Grading Your Health Plan: What Most Employers Miss (and How to Fix It)

Provided by Alera Group
August 7, 2025 2:00 pm ET
30 Minutes
  • Ty Franklin, Senior Consultant and Actuary at Alera Group
Owners, CEOs, CFOs, HR Managers
Learn about the health plan grader tool essential to a top-performing plan.

As a business leader, you want to take the very best care of your most valuable assets: your employees. And that includes making sure your health insurance plan is the best it can be. But how do you determine plan performance? Companies often rely on downstream measures such as benchmarking and claim costs, which are lagged and reactive. For such a high-spend line item in the budget, health insurance deserves a more proactive approach.

Join Ty Franklin, Senior Consultant and Actuary at Alera Group, as he talks about results from Study Groups’ recent Employee Compensation Survey and the plan grader tool essential to a top-performing health insurance plan.

Key Takeaways:

  1. Stop Managing Blind:
    Learn how to assess the upstream structure of your health plan—funding, contracts, and plan design—before costs or complexity spiral.
  2. Spot Misaligned Incentives Early:
    Identify where your vendors, partners, or plan structure might be working against—not for—your organization and your people.
  3. Ask Better Questions, Get Better Outcomes:
    Discover the 11 essential questions smart employers are using to reframe benefits strategy from reactive to proactive.
  4. Take Your Grade Seriously (But Not Personally):
    Why your Plan Grader Lite score matters—and how to use it to drive meaningful, measurable improvement.
  5. Take the First Step Without Disruption:
    Understand how other employers have made simple, sustainable changes — without blowing up their current plan.

This complimentary SG Voices webinar is designed for:

  • Owners
  • CEOs
  • CFOs
  • HR Managers
  • Anyone interested in a health insurance evaluation and planning strategy.

Maria Sheldon, Study Groups’ Director of SG Voices, will moderate the call, which will last approximately 30 minutes.

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