Beam is really excited to announce our partnership with PrismHR, a leader provider of software and services for the Professional Service Organization (PEO) industry. For the first time, Beam Dental is exposing its highly differentiated dental insurance policies to the PEO market, in an effort to...
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Oct
15
5 Takeaways From InsureTech Connect 2018
By Alex Frommeyer | Dental Insurance, insurance, Thoughts From Beam | No CommentsI attended InsureTech Connect 2018 in Las Vegas recently and found it to be the most dynamic and interesting one yet. Here are 5 thematic takeaways from ITC 2018.
Jul
29
Meet the Kleiner Perkins-Backed Startup Set to Change Dental Insurance
By Alex Frommeyer | Beam News | No CommentsAt Beam Dental, we had a radical idea: what if we could use technology to activate a more aggressive preventative dental care regimen and break members and groups out of a pattern of increasingly expensive care? Acting on this idea caught the attention of Silicon Valley giant Kleiner Perkins, which...
Jun
26
How Are PEOs Changing in the Face of Disruptive Technology?
By Alex Frommeyer | Technology, Thoughts From Beam | No CommentsA few weeks ago, I was excited to get the opportunity to attend the PrismHR Live 2018, the largest technology conference in the PEO industry. A PEO is a professional employer organization, which is a company to where other businesses can outsource a variety of employee services. The most common...
Apr
02
How Beam SmartPremiums Work
By Alex Frommeyer | SmartPremiums, Dental Benefits, About Beam | No CommentsWe recently launched Beam SmartPremiums, the most innovative dental insurance plans in decades. While this post shares a bit about Beam’s vision and why we launched SmartPremiums, I want to take a minute to address some common questions we’ve received, starting with:
Mar
16
Why Beam Is Making Dental Benefits Better
By Alex Frommeyer | Beam Perks, Dental Benefits, About Beam | No CommentsOne of the most common questions I get when doing an interview or introducing Beam Dental to a new person is, "how the heck did you get into dental benefits?" Fair question. There is nothing in my background, nor the backgrounds of our co-founders, that suggests that we would be the perfect people...
Jul
26
How Much Should Group Dental Insurance Cost?
By Alex Frommeyer | Dental Insurance, Dental Benefits, Employers | No CommentsThe most common word people use to describe dental insurance is “expensive.” Not far down the list is “boring.” If we’re doing our job right at Beam®, it won’t be long before you start thinking of dental benefits as something entirely different: affordable.
Apr
27
Beam's Vision for Better Dental Benefits: SmartPremiums
By Alex Frommeyer | Beam News, SmartPremiums | No CommentsBeam® Dental has a goal: be the world’s leading dental insurance provider. To us, that means a few things must be true:
