The Unexpected Consequences of Covid-19

The Unexpected Consequences of Covid-19

Healthcare in the Spotlight The pandemic has brought common healthcare plan issues into the spotlight. Inadvertently, it has created an opportunity for forward thinking employers to reevaluate their plan design and improve things like the absence of mental health support, ‘ineffective deductibles’, limited employee choices or a ‘lack of transparency that leads to waste.’ Allowing…

How To Get Care For COVID-19 (Premera Blue Cross)

With so much information – both good and bad, circulating about the coronavirus, Premera Blue Cross has published a useful online resource we’d like to share on ‘how to get care for COVID-19’. Link: https://www.premera.com/wa/visitor/outbreaks/ It clearly lists links for ‘up-to-date’ information, how to access virtual care, FAQ, an online form to find out information…

Understanding Your Health Benefits

Understanding Your Health Benefits

A Brief History Already under scrutiny, when the Studebaker Car Manufacturing company closed and couldn’t fulfill its pension promises to its thousands of employees during the 1960s, the event was a catalyst for citizens and politicians alike to demand pension reform. Enacted and signed into law by President Ford on Labor Day 1974, the Employee…

Coverage For Your Employees

Coverage For Your Employees

Are you looking for health insurance coverage for your employees? Give us a call in Seattle at (206) 910-4630 or in Mount Vernon at (360) 419-9999. Group Benefits Northwest has provided health insurance and group benefit plans to Whatcom, Skagit, Snohomish and King County small and midsize companies for 35 years. Partnering with trusted insurance providers,…