If you are a public sector employer of 200 or more benefit-eligible employees, self-funding, or self-insuring your medical and pharmacy plan(s) is an essential option to consider. Let’s compare fully insured to self-insured plans: Fully Insured Self-Insured • Insurance company…
For more than 30 years, Valley Schools has served school districts and other governmental agencies in administrative, financial or public service positions, providing our more than 35,000 members with the absolute best pricing in employee benefits and affordable, group health…
We’re approaching the new years and if you’re anything like the majority of us, you’re teetering on the edge of serving yourself a new years resolution so big that its bound to come with a heaping side of guilt once…
If you’re contemplating and planning for retirement, there is much to consider. The basics come to mind first, housing, food, transportation, travel to “bucket list” locales, gifts for the grandkids and - last but certainly not least - health care…
Believe it or not, humans were not meant to sit at a desk all day. Physical activity is extremely important to maintain a healthy body and mind. There is no shortage of research that shows how exercise improves our overall…
Most public sector employers cover partial, if not the full, premium rate of one or more of the medical and pharmacy plans offered to employees. While it is a significant cost for employers to cover premium rates, subsiding your medicals…
Have you ever considered starting a benefits committee to help assess and provide feedback from an employee level? It can be a tremendous asset to an employer to give employees a voice in their healthcare options. In most cases, benefits…
At Valley Schools, we stay updated on the latest healthcare news so we can better serve you and your employees. The healthcare industry is such a complex system, sometimes it lags behind current technology trends because of its intricate details…
Improving our lives begins with improving our health. Valley Schools provides employees with ways to cultivate healthy change every day by providing a platform to track daily improvements and tools and resources to support change. For example, water intake, healthy…
It’s that time of year again, summer is over and the school year is in full force. Students are returning to classes and the weather is cooling off, so your school district employees are at a high risk of getting…