Confidential · Prepared November 2, 2026

Seacon Corporation · Medical renewal

Your Blue Cross renewal vs. Vensure HR

Vensure HR moves your team to Aetna on a plan built like today’s, for less than renewing.

Prepared for Seacon Corporation by Beverly Griffin and Caleb Sherrill, Contemporary Benefits Advisors

Blue Cross renewal, 12/1/2026

$221,670

a year, up 23.2%

Where you are today

Your Blue Cross renewal increased

Same plan and the same 15 people, but Blue Cross raised the premium 23.2%. Blue Cross prices each person by age, so rates also climb as your team gets older.

Medical premium per year

Today$179,981 $14,998.42 a month
Renewal, 12/1/2026$221,670 $18,472.50 a month
+23.2%

How Vensure HR works

You run the company. Vensure HR handles the paperwork.

Vensure HR becomes the employer on paper for payroll, taxes and benefits. That puts your team inside one large group, priced at large-group rates instead of 15 people rated by age. You keep running Seacon.

Stays the same

Yours
  • You run the company: hiring, pay, schedules, your customers and how the work gets done.
  • A plan built like today’s: $2,000 deductible, 20% coinsurance, $30 and $60 office visits.

Changes

Vensure HR
  • Payroll runs through Vensure HR. W-2s show Vensure HR.
  • One invoice for payroll, payroll taxes and benefits.
  • Medical moves to Aetna on Vensure HR’s large-group plan.
  • HR support and compliance help come with the fee, including employment practices liability (EPLI).
Vensure HR’s fee$23,112 a year$107 per employee a month for 18 employees, plus a one-time $1,926 setup.
RatesSet to 12/31/2027Vensure HR’s Aetna rates are good for all of 2027. Your renewal with Vensure HR is January 1, 2028.
Start date1/1/2027Renew Blue Cross for December, then coverage and payroll on Vensure HR start January 1.

CBA stays your team and holds Vensure HR accountable.

Side by side · Medical

Your plan next to Vensure HR’s

OAMC 2000 is Vensure HR’s closest match: the same deductible, coinsurance and office copays as today. Use the switch to see a richer plan or a lower-cost one.

Vensure HR plan
In network TodayBlue Options 2000Blue Cross NC, Gold (Copay)
Green better than todayRed worse than today

Each person

What happens to each employee’s premium

Vensure HR plan
Names
Employee RenewalBlue Cross, priced by age Vensure HR, one rate per level ChangeA month

Full monthly premium for each employee’s coverage, before Seacon’s share. At today’s split Seacon pays all of each employee’s own premium, so the savings on employee-only coverage go to Seacon. Waive medical today: 3 of 18 employees.

Dental and vision

A richer dental plan for less

MetLife’s Enhanced Standard plan through Vensure HR covers the same 100 / 80 / 50 as Companion, raises the yearly max from $1,000 to $1,750, and costs less at every level.

DentalTodayCompanion LifeRenewal 12/1/2026, up 10%Richer, costs lessMetLife Enhanced StandardThrough Vensure HR
DeductibleSingle / family$50 / $150$50 / $150
Cleanings and checkups100%100%
Fillings and extractions80%80%
Crowns, bridges, dentures50%50%
Yearly max$1,000$1,750
OrthodontiaChildren50%, $1,000 lifetime40%, $1,500 lifetime
Monthly premium
Employee only11 enrolled$38.71$34.86$3.85 less
Employee + spouse2 enrolled$77.44$69.61$7.83 less
Employee + children1 enrolled$103.62$78.26$25.36 less
Family1 enrolled$150.48$120.94$29.54 less
A year15 enrolled$10,017$8,663$1,354 less

15 on dental and 14 on vision, at the same coverage levels as medical. Dental and vision are in the totals under All in.

Vision$6.54 a monthDavis Vision, employee only, vs. $5.72 with Companion today. About $225 a year more for all 14 on vision ($1,452 vs. $1,227). $10 exam, $200 toward frames every other year or $200 for contacts each year.
Richer dental option$43.65 a monthMetLife Enhanced Premier, employee only: $2,250 yearly max and 50% orthodontia.
Company-paid life$4.40 a monthper employee for $25,000 of MetLife life and AD&D ($0.176 per $1,000; $15,000 to $200,000 available). Disability is priced once Vensure HR has salaries.

Also offered, employee-paid: voluntary life, accident (from $6.46 a month), hospital (from $9.10 a month), critical illness and cancer coverage.

Who saves

Seacon and each employee

Today Seacon pays all of each employee’s own premium and 60% of the cost to add a spouse or children. The renewal always uses that split. Move the sliders to set what Seacon would pay on Vensure HR. Dental and vision are included at today’s split.

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Paychecks

Seacon savesa year, after Vensure HR’s fee
Employees savea year, their share of the premium
Together

What employees pay, per paycheck

Coverage TodayBlue Cross renewal, today’s split Vensure HR ChangePer paycheck

Medical only. Blue Cross prices each person by age, so two people at the same level can pay different amounts today. Waive medical today: 3 of 18 employees.

All in

What it costs for the first year

Medical, dental and vision, plus Vensure HR’s fee, which replaces what you pay today for payroll and admin. Your payroll fee of about $100 a payroll, every two weeks, is filled in.

What do you pay today for payroll and admin?

Per

Vensure HR plan
First 12 months Renewal 12/1/26Renew today’s plansBlue Cross Vensure HRAetna

Not in these totals: Vensure HR’s one-time $1,926 setup fee (one month of its fee).

Questions about any of this? Call either of us.

We’ll send you Vensure HR’s final numbers as soon as they’re in.

Beverly GriffinPhone(704) 218-2899Emailbeverly@c-ben.com
Caleb Sherrill, PEO optionsPhone704-787-1261