A Note from Our Chairman & CEO
On behalf of the MedBen team, I wish you all the best for the new year and thank you for your continued trust in MedBen. While MedBen has been serving employer groups since 1938, this past year our company marked 35 years of providing third party administration to...
Employers Cite Direct Contracting, Value-Based Formularies Among Cost-Saving Strategies
A recent "Pulse of the Purchaser" survey offers interesting insights about strategies employers are using to successfully lower their medical and pharmacy costs... strategies that, not surprisingly, have long been in use by many MedBen clients. Among them: Employers...
Review Your Plan Performance with MedBen Analytics Reporting
Want to take a deep dive into your 2024 plan performance? If so, there's a great reporting tool you may not be using: MedBen Analytics. Our online portal empowers you to make data-driven plan decisions through an employer dashboard, accompanied by a comprehensive...
Primary Care Essential to Better Heart Health
Primary care physicians are uniquely positioned to help adults improve their cardiovascular health by promoting simple and actionable lifestyle changes, the American Heart Association contends in a recent scientific statement. "Primary care plays a central role in...
Optimize Your Health through Nutrigenomic Testing
Nutrigenomic testing, available through MedBen Rx, analyzes an individual’s genetic makeup to understand how their genes influence their response to nutrition, diet, and lifestyle factors. As the list below shows, the wealth of information uncovered through testing...
IRS Makes Important Change to 1095 File Prep
It is that time of year when self-funded employers need to start preparing for a critical health care reform mandate: Providing the IRS with an accurate accounting of health coverage for full-time employees via IRS Forms 1094 and 1095. And there's an important change...
Season’s Greetings from MedBen!
MedBen will be closed on Christmas Eve (Tuesday, December 24) and Christmas Day (Wednesday, December 25), and reopen at 8:00 a.m. EST on Thursday, December 26. For the New Year’s holiday we will be closed on Wednesday, January 1, and reopen at 8:00 a.m. EST on...
MedBen Gives Back
For a quarter of a century, MedBen has worked with local agencies to provide Christmas gifts anonymously to children across Licking County. MedBen is also proud to support many other local charities and non-profit organizations including United...
End-of-Year Reminders
Wellness Exams If your plan requires members to get their wellness exam by December 31 in order to stay compliant, be sure to remind them about the looming deadline... and that failure to do so may affect their monthly premiums! Remember, if your plan offers MedBen...
Incentivize Lower-Cost, Higher-Quality Care with Direct-to-Employer Contracting
From Benefits Pro: "According to the 2024 Best Practices in Healthcare Survey from WTW, more than half of employers plan to implement programs that will reduce total costs, and just as many intend to adopt plan design and network strategies that steer workers to...
Tri-Agencies Issue Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) Final Rules
On September 23, 2024, the Department of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury collectively published the Requirements Related to the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) Final Rules. These Final Rules include plan coverage clarifications as...
MedBen Secure: New Look, Same Security!
MedBen has just launched an enhanced version of its MedBen Secure Internet server. The next time you log in you'll notice a brand-new look, but the core mission remains unchanged: to ensure the security and privacy of your organization's protected health information...