Group Health Benefits for Texas Employers
The right health insurance broker listens first, then brings you options tailored to your business. We are a strategic health benefits partner for Texas businesses, helping you navigate the marketplace and supporting your needs year round.
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Is The Shields Agency Right for Your Company?
If you care about your people and their health benefits, the answer is yes. Whether your team is a dozen strong or well past a hundred, we're here to help you find coverage that works for your business and the people on your plan. Our goal is to build a real partnership along the way, not just place a policy and move on.
How We Work With Your Business
We place and manage coverage across the full range of what a Texas employer might need. Traditional fully insured carriers have pushed rate increases as high as 20 to 30 percent in recent years, so we also work with level-funded plans and third-party administrators that most brokers never look at, because bringing those options to the table responsibly takes real research and vetting most agencies aren't set up to do.
Fully Insured Group Medical Plans
Level-Funded Group Medical Plans
Dental and Vision Insurance
Medicare, Life Insurance and Voluntary Benefits
Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
Accident, Hospital, and Critical Illness Plans
Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
Health Benefits Strategy & Consulting
Not Every Employee Needs the Same Plan
A single, one-size-fits-all plan doesn't always serve your whole team well. We look at your census, who's on your team, their ages, their income levels, their coverage needs, and build a strategy. That might mean one plan for your management team and a different one for hourly employees. It might mean identifying employees over 65 who could benefit from Medicare, or dependents of lower-income employees who may already qualify for free coverage through the ACA marketplace.
We look at the whole picture, not just a single quote, so all of your people are covered appropriately.
A Responsive Team That Truly Cares
We built this agency around caring for our clients and doing what's best for them. Here's what that looks like in practice.
We’re Here When You Need Us.
A carrier issue or coverage question gets a timely, attentive response. We stay engaged and advocate on your behalf until it’s resolved.
Honest Guidance, Always.
We recommend what’s right for your business and your team, not whatever pays us the most.
A Partner Who Knows This Space.
Benefits is all we do. We stay current on carriers, plan designs, and regulations so you don’t have to.
Service That Doesn’t Stop at Renewal.
When renewal comes around, we don’t just re-quote last year’s plan. We look at how your plan performed over the year, what worked, what didn’t, what came up along the way, and use that to build real options for the year ahead.
A Group Health Insurance Broker Serving Employers Across Texas
We’re based in Fort Worth and work with employers throughout Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, Houston, and San Antonio. If your company has a presence anywhere in Texas, even as part of a larger multi-state business, we can support you too.
What Employers Are Saying About The Shields Agency
They caught a gap in our renewal that would have cost us thousands, and had three real alternatives in front of us within a week.
Operations Director, Manufacturing — 60 employees
The difference is that someone actually answers. Our previous broker went quiet every time it mattered.
Owner, Professional Services — 24 employees
They told us to stay put one year because switching wasn’t worth it. That is when I knew the advice was honest.
CFO, Logistics — 140 employees
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Let's Talk About Your Group Benefits
Share a few details about your business, and we'll explore your options to find what fits your team. No pressure, just a real conversation about what works for your company.