How Does Beyond Med Work for Benefits Brokers and Consultants?

Beyond Med gives brokers and consultants one platform to bring clients that expands employees' access to supplemental and elective care, helps them save at the point of service through participating-provider pricing, and adds Concierge support. Employers can offer it voluntarily or sponsor it, and it is designed to complement the client's existing benefits strategy, not replace any part of it. This page explains how the partnership works, what to bring to a client review, and where compensation and compliance questions go.

What Is the One-Sentence Version a Broker Can Use?

Beyond Med helps a client's employees find, choose and afford care that traditional benefits often leave out or limit, through participating providers, contracted member pricing and Concierge help, while giving the employer insight into what its workforce is actually seeking. Beyond Med is not insurance, and members pay participating providers directly.

What Problem Does It Solve for a Client Conversation?

Employees look for care outside the medical plan: weight management including GLP-1 programs, fertility, skin care, pain relief, mental wellness, vision and hearing, functional and longevity services. Those services are often excluded, limited or hard to navigate, and employers usually cannot see that demand in their plan data. A broker can respond by adding a separate vendor for each category, or by bringing one access layer across many. Beyond Med is built for the second approach, and it can sit next to specialised programs a client already has, such as a fertility, weight-management or mental-health vendor, or an employee assistance program.

How Can the Benefit Be Offered?

• Voluntary and employee-paid. Employees opt in and typically pay through payroll deduction. There may be no direct employer funding, though the employer still puts in setup, payroll, eligibility and communication effort.
• Employer-sponsored. The employer pays for access for eligible employees, and depending on the arrangement, families.
• Client-specific arrangement. Eligibility and funding designed around the client's population.

Pricing is quoted for each group, is not published, and can differ between the voluntary and sponsored structures. Beyond Med can work with the broker and the client on quoting, enrollment, implementation, ongoing communication and engagement reporting.

Who Does What During Implementation?

Which benefits-platform integrations and file methods are available depends on the client's systems and is confirmed during implementation.

What Should a Broker Bring to a Client Review?

• Client name and desired effective date
• Number of eligible employees and the eligibility rules the client prefers
• Employee locations
• Funding structure under consideration
• Any service categories or providers the client's employees ask about

Beyond Med can review the employee census against current provider access by location and delivery method, and can use client priorities and member nominations to guide targeted provider recruitment. Recruitment is an effort, not a guarantee that a specific provider will join.

What Does a Broker Earn?

Broker compensation is discussed directly with Beyond Med and is not published on this page. Contact Beyond Med to talk through the arrangement that applies to your book and your client.

What About ERISA, the ACA and Other Compliance Questions?

Beyond Med is not insurance, and it should not be represented as satisfying an employer's obligation to offer health coverage. Whether a client's arrangement is treated as an ERISA plan, or how the ACA applies to the client's overall benefits, can depend on funding, endorsement, eligibility and administration. Those determinations belong with the employer and its counsel or benefits advisers. Beyond Med describes how the product works and supports the administration the client selects.

Where Is It a Good Fit, and Where Is It Not?

Fit depends on employee demand, geography, enrollment method and administrative economics. There is no fixed minimum client size. Beyond Med cannot promise a provider in every location or that a particular service is available to every member, and a client with a widely distributed workforce should compare the value against actual network access. A client that needs a deeply managed clinical program in one category may still want a specialised vendor, and Beyond Med can complement it.

How Do I Start?

Email info@beyondmedplans.com or call 1-844-267-6192 and ask for a broker conversation or a client review. Beyond Med for employers

Key Takeaways

• Beyond Med is one platform for care beyond traditional benefits: access, point-of-service savings and Concierge support, plus insight into workforce demand.
• Clients can offer it voluntarily or sponsor it. Group pricing is quoted per client and not published.
• Brokers can ask for a census-based network-access review and a client-specific proposal.
• Compensation terms are not published here. Contact Beyond Med directly.
• ERISA and ACA questions go to the employer's own counsel or benefits adviser.
• Beyond Med is not insurance, and members pay participating providers directly.

Key Terms Glossary

Voluntary benefit: A benefit an employer offers that employees elect and typically pay for themselves, often through payroll deduction.

Employer-sponsored benefit: A benefit the employer pays for on behalf of eligible employees.

Census review: Comparing where a client's employees live and what services they want against current participating-provider access.

Concierge Team: Beyond Med staff who help members find providers, confirm pricing and coordinate appointments.

Discount medical plan: A membership program that arranges contracted prices with participating providers. Members pay those providers directly. It is not insurance.

FAQ

What is Beyond Med, in terms a client will understand?

It expands employees' access to supplemental and elective care, helps them save at the point of service through participating-provider pricing, and gives them Concierge help finding and navigating options. It complements other health benefits and does not replace them.

Does a client have to pay for it?

Not necessarily. A voluntary, employee-paid structure may involve no direct employer funding, and an employer-sponsored option is also available. Pricing is quoted per group.

How is this different from a coupon book or discount card?

The discount is one part. Beyond Med combines a contracted provider network, provider search, Concierge navigation, targeted provider recruitment, enrollment administration and demand insight. A static list of discounts offers none of that structure.

Will Beyond Med work alongside a client's other benefit vendors?

Yes. It is designed to complement a client's existing benefits and can coexist with specialised programs and employee assistance services.

What does a broker earn?

Compensation is discussed directly with Beyond Med and is not published on this page.

Is Beyond Med subject to ERISA or the ACA?

That depends on how the client funds, endorses and administers the arrangement. It should be decided by the employer with its counsel or benefits advisers.

What if the network is thin where a client's employees live?

Beyond Med reviews current access by location first and can target recruitment using client priorities and member nominations. It cannot guarantee that a specific provider will join or a completion date.

How do I request a client review?

Email info@beyondmedplans.com or call 1-844-267-6192 with the client's name, effective date, eligible employee count, locations and funding structure.