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Healthcare Reform – Individual Mandate Health Insurance
July 2010 – Effective January 1st, 2014, "applicable individuals" will be required to maintain "minimum essential coverage" for themselves and their dependents. "Applicable individuals" who fail to maintain "minimum essential coverage" will be required to pay a "penalty" on their tax return.
NIHN Prescription Assistance Program
October 2009 – Working to optimize health and promoting solutions designed to achieve high quality, cost-effective health care, North Idaho Health Network is partnering with MEDPro ( a corporate affiliate of Design Benefits) to add a Prescription Assistance Program to the services they offer their 270 member physicians and five member hospitals in the five Northern Counties of Idaho.
Prescription Assistance Program Offered
Jan 2008 - Design Benefits has added to their portfolio of health care related services by offering a prescription assistance program. This program is available nationwide to individuals and their families who need maintenance medications but are unable to afford them.
About Design Benefits
Our Headquarters
Founded in 1995 by Tina Jeffrey, Design Benefits is a multi-faceted healthcare benefits consultation firm that is a single source of benefit solutions for employers especially those with multiple work locations, in today’s challenging high cost healthcare benefit environment.
Ms. Jeffrey has over twenty years of expertise in employee insurance programs and plan administration. Under her leadership a team of experienced benefit specialists design and implement innovative benefit services to ensure the highest quality of employee benefits for clients’ benefit dollars.
Design Benefits maintains the following divisions of operations:
- Third Party Administration
- Health, Disability and Life
- Wellness Programs
- Retirement Planning and Services
- Web Development and Intranet
The services of every division are tailored to the specific needs of each client. Within these divisions clients may choose to bundle or unbundled desired services, this platform allows clients the most flexible level of benefits and services, while keeping the costs associated with managing employee benefits in line.
Our Management Team
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Tina Jeffrey President Phone: (208) 765-7755 Ext 302 Email: tina@designbenefitsonline.com  |
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Holly Miller Director of Sales and Operations |
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Kara Jeffrey Office Manager |
Location
Headquartered in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Design Benefits works with companies nationwide to identify and develop the best employee benefits programs for their clients.
Design Benefits Philosophy
“The courage to do what is right for the client, keeping their needs above all other considerations.”
That, along with the Design Benefits personalized service, continues to help clients meet the demands of escalating costs and challenges in the employee benefits arena.
From benefit design to implementation to maintenance to oversight of regulatory compliance, Design Benefits is the “go to” firm in today’s challenging benefits marketplace.
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Innovative Design Delivery
Design Benefits is a leading, national employee benefits firm and a provider of Third Party Administration (TPA) services.
We offer healthcare, disability and life programs, prescription assistance programs, wellness, as well as Retirement Planning and Services. Through an advanced innovative web-based platform called Virtual Benefits Administration System (Vbas®) clients are offered a menu of services that help streamline the administration processes for efficient data management. We also offer the latest in online technology to help facilitate online benefit administration.
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