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How Defined Contribution Health Benefits Give Brokers, Employers, and Employees More Control
Turn on the news, scroll through social media, or glance at the latest headlines, and it’s easy to feel like the world is spinning out of control. For employers and employees, this uncertainty affects decisions both big and small. While the future ...
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4 Ways to Drive Success in Employee Health Benefits in 2026
As the employee benefits landscape evolves, health insurance brokers must serve as a business strategy consultant and understand how to deliver health benefits solutions tailored to each client’s unique business needs. The defined contribution model ...
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The 2026 Health Benefits Landscape: What Employers and Brokers Need to Know
As we approach 2026, the world of employer-sponsored health benefits is on the brink of major changes. New regulations, rising costs, and evolving employee expectations are reshaping the landscape. Now more than ever, employers are looking beyond ...
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A Broker’s Guide to ICHRA Defined Contributions: Strategies, Affordability, and Examples
Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRAs) give employers a level of flexibility that traditional group health plans can’t match. ICHRAs are still tax-advantaged group health benefits. But how employers fund them ...
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ICHRA Reporting Requirements: Details to Know & How Nexben Helps
There’s a lot of upside to offering an ICHRA: more flexibility, greater cost control, and much more choice for employees. However, an ICHRA is still a group plan, and with that comes crucial annual reporting requirements your clients can’t afford to ...
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Health Benefits Costs Hurting Your Clients? Consider a Midyear Switch to ICHRA
Remember those steep group health plan renewals your clients accepted last year? The ones that made everyone wince but felt like the only option? They’re hitting some groups harder than expected. Employers are watching their budgets shrink, and some ...
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Flexible Health Benefits for Part-Time Employees? It’s Possible. Here’s How.
Group health insurance has long been part of an unwritten agreement, a social contract, between employers and employees: You help our business thrive, and we help take care of you with employer-sponsored health insurance. But for decades, health ...
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The Social Contract of Group Benefits Reimagined with Joy
Group health benefits were once a way for employers to express gratitude to their employees. Employees dedicated their time, energy, and talents to the employer. And in return, employers showed their appreciation with an offer of strong health ...
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Why Defined Contribution Health Plans Are Transforming Benefits For the Better
Imagine a world where offering health benefits feels exciting, empowering, and full of possibilities—for you, as the broker, and your employer clients. It might sound too good to be true, but it’s exactly what defined contribution health plans ...
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Group Health Plan Buyer’s Remorse? Offer Your Clients Defined Contribution Solutions Like ICHRA
As a broker, you’re breathing a sigh of relief that open enrollment has ended. But many of your clients now feel the pain of buyer’s remorse. After yet another year of high group rate increases, they had to make tough decisions about their employee ...