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A Practical Benefit Demonstrates Value

How this financial services firm decided to offer Ansel to their team.

Case Studies

A Practical Benefit Demonstrates Value

How this financial services firm decided to offer Ansel to their team.

News

Ansel Health Welcomes New COO, Tom Barone

We are excited to welcome Tom Barone as COO at Ansel Health. We’re thrilled to have Tom join us on our mission to build a world where health hardships don’t create financial burdens.

News

Ansel Health Welcomes New COO, Tom Barone

We are excited to welcome Tom Barone as COO at Ansel Health. We’re thrilled to have Tom join us on our mission to build a world where health hardships don’t create financial burdens.

Member Stories

How Ansel Helps People Seek Care, not Skip it

When people skip care because of the cost, the outcomes can be difficult. Here's how we helped one member use his Ansel benefit to seek care, and get back to work.

Building Ansel

Meet Ansel— Simple, Supplemental Health Insurance

Meet Ansel, a new brand on the same mission to build a world where health hardships don’t create financial burdens.

Case Studies

How Ansel Helped this Employer add a New Benefit with Confidence

An Austin-based employer in the entertainment industry was looking for a new benefit that would meet the needs of their younger employees. Here's how Ansel helped.

Case Studies

Why Ansel Fits into the Reimagined Benefits Strategy

The Ansel team worked with this Texas-based employer in the garment industry to offer their first supplemental health plan to their employees.

Case Studies

A Practical Benefit Demonstrates Value

How this financial services firm decided to offer Ansel to their team.

Case Studies

How Ansel Helped this Employer add a New Benefit with Confidence

An Austin-based employer in the entertainment industry was looking for a new benefit that would meet the needs of their younger employees. Here's how Ansel helped.

Case Studies

Why Ansel Fits into the Reimagined Benefits Strategy

The Ansel team worked with this Texas-based employer in the garment industry to offer their first supplemental health plan to their employees.

Case Studies

Empowering Employers to offer a Valuable Alternative to Voluntary Benefits with Ansel

We worked with an Indiana employer to implement Ansel as a valuable alternative to traditional voluntary plans.

Case Studies

Why a Simple Supplemental Benefit Brought this Team Peace of Mind

We worked with a Georgia-based employer offer employees additional coverage with Ansel and as a result, saw 50% participation. Here's why.

Case Studies

How Ansel Made Offering a Valuable Benefit Simple

We worked with an employer to implement Ansel as a simpler, valuable alternative to traditional voluntary plans without the administrative headaches.

Case Studies

How Ansel Showcased the Power of its Utilization through Data

We analyzed medical claim data of this Texas company to determine which ones would have been eligible for a Ansel benefit had Ansel coverage been in place in 2021.

Case Studies

How Ansel Replaced Three Traditional Voluntary Plans

This computer networking company implemented Ansel and replaced its existing accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity plans because the employer felt it was a simpler option that offered greater value than the three plans combined. Here’s why.

Case Studies

How Ansel Helped Employees Take Control of their Coverage

We worked with a Texas-based employer to offer a supplemental plan that employees wanted to enroll and participate in because of the value it offered them and their families.

Case Studies

How Ansel Helped This Employer Reimagine Their Health Benefits Strategy

We worked with a Georgia-based government employer, in partnership with a top national broker, to help redesign their health plan strategy—and create savings to fund a Ansel plan that would offer employees real value.

Case Studies

How Ansel Filled in the Gaps for Employees with MEC Coverage

We worked with an employer in Texas to implement a supplemental health plan that could help employees with only minimal essential coverage reduce their medical expenses when sudden health hardships pop up.

Case Studies

Why Ansel was the Right Alternative to Traditional Voluntary Benefits

This Texas group wanted a simple supplemental health benefit despite already having access to traditional voluntary benefits. 40% of those that enrolled upgraded their Ansel coverage when it was offered. Here’s why.

Case Studies

How Ansel Implemented an Affordable Health Benefit in Record Time

This group implemented Ansel in three business days, and 40% of the employees participated on a pure voluntary basis. Here's how Ansel helped.

Case Studies

How Ansel Helped Employees Who Waived Major Medical

This Texas-based company implemented Ansel for employees waiving medical coverage because of the cost. We helped fill in the gaps to provide some level of benefits to help with unexpected medical events.

