Cost-Saving Programs

The Chamber offers a number of member-exclusive benefits to help you save money.
 

Group Health Insurance & Health Savings Accounts

The Chamber and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield have teamed up to save you money on your group health insurance.  Through the ChamberSaver plan, businesses save money on health insurance – and not just on a few plans, but rather, on Anthem’s full range of health insurance offerings, including exciting new consumer-directed health plans.

Save money with members-only discounts
Chamber members who do not already have Anthem insurance can enjoy a 4 percent discount on group health insurance. Call 1-888-506-1574 now or fill out an online form to request a free quote and find out how much you can save, by clicking here. You may also obtain a quote by contacting any Chamber member insurance agency that offers Anthem health insurance. For a listing of these members, click here.

Flexible plans offer more choices
Your employees want more choices. You need to manage your budget. Anthem health plans can help you do both. How? With a full range of innovative, consumer-driven products (HSAs, HRAs and HIAs) as well as Anthem ByDesign^® buy-up plans. Anthem has a plan to fit your needs, and unlike some other chamber programs, you aren’t limited to just one or two pared-down plans; rather, through the ChamberSaver program, you can get a discounted rate on whichever of Anthem’s many plans you choose.

Get more for your money with Healthy Solutions
Go ahead. Compare Anthem’s Healthy Solutions to the competition’s programs. With Anthem, your employees get more. More comprehensive wellness and disease management programs. More online resources to help them make smart decisions about their care. More innovative tools that help them choose a hospital based on their specific needs.

Save time with MyAnthem™ for employers
MyAnthem gives you convenient online access to immediately view and update your group’s information. From adding and deleting employees and dependents to updating an employee’s address or checking the status of an employee’s claim, MyAnthem makes managing benefits easy.

The convenience of one-stop shopping
Take advantage of the administrative convenience of one-stop shopping for all of your health, prescription, dental, vision, life, disability and employee assistance (i.e., behavioral health) benefits.

Call 1-888-506-1574 now or fill out an online form to request a free quote and find out how much your company can save by clicking here.

Workers’ Compensation Group Rating
Members may receive discounted workers’ compensation premiums through a group-rating program administered by CompManagement. Groups administered by CompManagement realize savings of up to 65 percent (with an effective rate of 51 percent after the break-even factor) on individual company premiums.

Contact Genny Hart (614-760-8145) for a no-cost evaluation to learn if you qualify.

Click here or on the Comp Management graphic at left to access the BWC AC-3 authorization form for Worthington chamber members.

NEW! Discounts on Electricity for Your Business from Volunteer Energy

The Worthington Area Chamber of Commerce is pleased to offer its business members a new program that provides a discount on the cost of their electricity. Worthington Chamber members who are business customers of AEP’s Columbus Southern Power can now switch to a lower rate.

Through a program offered by local energy supplier Volunteer Energy in an exclusive arrangement with FirstEnergy Solutions, Chamber members can save up to 30 percent or more on the cost of their electricity supply. Billing and service remains the same, with one monthly bill still provided by AEP. This new discounted rate is good through January 2014 and will not go up during that time, even if AEP rates increase.

For more information about the new program, click here to download a page of frequently asked questions.

Various pricing options are provided for small, medium, and large electricity users.

Click here to calculate your savings.

Enrolling with FirstEnergy Solutions through Volunteer Energy for electricity supply is as easy as completing a simple form. Download a PDF of the enrollment form by clicking on this link...

Return completed forms via fax to (614) 889-6129 or e-mail scanned, completed forms to chamberchoice@volunteerenergy.com.

Need more information? Contact Mike Capuano at Volunteer Energy. Call (614) 395-6834 or e-mail mike@strategicenergyservices.com.
 

Supplemental Insurance
AFLAC is the leading insurance carrier of voluntary insurance products at the workplace for employees, including accident policies, disability plans, full or supplemental dental coverage and additional life insurance. The AFLAC Chamber Plan is open to members who are self-employed, or for as few as one employee in a company to all employees. An additional benefit for Chamber member businesses is Section 125 Plan administration. Set-up is free, and the administrative service fee is waived for the first year. Contact Frieda Hoheisel, AFLAC agent, (899-0250, ext. 215).

Business Partner Program with Constant Contact®, Inc.

The Chamber’s partnership with Constant Contact provides members with effective, affordable tools to build strong, lasting customer relationships.

Our Chamber joined Constant Contact’s Business Partner Program to provide our members with easy-to-use e-mail marketing and online survey products through Constant Contact®, Inc. (www.constantcontact.com), a leading provider of e-mail marketing and online survey tools for small organizations.

Chamber members can purchase Constant Contact e-mail marketing and survey accounts at a discount (up to 25 percent for prepaid accounts) by clicking on the logo at right or by logging on to the Constant Contact Business Program through this link.

Each Chamber-Constant Contact account starts as a 60-day free trial. The account will be free for 60 days for up to 100 e-mail addresses. At the end of the trial, Chamber members are eligible for the discount upon purchase of their permanent accounts.

With SpeakUp!SM E-mail Marketing, Constant Contact’s e-mail marketing product, Chamber members can quickly and easily create professional-looking e-mails, manage contact e-mail lists, measure e-mail campaign results from clicks to open rates, and review who joined e-mail lists. With ListenUp!SM Survey, Constant Contact’s online survey product, Chamber members have an easy-to-use tool to gain insight that will help them meet customer needs, generate new ideas, and grow their business or organization. ListenUp! Survey also will help Chamber members analyze responses quickly, create targeted e-mail lists based on survey responses, take action, and follow-up with relevant e-mail communications.

Launched in 1998, Constant Contact, Inc. is a leading provider of e-mail marketing and online survey tools for small organizations, including small businesses, associations, and nonprofits.
For technical support related to Constant Contact or its product offerings, call (781) 472-8100.
 

Member-to-Member Discount Coupons
A number of Chamber member businesses offer discounts to other members. The Member-to-Member Discount Program is one of the money-saving benefits of joining the Chamber that is made available through the Chamber’s Web site. It’s easy to offer and easy to manage, and everyone benefits. Your business gets free advertising, Chamber members save money, and you are able to monitor the program.

Coupons for Member-to-Member discounts can be found in the Members Only section of the Web site, along with instructions on how to add your own coupon. (Call Theresa at 888-3040 if you need assistance in entering your coupon.) When you decide to take advantage of a member discount on a product or service listed here, just print out the appropriate coupon and take or send it to the member business to qualify for the discount.