Serving Higher Education Institutions

Preserve Retiree Health Benefits

Our solutions help you seamlessly transition eligible retirees into Medicare, reduce costs and administrative burden, and significantly enhance the benefits experience for members.

Retiree Health Benefits are Critical, but Costly and Confusing

Administering retiree health benefits is a significant, time consuming challenge for higher education organizations and their benefits teams. Rising costs and long term liabilities make it difficult to balance the budget and plan for the future.

Find the Path to Better Benefits and Experiences

We specialize in helping higher education organizations safeguard and enhance retiree health benefits while reducing your costs and time spent. Our proprietary partnerships with major national carriers, regional health plans, and TPAs mean you’ll have access to the most robust offerings and rates. More importantly, you can focus on other priorities knowing our experts are handling the administrative responsibilities and your retirees are in good hands with our Advocates throughout their benefits journey.

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Achieve Significant Value

Benefits of RetireeFirst for Higher Education Institutions include:

  • Annual market analysis to ensure competitive benefits and renewals rates
  • Reduced long-term liabilities
  • Reducing benefit staff workload giving back valuable hours in their day
  • Satisfied and healthier members

Lower Costs and Fewer Headaches

Educational organizations working with RetireeFirst can achieve:

  • 20–50% Immediate bottom-line savings for groups moving to Medicare Advantage for the first time
  • Hundreds of hours saved per year
  • Reduced long-term liabilities
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Protecting Benefits for Higher Education Retirees

Benefits of RetireeFirst for Higher Education retirees include:

  • Reduced premiums and out-of-pocket costs
  • Personalized Advocacy services and support with MemberFirst
  • Retirees talk to a live person based in the U.S.
  • Outbound calls made on retirees’ behalf
  • Guidance to lower-cost drug or benefit alternatives

Explore our Services and Solutions:

Our end-to-end Retiree Benefit Management solution helps plan sponsors design, implement, manage, and administer group retiree healthcare benefits. We reduce costs and administrative burden for plan sponsors while significantly enhancing the benefits experience and helping improve health and wellness for members.

We identify Medicare-eligible retirees, conduct cost–benefit analyses to determine right-fit plans, and then seamlessly transition retirees into Medicare. TransitionFirst takes the administrative burden off plan sponsors and makes Medicare migration easy for members.

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City of Denton

“I can’t fully express how much I appreciate the great job the Retiree First team does with our retirees when assisting with issues. The Advocates go above and beyond to help our members feel comfortable.”

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County Commissioners of Worcester County

“Throughout the implementation process, RetireeFirst was very supportive and provided a thorough explanation. During a time of difficult transition for retirees, they were helpful in answering our members’ questions about providers and pharmacy.”

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Los Angeles County Office of Education

Mildred Butler

“It is wonderful speaking with a human rather than a chat bot! I appreciated my Advocate’s thoughtfulness and sweet demeanor. This company is a breath of fresh air.”

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Learn More about how RetireeFirst Enhances Higher Education Institutions’ Health Benefits

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