Member Stories

How Ansel Helps People Seek Care, not Skip it

When people skip care because of the cost, the outcomes can be difficult. Here's how we helped one member use his Ansel benefit to seek care, and get back to work.

Member Stories

How Ansel Used Data, and Dedicated Support, to Help Kate

With dedicated support and claims integration, getting the most out of your Ansel coverage is easy. Here’s a real life example of a member who received benefits with Ansel.

Member Stories

The Power of a Single Phone Call— How Ansel Helped John

At Ansel, we take a proactive approach with our members— to empower people to make the most out of their coverage. Here's a real-life example of member who filed a claim with Ansel.

Member Stories

How Ansel Used Data to Help Ashley through Her Treatment

We’re now leveraging the power of medical data to reimagine the claims experience. Here’s a real life example of a member who received benefits with Ansel.

Member Stories

How Ansel Helped Serena Get the Most out of her Coverage

We strive to help employees make the most of their coverage with dedicated support every step of the way. Here’s a real-life example of a member who filed a claim with Ansel.

Member Stories

How Ansel Helped Anna File a Claim from the Hospital

At Ansel, we strive to provide a path for employees to file claims in minutes, and receive benefits in hours, not weeks. Here’s a real-life example of a member who filed a claim with Ansel.

Insurance Innovation

How Ansel is Using Powerful Data to Fuel a New Claims Experience

Earlier this week, our CEO, Veer Gidwaney, dove into how insurance innovators can leverage claims integration to transform the member experience. Here’s what Ansel is doing about it today.

Insurance Innovation

The Key to Helping Your Team Solve the Insurance Puzzle

In honor of National Insurance Day, here are some ways to arm your team with the tools to better understand their health coverage so they can protect the things they care about.

Insurance Innovation

How Financial Literacy Can Set Your Team Up for Success

We’re proud to have participated in a webinar by Nava Benefits to unpack what financial wellness is, and what employers can do to help their teams achieve it in 2022.

How Employers Can Approach Mental Health Support by Leading with Empathy | Ansel

Insurance Innovation

How Employers Can Approach Mental Health Support with Empathy

Mental wellness may be a buzzword, but it’s not something to be taken lightly. In lieu of this mental health awareness month, let’s think about some key ways employers can help their teams achieve mental wellness in 2022.

Insurance Innovation

How Unexpected Health Issues Drive Up Medical Debt

We are proud to have contributed to this year’s “Inside the Wallets of Working Americans Report,” by Salary Finance to understand the financial impact of health hardships today. Here's what we discovered.

Insurance Innovation

The Business Case for Lower Out-of-Pocket Costs

Out-of-pocket costs create an unhealthy cycle of care avoidance, costing employers much more in the long run. Here's the business case for a benefits strategy that lowers employees' cost sharing responsibilities.

Insurance Innovation

How Ansel Supports Your Team through Omicron

Omicron has created tremendous uncertainty amongst employees in 2022. Here's how Ansel helps.

Insurance Innovation

5 Reasons to Add Supplemental Health Insurance in 2022

Amidst the "Great Reshuffle," companies that want to attract and retain talent need to start closing the gaps in their health benefits where pressures can mount and damage their workforce productivity. Here's how Ansel can help.

How to Enhance Health Benefits | Ansel Insurance

Insurance Innovation

How to Enhance Your Health Benefits to Bring Peace of Mind

This year, in light of the “great resignation,” which only seems to be accelerating, health benefits are an opportunity to bring employees some much needed peace of mind. But how? Here are a few strategies to get more out of every health benefit dollar—

Not your Grandma's Supplemental Health Insurance

Insurance Innovation

This Isn’t Your Grandma’s Supplemental Health Insurance Plan

As brokers and employers know all too well, the cost of employee health benefits is rising. Here's how we built a better supplemental health insurance plan to help employers offer better coverage that's easier to use.

Insurance Innovation

Why Women Need Supplemental Health Insurance

Women experience certain health issues exclusively or far more often than men, which means they're more likely to experience the financial impact of a health issue. What kinds of conditions? Here are just a few and how Ansel covers them—

Insurance Innovation

Data Transparency Drives Confident Benefit Decisions

Benefit advisors and employers shouldn’t have to gamble precious benefit dollars. Our game-changing supplemental benefit design allows us to demonstrate the plan’s value and impact with accuracy and transparency up front. Here’s how.

