Employee Benefits

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it was expanding the emergency use authorization for COVID-19 vaccines to allow more booster shots for the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines.

Prior to Apex becoming the strategic advisor, this client also had a near-site clinic available to all members on the medical plan. After a thorough review of clinic data, our team found that the cost per visit exceeded $225 due …

The client was unsatisfied with the customer service and level of innovation provided by their benefits advisor. Apex was engaged to complete a Peer Review to identify immediate and future plan savings with minimal disruption to plan members.

The client was experiencing rising and unsustainable healthcare costs while their revenue stream was capped. In 2015, two years prior to hiring Apex, its healthcare spend was $1.66 million. That spend increased to $1.81 million in 2016.

Apex was the first benefits advisory firm to introduce Reference-Based Reimbursement (RBR) pricing methodology to the public and private sectors in Indiana in 2012 and has the largest number of RBR clients among Indiana benefits advisory firms.

Open enrollment season is right around the corner, but hopefully your organization has already begun work on a successful season. This time of year is always busiest for our client service team. We field questions daily about open enrollment and …

This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a Health Advisory to urge people who are pregnant, recently pregnant or trying to become pregnant to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The COVID-19 vaccine for pregnant are people has …

How many times do you think to yourself, “I wish I’d known that sooner?” It happens to the best of us. Sometimes we feel very prepared, only to have something surprise us. That can especially happen with the complicated process …

Last week, the Biden Administration ordered the U.S. Department of Labor to create an Emergency Temporary Standard through OHSA stating that all employers with more than 100 employees must vaccinate their workforce, or subject to weekly testing. Unsurprisingly, the announcement …

The impact of COVID-19 on employers is evolving. Employers are challenged with how to provide a safe workplace for employees and customers. Some employers are exploring mandates or providing incentives to employees for obtaining a COVID-19 vaccine. For those employers …

The FDA granted full approval to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine — which will be marketed as Comirnaty. This applies to all Americans ages 16 and older, however, the vaccine is still available under Emergency Use Authorization for patients between the ages …

Analyzing plan members’ medical and pharmacy claims data is a task most often left up to your carrier or broker. However, today’s HR pros can add data analyst to their many responsibilities.