Benefitfocus Partnerships
Benefitfocus recognizes the strategic value of partners who provide innovative products or services to consumers on the BENEFITFOCUS® Platform. The goal of our partnership program is to deliver a unique solution to the marketplace that provides employers with a better way to manage their benefits.
Benefitfocus partners with leading technology and benefits administration companies in five key categories: Health & Wellness, Voluntary Benefits, Finance, Benefits Administration/Payroll and Communication. If your company is interested in working with Benefitfocus, please fill out our Partnership Questionnaire.
Strategic Partnerships
Benefitfocus strategic partners are fundamental to the growth and success of Benefitfocus. Strategic partners offer a complementary product or technology that is integrated with the core Benefitfocus offering, delivering a more comprehensive solution and enhancing the overall client experience. Currently, we have the following strategic partners:
The combined solution offers proven, scalable data integration between Benefitfocus’ Web-based Platform and NASCO’s membership system, MembersEdge®. This allows BCBS Plans to make the latest technology available to their customers without a lengthy implementation or a cost-prohibitive investment in custom software.
SuccessFactors
Benefitfocus and SuccessFactors have teamed up to deliver a full suite of cloud-based benefits, HR and talent management technology. Through this go-to-market alliance, Benefitfocus and SuccessFactors are each other's preferred strategic partner for benefits management and human resources management, respectively.
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic, a worldwide leader in medical care, research and education will provide new health and wellness products and services through HR InTouch. The alliance between Benefitfocus and Mayo Clinic will provide HR InTouch customers access to Mayo Clinic Health Assessment, the EmbodyHealth portal, and over 3,000 Mayo Clinic articles and videos. Benefitfocus will also offer Mayo Clinic’s award winning telephonic and online Ask Mayo Clinic nurse service, the EmbodyHealth Newsletter and Mayo Clinic books.
Apps on the Benefitfocus Platform
Apps allow you to make your company's products, software, content or tools available to employers and their employees through Benefitfocus HR InTouch. Apps are fully integrated with the HR InTouch online enrollment and employee communications portal, so employees and HR teams can easily access your app from the same platform they use to manage their benefits, personal information and daily tasks. It’s our "All Your Benefits. One Place." strategy at work.
All of our app developers complete a formal application and certification process. Once the approval and implementation process is finalized, we’ll work with your internal sales and marketing teams to introduce your app to the market. If your company is interested in building an app for Benefitfocus, please complete our Partnership Questionnaire.
Voluntary Benefits
Voluntary Benefits Apps integrate life, disability, critical illness and other products with an employer’s core medical enrollment process, eliminating the extra steps that can sometimes deter voluntary benefits participation. By developing an app for Benefitfocus, voluntary benefits providers get the most out of existing technology investments.
Apps include:
Aflac App created by Aflac
Allstate Benefits App created by Allstate Benefits
ING Benefits App created by ING
Unum App created by Unum
Health and Wellness
Whether they are company-wide programs or personalized health alerts, Health and Wellness Apps help consumers take control of their health and deliver tools to the consumers who need them. Employers select and deliver your app through HR InTouch.
Apps include:
Genetic Wellness App created by Navigenics
Just InTime Wellness App created by SCIOinspire
Personal Health Assessment App created by Benefitfocus
Benefits Administration/Payroll
These apps provide additional benefits administration capabilities and services to our employer customers, expanding the administrative capabilities that are available on the Platform. Types of companies developing Benefits Administration Apps include:
- COBRA and FSA/HSA/HRA administrators
- Telephonic and face-to-face enrollment firms
- Fulfillment vendors
- Full-service billing providers
Payroll Apps combine our enrollment technology with your payroll processing and services, giving employers access to an integrated enrollment, HR and payroll system. We partner with payroll companies that provide tools for payroll administration, timesheets, direct deposit, reporting and tax calculations.
Apps include:
Discovery Benefits App created by Discovery Benefits
PayChoice App created by PayChoice
Finance
Financial calculators, identity protection services and content libraries help users better manage their personal finances and plan for retirement. Claims data analysis allows employers to track healthcare costs when planning for benefit management. Finance Apps incorporate these types of tools with HR InTouch, so employers can easily select the financial management resources they want to offer their HR staff and employees.
Apps include:
Data Analytics App created by Benefit Informatics
Financial Wellness App created by Consolidated Credit Counseling Services
InfoArmor App created by InfoArmor
Plan Shopping App created by Benefitfocus
Total Compensation App created by Benefitfocus
Communications
HR Administrators can help employees understand the complexities of healthcare and benefits with powerful communication tools including video and content libraries. Our Communications Apps are designed to meet the specific communication challenges of employers, taking advantage of the HR InTouch portal’s engaging, interactive user experience.
Apps include:
Video Library App created by Benefitfocus
Video Portal App created by Benefitfocus