Byars|Wright

A robust benefits package is essential for organizations to remain a step ahead in attracting, hiring, and retaining qualified employees. Designing attractive packages requires comprehensive knowledge of insurance and benefits planning acumen, which is what Byars|Wright brings to the table.

The commercial and personal insurance firm is the go-to employee benefits planning guide for organizations seeking to gain an edge in talent acquisition, retention, and creative solutions. It leverages its benefits planning expertise to build competitive plans, implement cost-containment strategies, and achieve clients’ goals. This includes well-rounded employee assistance plans (EAP) that enable organizations to keep their talent workforce engaged, motivated, and productive.

Byars|Wright’s services encompass the entirety of benefits planning for organizations, including implementation, meeting compliance requirements, providing benefits summaries, and educating both employers and employees on the plans.

“Our exceptional service to clients and great relationships with insurance carriers enable us to offer richer benefit plans with competitive rates,” says Renee Wenzler, director of employee benefits at Byars|Wright.

The firm has carved a place for itself in the industry with its excellent customer services and innovative approach to planning. Its team of expert consultants walks clients through the entire employee benefits planning and implementation process.Going above and beyond, the team promptly responds to phone calls and emails and resolves issues within 24 hours. Employees of client organizations can also directly contact the team and have their queries resolved in no time.

Before creating a tailored benefits plan, Byars|Wright conducts face-to-face meetings with clients to understand their needs. It assesses the strengths and pain points in their existing plans and customizes them by prioritizing their package requirements.

Byars|Wright also meets their employees and includes their preferences in the plan. For instance, it finds benefits solutions for employees with high-cost medicine prescriptions without increasing their employer’s expenses.

Byars|Wright’s in-house enrollment specialist ensures smooth onboarding for clients and employees. This specialist also creates employee benefits handbooks, customized to an employer’s specifications to educate new hires on the benefits. The overview provided by this handbook is complete with customer service contact information and tips on filing claims.

Our exceptional service to our clients and great relationships with our insurance carriers enable us to offer richer benefit plans with competitive rates.

An instance that best showcases the outcomes of Byars|Wright’s customized plans is when an employer required a cost-effective employee health benefits plan. It helped them achieve this by shifting their employees from a fully-insured plan to a level-funded one. The reduced costs allowed them to implement a revamped employee health assistance plan with a telemedicine feature. At zero extra cost, employees could schedule online doctor’s appointments and telephonically fill their prescriptions. In a bid to contain costs further, it hired a specialist to transfer eligible employees aged 65 and above to Medicare plans. The resulting savings enabled the client to reinvest in their workforce and develop a richer EAP.

A strong organizational support system helps Byars|Wright deliver outstanding results.

“I'm very, very proud of my team. We all work together every day to make sure we're taking care of our clients,” Wenzler added.

Additional support through access to tech tools like Employee Navigator, an employee enrollment benefits platform, contributes extra strength. This platform delivers summaries of the offered plans, paid employee time-off tracking information, and reports creation—all easily accessible to employers. It also facilitates reporting on the Affordable Care Act and for employees’ 401k accounts. The platform also generates annual benefits confirmation statements, which can be used to inform employees of the amount contributed by their employers to the plans.

An architect of successful benefits planning, Byars|Wright is well-positioned as the perfect partner for organizations looking to set the bar high in attracting and retaining top talent with an ideal benefits package.