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The Lakewood Chamber’s 5 Core Missions:

• Promoting the community
• Providing networking opportunities
• Representing the interests of business with government
• Political action
• Creating a strong local economy

 

The Lakewood Chamber of Commerce is a nonprofit membership-based organization of over 500 businesses that is vitally concerned about the economic future of the Lakewood area. The Chamber represents the concerns and needs of its member businesses through market research and promotion, lobbying on the state and local level, and providing networking opportunities to sustain and encourage growth and economic development in the area.

 

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MEMBER HEALTH CARE AND INSURANCE BENEFITS PROGRAMS

Health care and insurance benefit costs are a growing challenge for businesses of every size. We partner with GHB Insurance for group coverage & Integrated Benefit Strategies for individual insurance plus a variety of non-insurance benefit programs for our members and their employees. Together, we're working to provide each member with coverage options that meet your unique needs. All programs are available on a member-by-member basis.

These aren't cookie-cutter, minimal benefits programs. Through our programs, you gain access to comprehensive, flexible benefits options, which our members have indicated are important. Plus, programs are available for companies of all sizes, even down to just one employee.

Programs Available

• Group insurance: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability
• Individual coverage: medical, dental
• Health savings programs: prescription mail order, health care savings card
• Other programs:  identity theft assistance

If you aren't sure what types of benefits will work best for you, GHB Insurance can help you.  Simply call 206-770-6509 or email sandy@ghbinsurance.com.

Review our quick Program Summary to find out more about the programs available to you, our members! 

MEMBER-SPONSORED GROUP HEALTH PLANS

As a member, you have access to our affordable group health plans, brought to us by GHB Insurance. Our plans:

• provide medical options for all size groups – even for our self-employed members
• offer vision coverage for groups with 3 or more employees
• insure dental care for groups with 3 or more employees (or 2 employees with medical)
• require the lowest employer contributions of any carriers in the market
• use the largest provider networks for higher coverage
• First Choice Health Network for medical
• Vision Service Plan for vision
• Washington Dental Service for dental
• cover dental and vision services right away – no waiting periods

See the attached Group Health Plan Summary for more information about our group health plans.

If you would like a quote, fill out our online quote survey today. 

Search the medical plan’s network.

Search the dental plan’s network - choose “Delta Dental PPO” network.

Search the vision plan’s network - you can click “no” that you are not a member, and you can then search for providers.

INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE

Our broker, Integrated Benefit Strategies, can assist you with researching medical and dental plans available in Washington State.  This service is available to our members, as well as your family, your employees, and your contractors.

There are over 30 medical plans available in the market.  Shave more than 6 hours of time off your research!  Have Integrated Benefit Strategies narrow down your options for you.

You can take the IB-Strategies’ online survey to receive your truncated plan options.  Or visit Integrated Benefit Strategies’ website for more information about individual medical and dental coverage. 

Individual medical coverage link

Individual dental coverage link


FREE PRESCRIPTION DRUG MAIL ORDER DISCOUNT PROGRAM

Why pay full price for your medications?  Our mail order program can save you up to 80% or more on drugs delivered directly to your doorstep.

We have partnered with Langdon Drugs to provide our members (and your employees, vendors, clients, contractors, and even your parents) with significant savings.   This is a great benefit for those employees who have no health coverage, including your part-time or temporary employees, and contractors.  Even if you have current drug coverage you can obtain savings on drugs not covered through your health plan.

Our program:

See the attached Drug Mail Order Summary for more information about our program.  Also included is a mail order form that you can complete prior to calling our Langdon representatives, to help streamline the process of researching your prescriptions.

Prescription Mail Order Drug Review: Call 866.205.8855  (our code is LAKEWOOD)
Call to check pricing available on your medications or to order.


HEALTH CARE SAVINGS CARD

The best part of having full health care coverage is the provider discounts. Now, receive these healthcare discounts without having to pay for full coverage.  Our program includes more than 500,000 providers nationwide, who provide discounts for medical visits, lab & x-ray, dental, vision, hearing, massage, chiropractic, naturopathy and more!

We have partnered with People’s Health Choice to provide our members (and your employees, vendors, clients, contractors, and family members) with healthcare savings. This is another great benefit for those employees who have no health coverage (including your part-time or temporary employees, and contractors).  Even if you have current health plan coverage, you can obtain savings on services that are either not covered on your plan or that you have “maxed out” under your health plan!

Our program:

See the attached Healthcare Discount Summary for more information about our program.

Also included is an application for enrolling under this program.

Search the medical plan’s network (for all providers other than dental)

Search the dental plan’s network

IDENTITY THEFT PROGRAM

Over 10 million people become victims of identity theft every year in the United States.  Make sure you protect your identity, and that of your family members.  Our vendor, ID Theft Assist, is the only true third-party recovery service for ID theft victims, with TransUnion (one of the three major credit agencies) included as a partner.

All our members (plus your employees, vendors, clients, and contractors), have access to our negotiated price of $99 annually.  This is a savings of $50 off ID Theft Assist’s retail price. 

Our program:

See the attached ID Theft Summary for a full review of our program.

Also included is an application for coverage.

Or go online to learn more or to enroll. 


CONTACT GHB INSURANCE AT:

Toll Free:           800-789-5011

Mail:                   522 Franklin St SE, Olympia

We selected GHB Insurance as our insurance consultant based on the high level of services they offer. The company has a seasoned team with extensive experience in benefits and an excellent reputation in the marketplace. They focus on streamlining the insurance process and delivering services that help make your job easier. You can rely on Integrated Benefit Strategies for a customized market analysis, new hire memos, electronic forms and a reference manual tailored to your plan.