Data and Insights to Make Informed Benefits Decisions
At Alera Group, we offer robust benchmarking capabilities and insights to help you evaluate your plan’s effectiveness and maximize cost savings, providing you with a distinct competitive edge. Our experts will work with you to:
- Analyze your plan data against national, regional, industry and peer group parameters for cost, plan and policy comparisons
- Gain insight into comparative benefits pricing and solutions to maximize cost savings
- View your benefits and benefits costs across the organization for a holistic view of spending
- Understand how to implement the right strategies based on the data
- Stay current on the latest trends and solutions to control benefits costs
- Develop metrics to measure plan performance and return on investment (ROI)
- Analyze medical, dental, disability, leave and ancillary plans, including design elements such as deductible, coinsurance, copays, durations, elimination periods and more to optimize savings.
Your local Alera Group team can help you implement a competitive benefits plan that works for your business.
Benefits Benchmarking
Offering you insights and control over spending.

Benchmarking Infographic
Updated for 2024, see the key findings of the benchmarking report.

EXPERT EDUCATION
Events and Webinars
Employee Benefits
HIPAA Privacy and Security Overview
Join our compliance experts for an overview of HIPAA’s Privacy and Security Rules. During this webinar, we'll review the different types of entities subject to HIPAA, take an in-depth look at protected health information (PHI), individual rights under HIPAA and what to do when there is a breach of PHI.
April 11, 2025 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual
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Employee Benefits
Balancing Cost and Care: Could a Captive solution be the right fit for you?
In this session, our experts will discuss how Captive solutions work and what you need to consider for your own group’s needs.
April 17, 2025 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual
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2025 Healthcare and Employee Benefits Benchmarking Report: How Does Your Benefits Program Stack Up?
In this session, our experts will dive into the results of our annual, market-leading benchmarking survey.
June 26, 2025 at 01:00 pm CT | Virtual
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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Insights
Employee Benefits
Getting the Most From Your Voluntary Benefit Offerings
Join Alera Group on Thursday, March 20, as we present the next in our Engage series of webinars, "Maximizing Impact: The Value of Voluntary Benefits for Today’s Workforce."
March 6, 2025
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Building Connections To Support Employee Mental Health
Mental Health Awareness Month begins in May, but to emphasize mental wellbeing as a year-round priority, Alera Group is getting an early start on distributing our new Mental Health Awareness Toolkit. Designed and refined by our Wellbeing team, the Toolkit is an employer resource to help you and your employees adopt healthy activities, build social connections and erode stigmas that have long hampered discussion of mental health.
March 4, 2025
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Weighty Matter: Obesity, GLP-1s and the Rising Cost of Healthcare
Obesity and health problems associated with it — including heart disease and stroke, high blood pressure, several types of cancer, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea and more — are primary factors that must be considered as employers seek to contain healthcare costs for their employers, as well as for themselves.
February 26, 2025
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Reminder: RxDC Reporting Due June 1
With the 2024 reference year RxDC reporting deadline approaching in June, plan sponsors should refamiliarize themselves with the reporting requirements. The 2024 reference year RxDC Reporting Instructions have been released, though there were no changes to the reporting requirements or data elements from last year.
February 10, 2025
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