How to design simpler benefits - Amanda Turcotte

Insurance Innovation

How to Design Simpler Insurance Benefits

Ansel is a good case study for how to develop a new insurance benefit from scratch, and I want to share a bit more about our approach to benefit design because I think it can be applied to a wide range of products across the industry.

Dan Aceti of Executive Benefits Group on Better Benefits Podcast

Insurance Innovation

Executive Benefits Outlook with Dan Aceti

Dan Aceti of Executive Benefits Group joined us to chat about the importance of executive benefits, particularly for key employee retention.

Insurance Innovation

Are Hospital Indemnity Plans Worth It for Your Employees?

Hospital indemnity plans cover hospitalizations, but what about other medical emergencies? Here are a few factors to consider.

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Insurance Innovation

How We Redesigned Supplemental Health Insurance

Ansel's Chief Insurance Officer, Amanda Turcotte, reveals the research methodology that helped us redesign supplemental health insurance.

Insurance Innovation

How Insurance Leaders Can Learn to Think 10x

How do we keep burdensome health insurance cost-sharing from delaying care and creating stress? We need benefits that create 10x value.

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Insurance Innovation

The Case For Employer-funded Supplemental Health Insurance

Here’s why it’s time for employers to support and fund a supplemental health insurance solution like Ansel.

Insurance Innovation

11 Books for Benefit Leaders in 2021

A roundup of all the books that have been recommended so far by industry leaders on the Better Benefits Podcast.

Insurance Innovation

4 Health Benefits Strategies That Will Give Your Team Peace of Mind

Here's how to keep your team both healthy and productive with health benefits strategies that give employees peace-of-mind.

Insurance Innovation

4 Ways to Reduce Employees' Unexpected Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Costs

Innovative and practical strategies to help your team manage out-of-pocket healthcare costs and any unexpected expenses that come their way.

Insurance Innovation

3 Signs Your Health Benefits Cost More Than You Think

With COVID-19 affecting employees’ finances, you don’t want gaps in your health benefits strategy adding more financial stress. Here’s why.

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Insurance Innovation

Jumpstart Your 2021 Employee Health Benefits With Off-Cycle Enrollment

For the average family with a deductible and cost-sharing responsibilities, that means medical bills are in the not-too-distant future. Are your employees prepared for that?

Insurance Innovation

3 Strategies to Supercharge Your Health Benefits

Half of Americans now fear a health-related bankruptcy, including employees with employer-sponsored health insurance. Employers need new benefit solutions...

Building Ansel

Meet Ansel— Simple, Supplemental Health Insurance

Meet Ansel, a new brand on the same mission to build a world where health hardships don’t create financial burdens.

Building Ansel

Ansel’s 2022 Year in Review—A Year of Strategic Wins

2022 was another year of strategic wins for Ansel. Here are the most important milestones of our year and what they could mean for you in 2023.

Building Ansel

Ansel’s 2021 Year in Review—A Year of Strategic Wins

2021 was a year of strategic wins for Ansel. Here are the most important milestones of our year and what they might mean for you in 2022.

Building Ansel

How to File a Claim with Ansel

Your Ansel supplemental health insurance plan is designed to pay you cash benefits if you're diagnosed with any of 13,000+ medical conditions. One of our top priorities was to make it easy for you to file a claim and get paid quickly. Not sure where to start? Here's a step by step guide

Building Ansel

How Ansel Helps with COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the reality of financial hardship that too often comes with unexpected medical issues. To address this, we’ve built a new, comprehensive, supplemental insurance plan to cover out-of-pocket medical expenses that health insurance doesn’t cover.

Building Ansel

Building Ansel's Concierge Team: A Force for Yes

We’re staffing a Ansel Concierge team that will be a force for yes in an industry that has become synonymous with no. Isn’t this just a fancy way of talking about customer service? What’s different about Ansel’s Concierge? We’re so glad you asked.

Building Ansel

Why We Built Ansel

We believe that health hardship shouldn’t lead to financial hardship. That’s why we built Ansel—a simple, comprehensive supplemental benefit.

