Customer success story: LendingTree

 

After introducing new healthcare plan options to its employees, LendingTree, the largest online lending marketplace in the U.S., sought a solution to help employees navigate their benefits plans, find higher-quality, lower-cost providers and create a better overall employee experience.
 

• About LendingTree
• Founded: 1997
• Headquarters: Charlotte, NC
• 1,000 employees across the US

The problem

LendingTree relied on its internal HR department to handle the entire organization’s benefits and HR concerns. While this approach was cost-effective, their team needed additional support to effectively provide HR and benefits support to employees, particularly when it came to their healthcare benefits. As LendingTree evaluated its benefits programs, it recognized the need to educate employees on making smarter decisions and move away from tools that were ineffective in providing direction and support to guide those decisions.
 

Guiding employees in the right direction

In 2015, LendingTree partnered with Alight’s Healthcare Navigation Solution to help employees maximize benefits, improve outcomes and lower overall health plan costs. Accessible via phone, email, web or mobile app, their Alight Health Pro^®, Shana, acts as an employee’s personal healthcare concierge, providing high-touch, white-glove assistant with virtually all aspects of the healthcare experience, including:
 

• High-quality, cost-effective doctor and care recommendations
• Verification of coverage
• Cost estimates
• Appointment scheduling
• Prescription reviews
• Bill reviews
• Medical record transfers
• Coordination of care

As employees began to get used to the new navigation solution and resources, LendingTree started to see the Alight support team as an extension of their own. Their designated Health Pro^®, in combination with Alight’s Healthcare Navigation, gave them access to a comprehensive solution that provided resources that mattered to them — like answers to medical, dental and vision questions — and not just medical benefits support.

Results worth sharing

In 2015, utilization rates were lower than anticipated, so LendingTree’s HR team focused on referring employees to their Health Pro^® when they received questions regarding their health benefits. Steadily, LendingTree saw a significant improvement in their utilization rates. To date, LendingTree employees have interacted with their Alight team over 630 times regarding a number of benefits topics, from finding doctors to reviewing bills. Employees receive expert advice and recommendations from their on-call Health Pro^®, increasing their engagement, improving their quality of care and saving them valuable time. Additionally, having access to a Health Pro^® for their benefits needs provided measurable cost savings for employees when it came to their overall healthcare expenses.
 

How LendingTree employees use Alight's Healthcare Navigation Solution

The number one way LendingTree participants use Alight is to get to the right provider from the start. When people “walk through the wrong provider’s door,” there is a snowball effect that costs the participant and LendingTree unnecessary expenses.

Why Alight?

Drive results with a team you can trust.

LendingTree’s traditionally in-house HR team and its concern regarding employee benefits utilization and understanding is not an uncommon occurrence. Navigating healthcare can be intimidating — and costly. By trusting Alight to provide Healthcare Navigation and expert advice with a Health Pro^®, LendingTree saw a +90 Net Promoter Score, $131K in all-time savings and 69% all-time utilization. Allowing the Alight team to be an extension of their own proved to be a success on all accounts; employees were better able to understand their benefits options and make more informed decisions, leading to smarter choices, better care and lower costs.