BCI'S CONSULTANTS
BCI's consultants are experienced and skilled in a variety of employee benefits specialties.
Alan Lemley, CLU, President and Consultant. Mr. Lemley has worked in the health benefits field since 1965. Prior to founding BCI in 1982, he worked in the group insurance department of Prudential Insurance Company; as the Benefits Manager of the self-funded and self-administered benefit program of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod; and as an employee benefit consultant for Powers, Carpenter and Hall, Inc. (now Buck Consultants). He serves as consultant to corporate, governmental and multiemployer welfare benefit plans. His special areas of interest and expertise include advanced plan design concepts, health care cost containment, managed care, pharmacy benefits, self-insurance and regulatory compliance.
Sharron Gass, Vice President and Consultant. Ms. Gass has worked in the health benefits field since 1964. Before joining Benefit Consultants in 1982, she worked in the group claim departments of John Hancock, Lincoln National and Mutual/United of Omaha Insurance Companies, most recently as claims supervisor and auditor. She manages BCI's claim department and assists BCI's clients who self-administer their claims. She also advises clients on claim problems, performs internal and external claim audits, negotiates provider discounts and advises clients on plan design and administrative issues.
Sandra Wilson, CEBS, Consultant. Ms. Wilson has worked in the health benefits field since 1976. Before joining BCI in 1988, she worked in group insurance sales and management for Northwestern National Life Insurance Company. Her special areas of interest and expertise include competitive bidding and negotiation of group insurance and self-insurance programs, analysis of claims experience, valuation of plan changes, financial projections and computation of required funding levels and development of COBRA and self-pay rates.
Dawn Kramer, JD, Consultant. Ms. Kramer has worked in the health benefits field since 1996. She advises BCI clients on legal and regulatory issues and requirements affecting their welfare benefit plans and drafts plan documents.
Kathy Jaegers, Consultant. Ms. Jaegers has worked in the health benefits field since
1998. Her special areas of interest and expertise include data analysis and
excess risk insurance.