Employers

Employers without Group Plans

Defined Contribution Plans

Learn how defined-contribution health plans (HRAs) can save your company thousands each year per employee over traditional group plans.

Getting Started with Defined Contribution ZaneHRA

Get step-by-step instructions on setting up your own HRA to provide inexpensive health benefits to your employees.

Dental, Vision & Wellness HRA

Encourage employees to stay healthy by offering first-dollar coverage for dental, vision, chiropractic, etc.

Employers with Group Plans

Deductible-Gap ZaneHRA

Save $2000/employee on your group plan by raising the Deductible and adding ZaneHRA and ZaneAMC.

New-Hire ZaneHRA

Save $300-$1,000/month on every new employee by extending the waiting period and offering ZaneHRA to cover the gap in coverage.

Dental, Vision & Wellness HRA

Encourage employees to stay healthy by offering first-dollar coverage for dental, vision, chiropractic, etc.

COBRA-Alternative ZaneHRA

Save money and protect your group plan by offering a COBRA-Alternative ZaneHRA instead of expensive, temporary COBRA coverage.

Retirement ZaneHRA

Save money by giving employees over 40 a financial incentive to opt out of the group plan by offering a Retirement ZaneHRA.

Helping Employees With Preexisting Conditions

Some form of state-guaranteed coverage is now available for employees with preexisting medical conditions in all 50 states, regardless of income.

Testimonials

Read how Zane Benefits has helped other employers.

In the News

CNN Live! on HRAs

CNN

"Individual insurance is by and large the way to go for most people, but most people are clueless about how to buy individual insurance, The big change is that this year a company can give you an allowance and say 'Go buy your own [individual insurance], tax-free, and I'll reimburse you for it.'"

Cut Health Care Costs With Individual Plans

Wells Fargo

"Through HRAs, you can offer 'defined contribution healthcare,' giving your employees a fixed amount of money to buy their own policy," Pilzer says.

Paul Zane Pilzer Checks the Pulse of Healthcare Insurance

MCNews

"Healthcare costs currently exceed profits for the Fortune 500. Why be in business? If healthcare costs go up 15% a year, even if a CEO can improve company profits 12% a year, it's not enough."

Group Coverage Too Pricey?

BusinessWeek

"Workers with serious illnesses will pay more than their colleagues, but business owners no longer have to worry that switching to individual plans will leave some employees uninsured."

Hands On Health Care

Inc. Magazine

"Paul Zane Pilzer, an economist and author of The New Health Insurance Solution, argues that with savings like that, employers should move toward canceling their group policies and encourage all of their employees to purchase their insurance individually."

You Can Provide Healthcare Benefits

Inc. Magazine

"In a defined contribution plan, you provide your employees with a tax-free allowance (contribution) to spend on their own healthcare—at an annual fixed cost that you control. Employees use this allowance to pay for the premium on an individual/family health insurance policy."

For Employers with Group Plans
Retirement ZaneHRA

Save money and improve your company’s workplace with a Retirement ZaneHRA

  • Save money and improve your company’s workplace by giving employees over 40 a financial incentive to opt out of the group plan, by offering a Retirement ZaneHRA.
  • Retirement ZaneHRAs save thousands on health benefits because employees age 55 to 65 consume, on average, three times as much in health benefits as do employees age 35.

Benefits of a Retirement ZaneHRA

  • Employees who no longer want to work do not remain at your company just to participate in your group health plan.
  • Ex-employees can purchase short-term or permanent Individual/Family policies online or via telephone at 800-391-9209.
  • ZaneHRA allows seamless management of your Retirement ZaneHRA program and easy access by employees and managers.
  • Employers may make tax-free contributions to a retirement HRA up to the value of the retiree's accumulated vacation and sick leave—employees save on income taxes and employers save on FICA.