Employee Benefits

Our team of technical experts provide a broad spectrum of employee benefits services to support your benefits program and produce measurable results. These services include program analysis, risk identification, alternative financing evaluation, plan design analysis, plan procurement, program implementation, and program management/service advocacy.

Our financial professionals conduct independent plan reviews that aid the plan sponsor in evaluating the plan design, service providers, investment options, and expenses. Fiduciary compliance assistance, market analysis, plan administration facilitation, plan performance review, fee analysis and benchmarking, and employee education are all inclusive of our ongoing services. We act as the day-to-day resource for questions and service needs to the plan trustees and their employees, creating a synergy among all parties involved.

Employee education and communication is an important component of overall benefit strategy. Harden customizes open-enrollment communications to promote effective education and utilization.

Data analytics drills down to reveal underlying issues and model the potential financial impact of changes while often uncovering hidden problems.  The analytics include program performance metrics such as gap analysis, predictive modeling, Identification of cost drivers and plan design mitigation, underwriting/actuarial analysis, and benchmarking.

Harden is equipped to provide tools and resources to help our clients meet their ever-changing compliance obligations. Harden Comply, a Benefit Compliance Self Check, is a powerful web-based tool that assesses an employee’s compliance with benefits’ rules. Compliance services include federal legislation briefs, state specific compliance materials, 5500 and summary annual report preparation, wrap documents, support for ERISA, COBRA, HIPPAA and section 125 administration and compliance, fiduciary compliance, healthcare reform and ACA support including evaluation variable hour tracking and automated 1094 and 1095 reporting capabilities.

Harden understands how important wellness is to both employers and employees. Harden utilizes corporate wellness programs as a business strategy with the objectives of improving the health and well-being of employees, reducing the prevalence of hidden health risk, increasing productivity, and reducing long-term healthcare trend costs.

Harden Navigator, our integrated benefits administration tool, provides the technology to give our clients’ employees a simple, modern enrollment experience without the headaches of paper. A web-based system offered to our clients, Navigator provides employees with a self-service enrollment and an employer onboarding system. Harden Navigator provides a centralized database and employee portal that improves communication and streamlines management of benefits administration.

Harden will help you develop a COBRA solution that accommodates individual needs and promotes compliance. By leveraging our industry knowledge and technology, we will guide you from vendor selection, through implementation and evaluate the quality of ongoing service.

Harden provides access to expert HR advice and answers to complex HR questions with a full complement of resources that includes: direct access to national and regional HR consultants; a dynamic library of HR forms and policy templates; and on demand training modules for both management and employees on a broad spectrum of HR topics.

Harden partners with highly reliable and trusted legal experts. With our network of legal partners, we provide seamless guidance to our clients most complex concerns whether it be related to ERISA or employment practices.

Harden’s Actuarial Services provide Minimum Actuarial Value analysis for health plans, including COBRA Rate Certification for HRAs and self-funded plans, IBNR Reserve Calculations, Self-Funding Feasibility Studies, and Renewal Analysis for fully insured plans.