{"id":7293,"date":"2020-03-11T11:17:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T15:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peakinsuranceadvisors.com\/?p=7293"},"modified":"2020-03-11T11:33:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T15:33:03","slug":"how-to-lower-health-insurance-premiums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peakinsuranceadvisors.com\/how-to-lower-health-insurance-premiums\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Lower Health Insurance Premiums"},"content":{"rendered":"
As a small business health insurance broker in NY, we get a lot of calls and emails from people looking for ways to lower their health insurance premiums. Many ask if they can join an association or get into a group of other small businesses to combine their number to negotiate lower insurance rates. Others simply want ways to keep their current insurance carrier but lower what they pay in premiums each month. Whether you are a small business or individual, here are some ways how to lower health insurance premiums.<\/p>\n
In general, small business health insurance plans are already rated based on multiple businesses being combined for insurance purposes. When a carrier offers say plan XYZ, many businesses will offer that plan to their employees. This has the same effect as having multiple employers join together to negotiate lower rates. In essence, the small business market is already made up of many businesses\u2026tens of thousands of employees, all being combined as a \u2018purchasing block\u2019 used to come up with a rate for the overall enrollment in that plan. An association or a combination of multiple businesses has no better bargaining power than the tens of thousands of individual employees from multiple separate businesses. Both end up providing the same coverage to tens of thousands of people\u2026and the rates are based on the same tens of thousands of enrolled people\u2026regardless of if they are from an association, multiple businesses bargaining together, or from multiple separate businesses.<\/p>\n
Whether you are a small business or have insurance in the individual marketplace, here are a few options to consider to lower your rates:<\/p>\n
Call a licensed health insurance broker to assist you in finding and comparing plans in your area. In New York, Health Insurance Brokers do not cost anything to use, and premiums are the same if you use a broker or call the carrier directly. \u00a0So you have nothing to lose by using a broker and accessing their knowledge and assistance. Brokers can assist you in finding and comparing plans and will continue to do that each and every year, even if you have to move from one carrier to the next during that time. They work for you and not the insurance company, so they should be a trusted resource in this area.<\/p>\n