Cragin & Pike

Health & Benefits

CRAGIN & PIKE brings the expertise, resources and passion for employee benefits to serve your company and its employees in an exceptional manner.  Our local hands-on presence combined with our national affiliation with Assurex Global provides our clients with local response and attention backed by the resources of one of the world’s largest insurance and brokerage affiliations.

CRAGIN & PIKE wants to be your trusted partner and advisor in developing short-term and long-term employee benefit strategies to address:

• Cost Control: Providing exceptional benefits is an expensive endeavor with each percent saved equating to thousands of dollars now and in the future.  CRAGIN & PIKE has the expertise and ability to provide creative plan design consulting and financial analysis to identify opportunities for reducing costs and decreasing trends.
• Employee Service:  With a high volume of claims and large dollars being expended, benefits professionals must maintain a sense of urgency over employee claims issues and the difference that even a small dollar amount might make in that person’s life.  At CRAGIN & PIKE, we treat each case as our own.  We use our expertise in healthcare finance, and claims administration to resolve issues quickly and effectively for our clients.
• Client Service:  For our clients, CRAGIN & PIKE becomes a valued extension of the benefits department.  Whether by conducting enrollment meetings, taking employee phone calls, providing financial analysis or anything in-between, we are at your disposal to reduce your workload and do what it takes to get the job done.
• Strategic Planning:  To contain costs, meet employee demand, and comply with legislation, your benefits programs must continue to evolve over time.  CRAGIN & PIKE’s experience in developing creative plan designs that not only address current issues, but help plan for the future is one of our valued assets.  Helping you identify creative and effective benefit plan opportunities is our strength.
• Benefits Communications: The single biggest factor leading to an employee’s dissatisfaction with benefits is when the benefit plan does not meet their expectations.  That is not to say that the benefits must be designed to fit every person’s exact need, rather they need to be communicated in a manner that is engaging, easy to understand and memorable.  If an employee understands their benefits and uses them correctly, then they will be satisfied with their benefits and their employer.
• Vendor Management:  Our clients not only deal with numerous existing vendors, but are constantly approached by other vendors seeking an opportunity to present their services.  CRAGIN & PIKE will assist in managing existing vendor relationships, measuring performance guarantees, developing RFPs, evaluating vendor proposals and managing implementation processes and transitions.
• Health Care Reform & Legal Compliance: Employee benefits issues can fall under the purview of multiple state and federal entities including the Division of Insurance, the Department of Labor, and the IRS.  With regulations from multiple entities continuously changing and developing, CRAGIN & PIKE will be there to provide updates and guidance.