Weighting is a method of combining multiple years of claims experience are to calculate a renewal adjustment for employee benefits. The most recent claims experience is typically given the greatest weighting. Each carrier uses a different methodology for weighting the claims experience. For example, some carriers may weight two years of experience while others may weight three years.
Different lines of benefits may also use different weighting. For example, Short-term Disability may be weighted over a three year period at 70% current period, 20% prior period and 10% prior-two period. Health and Dental may be weighted over two years at 75% current period and 25% prior period.
The size of the group may also impact the weighting; larger groups, i.e., 50+ or 100+ employees may be weighted 100% on the current period.
Weighing is 1 of 7 factors that influence group benefit rate adjustments.
Trend factors reflect the increasing cost of products and services covered under the plan. Some contributing factors used to calculate the Health and Dental rates for the upcoming renewal period include:
Trend factors are typically calculated at the block level, rather than at the group level, and applied consistently across all groups within the insurance carrier’s entire block of business.
Insurance companies use midpoint-to-midpoint trend rather than an annual trend to calculate the renewal.
Trend factors is 1 of 7 factors that influence group benefit rate adjustments.
Leave management, it can feel…complicated! Here are the top 3 challenges facing businesses today and how to get out in front of them.
Challenge 1: Effectively Tracking Employee Leave
The first challenge in leave management is effectively tracking leave requests.
The Solution: Businesses must know and understand the rules around leave, including:
Challenge 2: Effectively Tracking Employee Leave While Avoiding Payroll Errors
Leave management requires effective tracking and a dynamic payroll system. Some leaves are paid; some aren’t. Depending on your policies, you may even offer your employees both paid and unpaid leave within the same category.
For example, you...
Target loss ratio (TLR) indicates the percentage of premium dollars that are allocated to pay claims. If the TLR is 80%, this means that for every dollar of premium paid, the insurance company expects to pay out 80 cents in claims. The additional 20 cents covers: insurer administration costs, advisor commission, claims payment costs, profit charge and premium tax.
When the policyholder’s claims are in excess of the TLR, theoretically, the insurance company will need to increase their rates. When the claims are lower than the TLR, they are charging too much and should be able to lower them. This, however, depends on how credible the claims experience is.
TLR is 1 of 7 factors that influence group benefit rate adjustments.
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