Benefits Administration Technology

When the plan document, the census and the claims report live in different inboxes, nobody works from the same facts.

An HR team answers questions from employees, executives and auditors, often on the same day. We keep compliance documents, claims analytics, benchmarking and census data in one place that your HR team and your account team both use, so every answer starts from the current version.

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What It Holds

Four kinds of records, kept current rather than merely kept.

A shared folder fills with drafts and duplicates. We maintain the hub as a working record, updated as the plans change.

Compliance Documents

Plan documents, summary plan descriptions, amendments, notices and filings, each marked with the version in force. When a plan changes mid-year we update the record, so no one hands an auditor last year’s document.

Claims Analytics

Monthly claims and large-claimant reporting, stored next to the renewal it informed. Seeing trend beside the decision it drove is what makes the next renewal conversation shorter and better.

Benchmarking

Your contributions and plan designs compared with peers in your industry and region. We keep each year’s comparison, so you can see how your position has moved, not only where it sits today.

Census Data

The census every quote, model and filing depends on. We maintain one current version, because a quote built on an out-of-date census is a quote for a different company.

How DATUM keeps the census and records current →

Why It Matters

Records get tested at the worst moment: an audit letter, a dispute, a departing HR lead.

The value of one home base shows up when someone asks for a document with a deadline attached. We organize it for that day, not only for everyday convenience.

A Government Request

An audit request asks for plan documents, notices and proof they were distributed. With everything in one place, responding means assembling a file rather than searching for one, which takes the panic out of a stressful process.

Staff Turnover

When the person who knew where everything lived moves on, the knowledge should stay. A shared hub means the next HR lead inherits a system, not a list of passwords and a personal drive.

Your Outside Advisors

When a CPA or attorney needs a document, they should get the current one. We coordinate that access through the firm, so outside advisors work from the same record as your team.

What a DOL or IRS audit asks for →

Shared With Your Account Team

The hub stays useful because both sides work in it.

A portal only the client logs into goes stale. Your account team uses the same records every day, which is what keeps them current.

Renewal Work

Our renewal analysis draws on the same census, claims and benchmarks your team sees. When you ask why we made a recommendation, the data behind it is already in front of you.

Open Enrollment

Enrollment materials, rate sheets and notices for the coming year are staged in the hub before enrollment opens. HR reviews and approves them in one place rather than across a dozen email threads.

Year-End Reporting

ACA and Form 5500 work draws on census and plan records kept all year. Because those records are current, year-end starts from a clean file, and we can help you with the filing without reconstructing the year.

How open enrollment is run as a project →

Common Questions

What HR teams ask about the hub.

Does this replace our HR system?

No. Your HR and payroll system remains the system of record for employees. The hub holds the benefits documents and analysis around it, so the two do different jobs.

Who can see what?

Access is set by role. Census and claims data are limited to the people who need them, because claims reporting, even in summary form, is sensitive and should be handled that way.

How often is it updated?

As things change: at renewal, with each plan amendment and whenever a notice goes out. We tie updates to the events that change the record, not to a calendar reminder that gets skipped.

How our benefits technology fits together →

Let’s Get to Work

Send us your renewal.

We’ll tell you whether it looks competitive, where we see opportunity, and the five questions we’d put to your carrier. No cost, and no obligation to move anything.

What to send

The renewal letter
Your current plan summary
Contribution split by tier
Enrolled counts by tier

Four documents — two more if your group is 50 or more. Nothing else; every extra one is a reason to postpone.

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