Small stations often have difficulty finding good employee health insurance at affordable rates because they have few employees.
Two TAB Associate Members are helping stations of all sizes develop health insurance benefit packages in conventional and creative ways.
Key Association Health Solutions has developed an option that allows several independent station groups to join a group health coalition to lower costs and increase benefits.
One coalition that Key created joins four different East Texas station groups with a Central Texas station group.
The benefits are stark: one six-employee station reduced their employee-only premium from $454 to $314, while another station was finally able to afford small group coverage for the first time.
Barry Fikes, a principal with Key Association Health Solutions, is visiting TAB members throughout the state this fall as businesses are budgeting for benefit plan renewals.
Mary Starr with Benefit Designers designs packages for stations based on their unique employee groupings and budgets, carrying lines from all major insurers.
