Employee Benefits Broker in Bellevue, WA

Competing for talent on the Eastside

Bellevue small businesses hire from the same talent pool as the large technology employers in Bellevue and Redmond. When a software engineer, accountant or office manager compares your offer with a big-company benefits package, the medical plan, the employer contribution and the dental and vision coverage are part of that comparison.

Most of our Bellevue clients are professional services firms, software and engineering companies, medical and dental practices, real estate offices, and the retailers and restaurants around downtown and Bellevue Square. They rarely need the most expensive plan on the market. They need a plan design that looks competitive to the people they are trying to hire and that the business can afford to keep.

What that means for your plan

Higher-income employees often value a high-deductible plan paired with an HSA, plus strong dental, vision and life and disability coverage. Firms with a mix of salaried and hourly staff may do better offering two plan options instead of one. Some growing companies use an ICHRA to set a fixed budget while employees choose individual coverage.

Many Eastside teams are hybrid or spread across King and Snohomish counties, so we check that a network works where employees actually live, not just near the office.

Benefits we place for employers here

• Group health insurance quoted across Premera, Regence, Kaiser Permanente and the other Washington carriers
• Group dental and group vision, employer paid or voluntary
• Group life and disability coverage
• Level-funded health plans for healthy groups that want a chance at unused claims dollars
• Voluntary benefits including accident, hospital, critical illness, LegalShield and IDShield
• HRA, HSA and pre-tax plans, plus COBRA administration and ACA compliance

Local network considerations

Bellevue employees usually want Overlake Medical Center, EvergreenHealth in Kirkland and the Eastside clinics of the larger Seattle health systems in network, and many also see specialists in Seattle. Carrier networks differ on which of those systems they include and at what tier, so we compare provider lists against your employees’ home ZIP codes before recommending a plan.

Areas we serve near Bellevue

We work with employers across the Eastside, including Redmond, Kirkland, Issaquah, Sammamish, Mercer Island and Newcastle, and west across the lake into Seattle and south to Renton.