. Any self-funded health benefit plan must be coupled
with a long-term commitment to reducing cost drivers.
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Wellness Integrated Risk and
Cost Management
Employers participating in ARTBA EmCap employ a dynamic
and innovative plan design that allows Allegeant’s care
management and claim specialists to provide a different
level of benefits based on the employee’s willingness to
engage with and use the resources and tools available to
them to manage their care and control costs. This approach
integrates plan design and claims payment into an overall
Risk Management Strategy.
Participating employers sponsored health plans properly
align benefits and incentives to maximize limited corporate
resources to achieve effective health care utilization. This
places “responsibility” back in the health care equation.
Medical benefit plans are characteristically unique as a cost
center for American business. Traditional medical benefit
plans insulate the employees, and their dependents, who
spend the plan’s health care dollars from the financial
consequences of their health care decisions. These plans
focus dollars on treating illness, instead keeping people
healthy. Unfortunately, while many employees do not have
the information, means, or support to make good choices,
some are also willingly denying the existence of their
health risks. Further, Employees (plan members) receive no
tangible rewards for focusing on maintaining their health and
productivity. As a result businesses have experienced rapid,
inexplicable, and unsustainable cost increases.
ARTBA EmCap offers a new proposition: mutual acceptance
from employers and employees for the responsibility of the
future benefits that will be available to the company based on
the decisions made today.
Employers participating in ARTBA EmCap will implement a
Risk Management Strategy to addresses these issues which
starts with risk identification and quantification. Allegeant
develops an employee baseline using a prospective and
retrospective collection methodology that identifies the
costs an employer’s plan will most likely face if the standard
process stays in place.
Next, Allegeant’s resident Risk Management Coordinators
develop a risk profile analysis and create a priority list of plan
members (employees or their dependents). The Coordinators
job is to allocate the resources available to address each
individuals risk in a coherent, methodical, and sensible
manner that keeps engagement at the highest level possible.
As designed, ARTBA EmCap is expected to significantly reduce
the risk in any given population over time which will directly
influence the rate of future increases.
The employer creates a medical benefit plan that charges
employees, or plan members, with participating in this
process or their benefits will be affected. While it is okay
for a participant to “go solo” on their health issues, we as
a community participating in the cost of our health care
can no longer support reimbursing this unilateral decision
at a full level.
An employer who joins ARTBA EmCap makes the decision
to address the root issues that drive the increases in their
health plan costs. These employers recognize that while short
term benefits will accrue to their benefit the ultimate goal is
a long term sustainable cost structure. They are educating
their employees that we are all in this together, and we
have to change the way we have accessed health care if we
want to have an attractive health benefit plan in the future.
Accountability and responsibility as well as knowledgeable
and timely services to aid in decision making will help us
conserve our plan benefits while promoting healthy life
choices and improving productivity.
Other Key Features of the ARTBA EmCap Program:
• Emphasis on Primary Care. Plan members should be
deeply involved in their care and assume responsibility for
their decisions, but most are not equipped to make these
decisions by background or training. A good Primary Care/
Patient relationship is uniquely positioned to provide the
plan member with the support they need to move through
the health care system. Primary Care services are nearly free
in the ARTBA EmCap Program so no barriers to this type of
care exist regardless of socio-economic status.
• Prescription Drugs Program that focuses on Generic
Alternatives. A prescription drug benefit can often save a
plan from the advent of a large claim, and aid an employee
in keeping a condition in check.
• Health Reimbursement Accounts, designed for each
employee, can provide accountability for health care
spending without too much sting.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Will each employer have its own self–funded
benefit plan design?
Yes. Since each employer maintains its own self-funded
health benefit plan, the plan designs can and usually do
vary by employer. The employer designs its PPO plan to
meet its objectives by selecting from deductible amounts
($250, $500, $1000 or $1500). Each employer can
determine the amount that employees contribute and the
manner in which they contribute to the plan.
In order to join the ARTBA EmCap program, member
employers must take a common approach to preventative
care and population health management programs.
Employer selected program benefits include a strong
emphasis on meaningful financial incentives for medical
management, prevention, and wellness. The potential
changes should benefit employees: lower plan costs, lower
employee contributions, improved service, and a greater
commitment to improved health.
What TPAs are used in these programs?