Better Benefits Blog

A Practical Benefit Demonstrates Value

A Practical Benefit Demonstrates Value

Ansel Health Welcomes New COO, Tom Barone

Ansel Health Welcomes New COO, Tom Barone

How Ansel Helps People Seek Care, not Skip it

How Ansel Helps People Seek Care, not Skip it

A Practical Benefit Demonstrates Value

A Practical Benefit Demonstrates Value

Ansel Health Welcomes New COO, Tom Barone

Ansel Health Welcomes New COO, Tom Barone

Get the best of Better Benefits in your inbox once a month.

How Ansel Helps People Seek Care, not Skip it

Meet Ansel— Simple, Supplemental Health Insurance

How Ansel Helped this Employer add a New Benefit with Confidence

Why Ansel Fits into the Reimagined Benefits Strategy

A Practical Benefit Demonstrates Value

How Ansel Helped this Employer add a New Benefit with Confidence

Get the best of Better Benefits in your inbox once a month.

Why Ansel Fits into the Reimagined Benefits Strategy

Empowering Employers to offer a Valuable Alternative to Voluntary Benefits with Ansel

Why a Simple Supplemental Benefit Brought this Team Peace of Mind

How Ansel Made Offering a Valuable Benefit Simple

How Ansel Showcased the Power of its Utilization through Data

How Ansel Replaced Three Traditional Voluntary Plans

How Ansel Helped Employees Take Control of their Coverage

How Ansel Helped This Employer Reimagine Their Health Benefits Strategy

How Ansel Filled in the Gaps for Employees with MEC Coverage

Why Ansel was the Right Alternative to Traditional Voluntary Benefits

How Ansel Implemented an Affordable Health Benefit in Record Time

How Ansel Helped Employees Who Waived Major Medical

How Ansel Helps People Seek Care, not Skip it

How Ansel Used Data, and Dedicated Support, to Help Kate

Get the best of Better Benefits in your inbox once a month.

The Power of a Single Phone Call— How Ansel Helped John

How Ansel Used Data to Help Ashley through Her Treatment

How Ansel Helped Serena Get the Most out of her Coverage

How Ansel Helped Anna File a Claim from the Hospital

How Ansel is Using Powerful Data to Fuel a New Claims Experience

The Key to Helping Your Team Solve the Insurance Puzzle

Get the best of Better Benefits in your inbox once a month.

How Financial Literacy Can Set Your Team Up for Success

How Employers Can Approach Mental Health Support with Empathy

How Unexpected Health Issues Drive Up Medical Debt

The Business Case for Lower Out-of-Pocket Costs

How Ansel Supports Your Team through Omicron

5 Reasons to Add Supplemental Health Insurance in 2022

How to Enhance Your Health Benefits to Bring Peace of Mind

This Isn’t Your Grandma’s Supplemental Health Insurance Plan

Why Women Need Supplemental Health Insurance

Data Transparency Drives Confident Benefit Decisions

How to Design Simpler Insurance Benefits

Executive Benefits Outlook with Dan Aceti

Are Hospital Indemnity Plans Worth It for Your Employees?

How We Redesigned Supplemental Health Insurance

How Insurance Leaders Can Learn to Think 10x

The Case For Employer-funded Supplemental Health Insurance

11 Books for Benefit Leaders in 2021

4 Health Benefits Strategies That Will Give Your Team Peace of Mind

4 Ways to Reduce Employees' Unexpected Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Costs

3 Signs Your Health Benefits Cost More Than You Think

Jumpstart Your 2021 Employee Health Benefits With Off-Cycle Enrollment

3 Strategies to Supercharge Your Health Benefits

Meet Ansel— Simple, Supplemental Health Insurance

Ansel’s 2022 Year in Review—A Year of Strategic Wins

Get the best of Better Benefits in your inbox once a month.

Ansel’s 2021 Year in Review—A Year of Strategic Wins

How to File a Claim with Ansel

How Ansel Helps with COVID-19

Building Ansel's Concierge Team: A Force for Yes

Why We Built Ansel

Delivering Better Care for Black Expectant Mothers with Mae Health

The Power of the Human Touch with Ansel Member Services

Get the best of Better Benefits in your inbox once a month.

Educating Our Employees about Skin Cancer with the Skin Cancer Foundation

Empowering Employees to Take Control of Their Finances with Betterment at Work

Delivering Pharmacy Benefits through the Digital Front Door with Rightway

Creating Equitable Employee Benefits Across the Gender Gap

Designing Better Employee Benefits Starts with a Tribe of Collaborators

Inside the Insights Lab at Omada Health with President, Wei-Li Shao