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We help employers and plan sponsors provide their employees and retirees with flexible health plan choices at affordable rates and to offer participants useful spending accounts to use on health, wellness, dependent care, and more. Listen to interviews with subject matter experts and plan sponsors to learn more about the individual health insurance marketplace and spending accounts from WTW delivered through Via Benefits.
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In this episode of The Via Benefits Exchange, host Nina Krammer joins WTW experts Margaret Rutter, Meghan Scott, and Eric Stanger to discuss how higher education institutions are approaching retiree healthcare through the individual marketplace. They explain why colleges and universities are moving away from traditional group retiree medical plans to control rising costs, reduce administrative burden and expand retiree choice and personalization. Through real-world experience shared by Via Benefits experts, the episode explains why colleges and universities are making this shift, what a typical transition looks like, and how it can reduce costs while increasing retiree choice and sustainability.
We're sharing an important update with our listeners: Eye on 65 is now The Via Benefits Exchange. While the name and podcast artwork are changing, our mission, and our content, remain the same. This new name better reflects the broader conversations we're having across the benefits landscape, from Medicare and retirement benefits to health benefits and employee benefits that matter at every stage of life. In this brief episode, we explain why the Via Benefits Exchange podcast is evolving and what you can expect going forward. Listeners can continue to count on practical, thoughtful discussions designed to help make sense of today's complex benefits landscape, now with more room to explore what matters most.
Seasoned retiree medical expert Barry Carleton decodes the latest views on the upcoming changes to Medicare Part D under the Inflation Reduction Act. We explore how these significant changes will impact Medicare-eligible retirees and organizations sponsoring post-65 retiree medical coverage in the coming years.
Senior Director of Employee Spending Accounts, Sara Taylor shares insights on what benefit professionals should know when evaluating different types of accounts and how these accounts support employees from hire to retire.
Retiree Ken Mengel shares insights on taking early retirement, transitioning to Via Benefits when he became Medicare-eligible, his health reimbursement arrangement (HRA) and choosing a plan on the individual marketplace.
Retiree Sal Trentacoste shares his insights on drug coverage, what he looks for in retiree medical benefits and his mentality for overcoming obstacles in retirement.
Retiree Randy Mayberry shares his opinion on group Medicare versus individual Medicare and what transitioning to an individual marketplace was like for him.
In the newest episode of Eye on 65, retiree Susan Morey shares her experiences in selecting drug coverage, choosing a medical plan and the overall enrollment process into both drug and medical plans.
In the latest episode of Eye on 65, retiree Robert Hoey shares his experience transitioning from a group plan to Medicare, what he looks for in a retirement plan and the benefits he found with his Health reimbursement arrangement (HRA).
Kicking off season 2 of Eye on 65, retiree David Sauter provides insights on transitioning into an individual marketplace as an early retiree, annual enrollment, and adapting to change in retirement.
Third time's a charm. Marianne celebrates her retirement in this episode of Eye on 65.
Marianne and Nina discuss what happens when someone turns 65 years old in the United States.
Helping you break down the HELPS law. What public safety retirees need to know.
Discussion about how the IRA, with a new law from Congress in place, makes for significant savings for today's retirees.
Host Marianne Steger and Chief Actuary Trevis Parson discuss what Other Post-Employment Benefits (aka OPEB) liabilities are and what plan sponsors can do to reduce them.
The true story of five retirees, picked to share their Via Benefits experiences.
Drug coverage affordability really does exist in the individual Medicare marketplace!
Understand the differences between group Medicare and individual Medicare plans and which plans are best for retirees.
Many workers retire before they are Medicare-eligible. Providing retiree health care coverage for them is quite challenging and expensive. Host Marianne Steger explains how the recent changes to the ACA made by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), have made health care for Pre-Medicare retirees accessible and more affordable.
A, B, C, D. Confused by the Medicare alphabet soup? Listen in as John Barkett and Marianne Steger sort through the ABCs of Medicare in this latest episode.
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