Healthcare cost trends that are double the inflation rate and ever-increasing budgetary pressure represent a big challenge to managing a successful Health and Welfare benefits program. Bolton Partners can help you in this process by:

• Helping you control costs
• Aligning you benefits with your financial strategies
• Keeping your benefits plan current
• Improve employee recruitment and retention

Program Development

We will help you create an innovative and effective Health and Welfare program. We will examine your program and how it compares with your competition. Then, we will work with you and your staff to create the benefits plan that best suits your needs. We offer the following:

• Consumer driven and managed care plan evaluation
• Analysis of risk management and funding
• Competitive bidding of plans
• Evaluation of legislative compliance, including medicare Part D
• Evaluation of Disease Management and Wellness programs
• Use of voluntary benefit plans

Program Administration

Employees need clear, concise and accurate information about their benefits plan. Once the best plan options are selected, we will create a strategy for communicating the plan to your participants. We'll work with you to provide the tools necessary to ensure your employees understand and appreciate their benefits plan.

Monitoring Program

We will help you monitor your program's effectiveness by providing periodic analyses, including:

• A comprehensive annual report
• Three-year projections of plan performance
• Evaluation of GASB/SOP/FASB retiree liabilities

We offer clients a highly experienced team of professionals who exhibit technical excellence and an unyielding dedication to personal service. For information on how we can help you, email us at HealthandWelfare@BoltonPartners.com.