Form 5500 · Employee benefit plan · WATERTOWN, MA
VANASSE HANGEN BRUSTLIN, INC.
The filing calls this plan VANASSE HANGEN BRUSTLIN, INC. GROUP BENEFITS PLAN.
VANASSE HANGEN BRUSTLIN, INC. of WATERTOWN, MA is a 1,767-participant professional services employer whose group benefits are disclosed in its annual Form 5500 filing. Its broker of record is BROWN & BROWN INSURANCE SERVICES, I. Coverage is written through BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS, INC. and 4 other carriers. The plan's most recent policy period ended in May.
Sourced from U.S. DOL EFAST2 Form 5500 · EIN 04-2931679 · plan 501 · plan year 2025, filed Nov 17, 2025
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How this plan is funded
Fully insured as reported
The filing reports medical coverage through an insurance contract on Schedule A, and no money paid for benefits by the plan itself.
Benefits declared on this filing
4 contracts on this filing do not say which benefits they cover, so a line above may be insured by one of them.
Also declared: death benefits, prepaid legal, other welfare.
Declared benefits are the plan’s own line 8b codes on Form 5500. “Not on Schedule A” means no insured contract for that line appears on this filing. That usually means the benefit is self-funded, or it sits under a different plan number.
Where a line has more than one insured contract, the carrier and the covered figure are the largest contract's by premium. The contracts are not added up: a pharmacy carve-out and the medical carrier beside it cover the same people.
Persons covered is the count the carrier filed for that policy at the end of its policy year, and it can include dependents. Participants is the plan's own count at the start of its plan year. The two count different people, so a covered figure can be larger.
Plan brief
Schedule A lists 10 insured contracts covering health, vision, life and disability; the largest, with BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS, INC., covers 1,713 people.
The filing declares health, vision, life, disability and dental. Dental appears with no insured contract on Schedule A. That coverage may be self-funded, placed with a carrier that is not on this filing, or written on one of the 4 contracts here that do not say what they cover.
Reported premium across the insured contracts is $32,921,804, with $610,782 in disclosed broker commissions — about 1.9% of premium.
The most recent policy period ended in May, and the plan year ends May 31. Group contracts typically renew on that annual cycle.
BROWN & BROWN INSURANCE SERVICES, I is the broker of record on 3 of the 10 contracts; the rest name a different broker or none.
Schedule A insurance contracts
| Carrier | Benefits | Covered | Renews | Premium | Commission |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS, INC. | Health | 1,713 | Jun 1, 2025 | $29,837,952 | $269,072 |
| RELIANCE STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY | Life | 1,903 | Jun 1, 2025 | $814,116 | $122,117 |
| RELIANCE STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY | Disability | 1,900 | Jun 1, 2025 | $748,663 | $74,866 |
| UNUM LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA | — | 1,966 | Jun 1, 2025 | $323,423 | $71,154 |
| RELIANCE STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY | Disability | 1,900 | Jun 1, 2025 | $455,069 | $45,507 |
| BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS, INC. | Vision | 1,339 | Jun 1, 2025 | $152,323 | $15,232 |
| RELIANCE STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY | — | 1,220 | Jun 1, 2025 | $404,953 | $7,250 |
| PRE-PAID LEGAL SERVICES INC DBA LEGALSHIELD | — | 330 | Jun 1, 2025 | $50,446 | $5,299 |
| ACE AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY | — | 1,403 | Jun 1, 2025 | $1,900 | $285 |
| RELIANCE STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY | Disability | 284 | Jun 1, 2025 | $132,959 | $0 |
Premium and claims on these contracts
BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS, INC., contract 4017712. For the contract year on this filing, the carrier reported $29,837,952 in premium earned and $25,876,679 in claims incurred. Dividing one by the other gives 87%.
BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS, INC., contract 4017712. For the contract year on this filing, the carrier reported $152,323 in premium earned and $110,721 in claims incurred. Dividing one by the other gives 73%.
- BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS, INC., contract 4017712 reported $3,961,273 in retention.
- BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS, INC., contract 4017712 reported $41,603 in retention.
Retention is what the carrier kept of the premium after claims, as reported: administration, commissions and other charges.
Only experience-rated contracts report these figures, so most filings leave them blank.
Covered = persons covered at policy year end, as filed on Schedule A for that policy — often certificates or one class, not the whole plan. Premium = the filing’s own premium/charges figure; “—” means not credibly reported.
Administrator and service providers
The plan administrator is from line 3a of the main form. The service providers are named on Schedule C of this filing. We publish company names only.
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