Law firms of all sizes face significant challenges in providing affordable health insurance for their employees. And we have heard from MSBA members that there is a growing interest in exploring possible solutions by pooling together the purchasing power of MSBA employers and their employees to obtain affordable health insurance coverage. Developing an association health plan (AHP) will allow smaller employers to obtain coverage on terms similar to those currently available only to large employers.
The MSBA has engaged with Mercer, a national employee benefit consulting firm with a division that focuses exclusively on offering association benefit programs. The first step in this venture is to collect information about you and your employees that will be used exclusively for obtaining a competitive health care and benefits program from select insurance carriers and evaluating the feasibility of an AHP offering. Providing this information does not obligate you or your organization to participate in any eventual AHP sponsored by the MSBA. A comprehensive response from you and your peers will help the MSBA obtain the most competitive offering possible while accurately gauging the possibility of offering an AHP.
To help in this process, please visit https://census.mercer.com/msba/ as soon as you can. Our data collection effort will end June 30, 2019. The URL has complete instructions on providing the information, and the process should take you no more than 10 minutes. You will be required to enter the Association ID of MSBA1234 and your Membership ID. If you do not have a Membership ID, or it is not readily available, you can enter the Association ID in the field instead. If you have questions regarding the submission of data using the Mercer Data collection tool, please contact Mercer's Help Desk at MercerMarketplace365+CustomerSupport2@mercer.com.