What is SimplyInsured?
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Background
SimplyInsured is a health insurance marketplace and administration platform that helps small businesses find and manage employee benefits like medical, dental, and vision coverage from over 200 major carriers. Patriot’s partnership with SimplyInsured gives you an easy way to offer benefits that connect directly with your payroll system or integrate your current health benefits.
SimplyInsured will act as both the broker of record and the benefits administrator for your health benefits.
Integration of Health Benefits for Employers
Instead of juggling multiple websites and logins, our free integration with SimplyInsured provides a seamless experience within your Patriot payroll software account so you can:
- Shop for health insurance plans from top carriers.
- Compare costs and coverage side by side.
- Simplify benefit management under your Patriot login.
- Automatically sync benefit deductions with Patriot payroll.
After your company has purchased health benefits through SimplyInsured–or assigned SimplyInsured as the broker of record to your existing health benefits– everything is managed from within your payroll software account.
This saves time, reduces paperwork, and helps ensure accuracy in both the insurance setup and your payroll runs.
Integration of Health Benefit for Employees
Your employees will be able to elect and manage their benefits in the the benefits portal offered by SimplyInsured. A link to the SimplyInsured employee benefits portal will be available in My Patriot employee portal for easy access.
Once the employee has elected their health benefits payroll deductions are seamlessly synched to the payroll software without the need for employer intervention.
FAQs
Read our help article, “How to Find Health Benefits” or “Integrate Your Existing Health Plan” for information on how to proceed.
Yes. If you already have health insurance, you can transfer your plan to SimplyInsured so they become your broker of record. This allows Patriot to connect your plan with payroll. There is no change in your plan and this can be done at any time of the year.
SimplyInsured makes it easy to start from scratch. You can shop for plans, enroll employees, and set everything up right inside payroll software. No additional logins needed!
Each employee will access and manage their benefits through the SimplyInsured employee benefits portal. Employees will need to create a username and password to access the portal. They’ll log in to review plan options, compare coverage, enroll online, and view their coverage details anytime. A “Health Benefits” link in the My Patriot employee portal will open the SimplyInsured employee benefits portal in a new tab for easy login access.
Eligibility is complex and varies by state. We suggest going to the Health Benefits tab in the software and click shop for health benefits and ask any questions to the SimplyInsured support team.
If you are not to buy group help benefits, you can use Stride to shop for and purchase individual health plans. Stride helps uninsured workers find and enroll in coverage.
Once employees confirm they want to participate in the company health benefits plan, they will be able to compare and select the health coverage plan that works best for them in the SimplyInsured employee benefit portal.
There’s no extra cost for using SimplyInsured or for the health benefit integration with Patriot. You’ll just pay the regular insurance premiums for the plans you choose.
Yes. In addition to health coverage, you can also add dental, vision plans, short and long term disability, etc. for your team.
SimplyInsured offers coverage options nationwide, except in Vermont. This means that SimplyInsured does not support employers who are headquartered Vermont (plans are based on a company’s Zip code). Still, if your company is in multiple state locations, we recommend you contact SimplyInsured customer support to discuss your situation.
Please reach out to SimplyInsured for assistance or questions about plans from within the Health Benefits (Payroll > Employees > Health Benefits) to chat with their support. You can also contact them via email patriotsupport@simplyinsured.com, or call SimplyInsured 800-735-4158, 7:00 a.m – 5:00 p.m. PT.
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