Health & Welfare Advisory
Rising health costs, and legislative and economic changes continue to alter the benefits landscape. Employers are seeking innovative and cost-efficient employee benefits solutions to manage their near-term and longer-term cost curve by focusing on employee health, lifestyle choices and productivity. At Hanna, we work with employers to develop customized benefits plans that drive engagement, promote responsibility and accountability, help participants manage health risk and chronic conditions, and reduce absence.
We have the consulting expertise and administrative resources to plan, design, execute and deliver your health benefits strategy. Our actuarial, and legal expertise along with our influence with national carriers enable us to help you manage health care costs through a combination of approaches, including continued cost shifting and tougher negotiations with health plans. We have been able to reduce our client’s costs by millions each year by using our unique approach.
Employee Benefits Consulting for Health & Welfare Benefit Plans 
- Providing strategies that help combat the rising costs of health care
- Guiding clients in making informed benefit decisions that meet budget goals and satisfy employee needs
- Driving communications that help current and prospective employees understand the value of their benefits package
- Reducing administrative burden and increasing efficiency
- Best practices recommendations on benefit plan designs, policies and processes
- Through customized high-tech, high-touch, benefit solutions, HGS offers design, implementation and service of comprehensive employee benefits consulting, compensation and retirement plans:
Market Analysis and Benchmarking 
- Pre-renewal and renewal analysis
- Benchmarking
- Negotiations with all carriers to get full benefit of unique business model, using HGS’s aggregate data
- Market all benefit plans to appropriate vendors, analyze, consolidate and present responses and help evaluation and decision making process
- As a member of United Benefit Advisors (UBA) we participate in and have access to the largest employee benefits consulting and benchmarking survey in the United States. Some of the employee benefit services include:-
Financial Analysis and Reporting 
- Management Reports
- Employee contribution analysis
- Eligibility Data Management
Electronic Enrollment System 
- Online employee self-service benefits enrollment system (BES) customized for the Global business
- Complete data management with multiple options for the manner in which data will be updated on this system
- Checklist-based architecture
- EDI management
- BHIPAA compliant data interchange with all carriers
Billing & Payroll Deduction Reporting Services 
- Payroll feeds and ownership for payroll deduction process on benefits managed by HGS
- Generation of self-accounting statements for self-funded plans
- Reconciliation and audit of carrier bills, audit vis-à-vis payroll
- Generation of payment advices on all lines of coverage
Employee benefits consulting and Support Services 
- Communication and Client Educational Support
- Development and review of employee communication materials
- Employee Satisfaction Surveys
- Employee benefit statements
- Conduct open enrollment campaigns – email, webinar, conference calls
Health Risk Assessment 
- Health Risk Assessment tools, research and analysis, Wellness strategies
Benefits Help Desk / Employee Advocacy Services (Contact Center) 
- Employee Support- Toll free and email responses to active and terminated employees, dependents
- Claims advocacy- Employee advocacy on claims issues, helping employees till resolution of payments
- Activity reporting
- Payroll deduction queries
- Eligibility and policy enforcement
COBRA Administration 
- COBRA Notices
- Premium collection
- Support to participants on COBRA issues
- Open Enrollment support
Global Benefits Capabilities 
- Our partnership with Globex International allows us to support our clients and employees globally. We offer ‘on the ground’ service and support and procure the right insurance programs. Please see our Global solutions page for more information.

