Simplified Enrollment Solutions

Traditional employee benefits open enrollment processes can be one of the most stressful times of the year for any employer. While dealing with mounds of paperwork and responding to a barrage of employee questions, employers have to ensure their employees fully understand the benefits options before selecting the best plan. Even after the benefits options are shortlisted, there is a ton of processing work to be handled, another time-intensive process for employers. That’s why digitalizing benefits enrollment and administration workflow is a great way to streamline the entire effort, making it easy-going for both employers and employees.

With over 25 years of experience in worksite management and coaching, Pete Wilkinson was driven to bring this simplification by creating a digital middle-ground between employers and their HR team, employees, and employee benefits brokers. The result was the foundation of Simplified Enrollment Benefits a leading provider of benefits communication and voluntary benefit administration services today.

Simplified Enrollment Solutions’ state-of-the-art technology platform streamlines benefits enrollment and administration via a three E approach-Engage, Educate, and Enroll. To begin, the platform acts as a conduit to connect all the stakeholders (employers, employees, brokers) in a single pane of glass. This relieves the atmosphere of pressure (for employees, especially) surrounding the complicated and confusing benefits enrollment workflow while removing any barriers to communication for all parties involved. The platform also helps employers easily track employees’ scheduled appointments with benefits brokers, adding more transparency for HR teams to intervene when someone has missed an appointment.

The platform simultaneously helps in educating the employees on the different benefits options well-suited for them via open communication channels with HRs and benefits brokers. The combined forces of seamless collaboration and connectivity cut down the benefits onboarding and administration complexities in half.

“What’s more interesting is our unique ability to help employers virtually enroll and manage the benefits plans for gig workers,” says Wilkinson, president of Simplified Enrollment Solutions.

As the number of gig workers has risen over the years, so has the debate surrounding how to provide a series of employee protections, including benefits plans, for these workers. But, since the gig workforce is mostly on-field, sometimes even spread globally, getting them to one physical space for benefits enrollment can be difficult. It is precisely this problem statement that Simplified Enrollment Solutions solves with its virtual app. The app allows the on-field workers to engage with Simplified Enrollment Solutions’ ‘benefit gurus’ to get a personalized enrollment experience.

Today, the application of this virtual app has grown beyond the gig workforce in the light of the recent global pandemic. When the pandemic hit, and most HR and business workflow had to be moved online, Simplified Enrollment Solutions’ virtual app was ready to take on the mantle for managing the benefits enrollment and management for all remote workers.

A case in point is a Medical Group that was struggling to virtualize the benefits administration process in the middle of the pandemic. With the help of Simplified Enrollment Solutions’ virtual app, they were able to raise employees’ health insurance participation from 61 to 93 percent and voluntary benefits participation from 18 to 74 percent. This participation boost shows that the Medical Group was able to simplify the engagement and communication with their employees, who better understood how their benefits packages functioned.

Simplified Enrollment Solutions is now looking to expand its partnership with more local benefits brokers. At the same time, they are also extending beyond the Texas market into New Mexico and Oklahoma. With a growing network of more than 2,500 benefit counselors, licensed in 50 states, and fluent in over 14 languages, Simplified Enrollment Solutions’ digitalized benefits management solutions are on the fast track to success.