The ARTBA EmCap health solution is managed by
Allegeant, who provides claims decision support,
billing and member services for employers that strive to
incorporate effective services into their health plans that
seamlessly align incentives to achieve better care at a
lower cost. Members will have access to providers and use
facilities that are in the CIGNA PPO. The staff at Allegeant
have over a 30 year history of serving employers who want
control and transparency within their benefit plan.
Who will provide guidance and advisory
services to help ARTBA EmCap employers
understand and implement this new health plan?
USI Insurance Services LLC is the nation’s 8th largest
insurance broker operating nationally out of 80 offices
in 18 states. USI will act as an independent advisor that
will implement this new health solution and will consult
ARTBA EmCap employers on how well the strategy is
driving behavior change and lowering claims cost.
Is pharmacy included in the program? Where
can employees fill prescriptions?
CIGNA will be the pharmacy benefit manager for the ARTBA
EmCap health program
Is a collateral or other non-premium
funding contribution required?
Yes, each Member will be required to make a collateral, or
other non-premium funding, contribution to the captive. This
amount is typically 15-20% of previous fully insured premium.
Who is the stop loss insurance carrier?
The stop loss policies are issued by Berkley Life and Health
Insurance Company or StarNet Insurance Company, both are
member companies of W. R. Berkley Company and rated A+
by A. M. Best Company, and referred to as Berkley Life for
illustrative purposes.
Who underwrites the individual stop
loss policies?
Each policy is underwritten by Berkley AH, on behalf
of Berkley Life. Coverages are subject to conditions,
limitations, and exclusions as contained in the employer
stop loss policy. Product availability and structure may
vary, or may not be available, depending on state laws.
What prevents good employers from leaving
the ARTBA EmCap program?
Each employer is individually underwritten so their
premium should be reflective of their risk, and should
therefore be market competitive. This decreases the odds
of a large variance with another stop loss or fully insured
carrier and, therefore, the financial incentive to leave
the program. However, a group captive program typically
requires continued employer participation, including the
purchase of insurance from a ceding insurance carrier,
for the employer to maintain a right to participate in any
economic results of the group captive. Because each
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for stop loss coverage, there can be no assurances that
any employer will continue to obtain stop loss insurance
through Berkley Life or that the rates offered to employers
in ARTBA EmCap are or will be competitive with the rates
or terms that may be offered by other insurance carriers.
Rates will vary.
What happens at renewal if an employer has a
bad year?
Each employer is individually underwritten each year.
Premiums are based on the expected losses of each
employer, and there is no guaranteed renewal of coverage.
It is important to note that actual losses can and do vary
from expected losses and that the underwriting is based on
expected losses. Said another way, just because an account
has bad losses in a given year does not necessarily make
them a bad account. Losses vary, which is why employers
buy insurance.
Does the structure help stabilize the impact when a
single employer has an unexpected large loss?
ARTBA, USI, Berkley AH and Allegeant established ARTBA
EmCap to provide medium sized Member employers with
the advantages of self-funded health benefit plans while
decreasing volatility normally associated with self-funding.
By participating in the economic results of the captive, an
employer may have lower costs in a year where it had a
large claim than it would have had in a traditional self-
funded plan.
How long does it take to form the ARTBA EmCap
program?
There are many variables, but it typically takes three to six
months to form the ARTBA EmCap program.
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The concept behind ARTBA EmCap
is simple: Provide medium-sized
employers with the advantages of
self-funded health benefit plans
while decreasing volatility normally
associated with self-funding.
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12. Group Captive Division
Berkley Accident and Health, LLC
2445 Kuser Road
Hamilton Square, NJ 08690
(609) 584-6990
www.benefitscaptives.com
Contact UsBerkley Accident and Health, LLC is an innovative provider of insurance solutions, committed
to delivering superior value to our insureds. With our broad market expertise and outstanding
financial strength, we offer a diverse range of accident and health products tailored to the
needs of our customers.
The Group Captive Division structures employee benefit group captives. The Group Captive
Division was formed in 2010 to focus on this expanding niche in the marketplace.
USI Insurance Services LLC is the nation’s 8th largest insurance broker operating nationally out
of 80 offices in 18 states. USI will act as an independent advisor that will implement this new
health solution and will consult ARTBA EmCap employers on how well the strategy is driving
behavior change and lowering claims cost.
The ARTBA EmCap health solution is managed by Allegeant, who provides claims decision
support, billing and member services for employers that strive to incorporate effective services
into their health plans that seamlessly align incentives to achieve better care at a lower cost.
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