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HEALTH AND BENEFITS CONSULTING AND ACTUARIAL PRACTICE
Health and Benefits Consulting Services
We provide strategic health and benefits plan consulting services, comprehensive vendor performance management, actuarial pricing and consulting, RFP support, and compliance services.
Strategic Plan Design: We create plan designs based on each client’s business and human resource needs, the characteristics of its employee population, competitive market norms and trends, and careful analysis of the incentives that may impact healthcare utilization.
Vendor Selection and Management: We manage the competitive bidding process, negotiate contract renewals, and advocate on behalf of our clients in resolving contract performance and service issues.
Compliance & Reporting: We provide support to our clients and their legal counsel in addressing health and welfare plan compliance issues, including PPACA, COBRA, HIPAA, ADEA, EEOC, ERISA, and the Internal Revenue Code.
Actuarial Services
Our Actuarial Services Practice provides risk management and other actuarial consulting services focused on assisting clients in managing the financial risks associated with their health and welfare plans, such as retiree medical benefits. We also provide plan pricing and design, reserving, financial reporting, claims experience and financial analysis. Clients are represented across industries and focus on the following areas:
Claims/Cost projections for projecting benefit costs during the year and into the future
Reserve setting, including IBNR determination and claim stabilization reserves.
Plan and benefit pricing that results in a program design that will meet HR and business objectives.
Trend calculations and analysis
Health care funding and budget determination to determine the most appropriate funding method and budget projections to evaluate the plan status at multiple points during the year.
Expert witness and mediation services.
HUMAN RESOURCES AND ORGANIZATION CONSULTING
We help our clients with all of their Human Resource needs using the C-Suite knowledge level, years of senior-level experience, and trusted HR expertise of each of our highly qualified consultants. We guide our clients through employee issues and concerns while ensuring that they are compliant with all mandated State and Federal employment laws.
We provide expertise to clients across various business sectors, including nonprofits, high-tech, financial, manufacturing, transportation, and for-profit companies. We provide real-time support to our clients, providing data and best practices along with customized research and quantitative analysis.
We get to know our clients and their specific and unique HR needs, building long term relationships by designing our support to address each organization’s visions, business goals and strategic plans for success. Our clients trust us and the support we bring designed to target their success.
We work with clients in key areas:
Employee Relations
Performance Management
Legal Compliance
Custom Employee and Management Training and Development
Executive Coaching
Compensation and Benefits Planning and Sourcing
Organizational Development
Hiring and Termination
HR Strategic Plan Development and Implementation
Targeted training in sexual harassment avoidance focused on new 2019 California requirements
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RESEARCH
Much of the research we do is in the field and promotes the idea of a mind-body connection that is very simple. Following from the work of Harvard Professor Ellen Langer, we focus on how becoming mindful -- with or without meditation -- is simpler than what people usually believe, and provides a meaningful way to avoid the dilemma of rote organizational or interpersonal behavior that leads to mindlessness, resulting in higher levels of stress and detachment. Noticing where we are, what we are assuming, and why, we notice new things re-engaging in what makes us excited and bringing our life experience to whatever we do.
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Some of our more recent work includes:
Mindfulness for Leaders
Organization Strategy and Mindful Leadership
Potential Health Improvements for Employers and Employees
Whether it is research for NASA or a more typical corporate engagement, noticing novelty brings us to the present, more fully engaging with whatever we do.