Employers the world over know that todays “always-on” workplace cultures and unique pressures has heightened workplace stress and burnout. Boosting mental health and well-being benefits is now more important than ever.
A fully insured indemnity plan at its core, WellPak is designed to address the deficiency of mental health benefits instilled by traditional health insurance plans by providing:
- Coverage for mental health treatments, prescriptions, and more.
- Coverage for wellness treatments, such as massage therapy.
- Connect & Thrive: an embedded service that includes behavioral health and well-being. assessment, care navigation, coaching and counseling support services. *
- Coverage toward elective Executive Physicals for members and enrolled spouse. **
*Connect & Thrive services are provided by BHS. Founded in 1983, BHS is a well-being provider operated by tenured, experienced behavioral health professionals.
** Executive Physicals are only available with WellPak’s top tier plan.
Why Focus on Mental Health Benefits?
There are clear connections between employee mental health and productivity, job satisfaction, workplace safety, and ultimately the bottom line.
- 73% of employers identified mental wellness for employees as a priority, even before the upheaval from the pandemic.
- Depression and anxiety disorders cost the global economy US $1 trillion each year in lost productivity. (WHO, 2019)
- 75% of employees report suffering from burnout, making it 3x more likely they will leave a job. (Gallup 2018, 2020)
Traditional approaches to addressing mental health benefits, such as EAPs and carrier programs, have consistently fallen short.
- 2/3 of employees feel their employers’ mental health benefits are inadequate. (The Hartford Future of Benefits Study, 2020)
- Behavioral health office visits are 5x more likely to be out-of-network than primary care appointments. (Milliman, 2020)
WellPak can help:
- Ensure employees have ample coverage for mental health care.
- Eliminate the barriers employees face when trying to access effective resources.
- Reduce the stigma associated with seeking treatment.