Best practices to prepare your company for a smooth and successful Open Enrollment
Plan Ahead
- Consider Changes to your Benefit Offerings (3 - 6 months prior to your Open Enrollment effective date)
- Contact your Benefits Insurance Broker to begin the process of adding to, updating, and/or replacing your current Benefit Offerings
- Finalize Plan Changes (2 - 4 months prior to your Open Enrollment effective date)
- Gather plan selections for the new plan year
- Advertise tentative Open Enrollment dates and high-level plan information to your employees
- Update Benefits Guide(s) to publish to your employees prior to or during Open Enrollment
- Update all changes to your Benefit Plans, including Premiums, in Fuse at least 30 days prior to your Open Enrollment period
- Please review the Benefits Administrator learning plan in My Learning from Fuse, with a specific focus on the following Courses.
- Updating Rates in an Existing Benefit Plan
- Open Enrollment and more
- Scheduling Open Enrollment
- Please review the Benefits Administrator learning plan in My Learning from Fuse, with a specific focus on the following Courses.
- Finish Ahead of Time (1 - 3 months before your Open Enrollment effective date)
- Provide training and resources to your employees to prepare them for Open Enrollment
- Please promote the Employee learning plan in My Learning from Fuse, with a specific focus on the following Course.
- Review and Select My Benefits
- Please promote the Employee learning plan in My Learning from Fuse, with a specific focus on the following Course.
- Hold a 2-week Open Enrollment Period for your employees to make their Benefits selections
- Send Open Enrollment data to your Carrier(s) at least 30 days prior to the new plan year effective date
- Provide training and resources to your employees to prepare them for Open Enrollment