Employee benefits advisor providing cutting edge health plan management strategies to maximize benefits and minimize cost.I work with our entire team to combine strategic planning, identification of employer needs, outside the box solutions, strong client relationships and disciplined execution. I use my 25+ years of experience to develop long-term strategies that control costs for the employer and employees and their families.At Benefit Commerce Group, our focus is on controlling healthcare costs through plan design, wellness programs and funding structures that reward employees for making good healthcare choices. We have a strong emphasis on educating and communicating with employees on how to navigate through the complex healthcare system.We help our clients develop the most cost-effective solutions, and we become an extension of our clients’ HR teams, helping them design and enhance employee benefits programs so they can recruit and keep productive workers. As part of Alera Group, we thrive through collaboration. To us, collaboration is much more than choosing something off the shelf for our clients or sharing best practices. It means identifying the experts in our ranks, finding the starting point of a solution and then working together to make it even better for our clients. Our support for our clients takes a lot of burden off the HR team, so they can concentrate on all their other tasks. We maintain an annual benefit task calendar for our clients, and we provide prompt, accurate and reliable answers they can trust. SPECIALTIES: Employee benefit plans with sustainable strategies to lower health care costs without reducing benefits, Employee health/wellness programs integrated into benefit plans, Consumer-driven strategies, Actuarial services, Population health management with data analytics, Technology to streamline HR functions: enrollment, communication and benefit plan administration, Employee health plans, group life, disability, dental, vision, EAP, 401(k), Section 125, and Health care reform compliance audit & resources.