Employee benefits company Unum and Baton Rouge-based Starmount Life are launching Unum Dental and Unum Vision coverage on January 1, 2017. The two companies are rolling out the new coverages only five months after Unum acquired Starmount and its parent company, H&J Capital.
While Unum is well-known nationally and highly experienced in employee benefits, integrated dental and vision plans are new additions to its benefits portfolio. Unum purchased Starmount to serve as Unum’s dental and vision center of expertise in the U.S.
Starmount has extensive experience in both the dental and vision markets, and offers several key advantages, including national networks, on-demand ID cards, and a mobile app to locate a network provider or to check claim status.
The inclusion of dental and vision insurance enables Unum to become the single provider of supplemental employee benefits outside of health and retirement benefits, which means one-stop shopping, simplified enrollment, streamlined billing, and comprehensive customer service processes for brokers, employers and plan administrators.
Unum is set to enter the integrated dental and vision insurance markets in the New Year, and will market the new coverages to select markets in 2017 and nationally by 2018.