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June 12th, 2025 | 2 min. read
As an HR or benefits leader, you live and breathe employee benefits and understand exactly how they’re impacting your workforce for good. But to justify the price tag, company CEOs and financial officers often ask for the hard dollar return on investment (ROI).
Regular, clear ROI reporting helps ensure continued support for vital benefits. Follow these best practices for demonstrating the value of your benefits program.
Renewal isn’t the only time to analyze benefits reporting. Schedule a regular cadence to meet with company leadership and share performance updates. Consider these approaches:
No matter your approach, predictable reporting builds trust with stakeholders.
Discuss your goals and expectations with each contracted vendor, and ensure they offer reporting that’s easy to understand and leverage. When evaluating vendor relationships, look for those who:
Working closely with vendors ensures you can quickly analyze and explain performance metrics when leadership asks tough questions.
While financial metrics matter, comprehensive benefits reporting should capture value beyond direct cost savings
For example, an employee who avoids a hospital stay because of preventive care through an onsite health center represents both direct healthcare savings and prevented productivity losses—a dual ROI story worth highlighting.
Marathon Health offers preventive care to catch issues proactively and leverages data to ensure chronic condition interventions improve employee health. Once employees begin to engage with Marathon Health providers, most make tangible improvements.
“If you have an employee who's running 150 over 95 blood pressure, but we get them under control through medication, exercise and better diet, you can expect to save about $2,000 per year from treating that chronic condition,” says Marcus Such, Chief Actuary for Marathon Health.
Marathon Health delivers the following results:
Clients can expect to decrease their total cost of care by as much as 31% by year five. In addition, employers see healthier, more engaged workforces.
“Providing health center services is a major driving factor in keeping talent on board,” Such says. “We have clients that saw huge decreases in turnover rates after implementing a program like Marathon.”