Meet Meridio: Health Benefits Without the Headache
At Strongpay, we're always looking for ways to take more off your plate than payroll alone. So we're introducing something new for our clients: a partnership with Meridio that makes offering health benefits as straightforward as the payroll and retirement support you already rely on us for.
For a lot of small business owners, offering health benefits has always felt like something just out of reach. Not because they don't want to take care of their people, but because the process was designed for companies with dedicated HR teams, benefits administrators, and budgets built to absorb the unpredictability. Unclear costs, confusing plan comparisons, minimum group requirements. The barriers add up fast, and most small businesses quietly table the conversation before it ever really starts.
That's not a resources problem. It's a process problem. And it's exactly why we've partnered with Meridio, to give our clients a better path to offering health benefits, backed by the same clarity and support you expect from Strongpay.
What Meridio Does
Meridio provides health benefits as a managed service, built specifically for small and growing businesses that have long been underserved by a market where costs are high, options are overwhelming, and guidance is hard to find. Their model gives businesses a straightforward path to ACA-compliant coverage with nationwide availability, no group minimums, and the ability to enroll any time.
What separates Meridio from a standard benefits vendor isn't just the pricing structure. It's the experience of getting there. From the first conversation, a dedicated team works with you to understand your business, walk through your options, and get your employees enrolled with clarity at every step. You're not handed a portal and left to figure it out.
Why This Matters
For small business owners, the hardest part of offering benefits usually isn't the decision to do it. It's everything that follows. Which plan actually fits your budget and your team's needs? What happens when an employee has a coverage question in March? Who handles enrollment when someone new joins mid-year?
These aren't hypothetical friction points. For small and mid-sized businesses running lean, without a dedicated HR function absorbing those questions, they're the reason health benefits keep getting pushed to next quarter. And the quarter after that.
Meridio is built to remove those roadblocks before they form. Their team handles the front end of the process so you don't have to become an expert in health insurance to give your employees access to it. You make the decision. They handle the rest.
“We’re always looking for ways to add value for our clients beyond payroll. Partnering with Meridio is a natural extension of that, giving businesses access to affordable health benefits through a team that handles the process the same way we do: with clarity and real support.”
How It Works
Pricing that's actually predictable
Most small businesses assume that quality health coverage will push their budgets past the breaking point. Meridio is built around the opposite: plans starting at $180/month, transparent pricing with no hidden fees, and ACA-compliant options available to teams of any size. What you're quoted is what you pay. That clarity doesn't shift after you sign up.
Setup that doesn't slow you down
No group minimums. No co-employment requirements. No changes to your existing payroll system or tech stack. Meridio's team handles enrollment and gets your company registered from the start. Coverage is available nationwide, so it doesn't matter whether your team works out of one location or across multiple states. You add benefits without rebuilding anything.
Support that doesn't disappear
Once you're enrolled, Meridio stays in it with you. A dedicated team is available year-round to guide you and your employees through plan questions, coverage changes, and anything that comes up between enrollment periods. For businesses without an internal HR function to field those questions, that consistency is the difference between benefits that work and those that create more problems than they solve. Your employees have someone to call. So do you.
Get Started
Health benefits have long been one of the hardest things for a small business to offer well. Through our partnership with Meridio, Strongpay clients now have a simpler, more affordable way to give their teams access to quality coverage, with transparent pricing, nationwide availability, and a team that handles the details.
Explore Meridio's plans to see what coverage looks like for your team.
If you have questions about how this fits into your current Strongpay setup, book a 15-minute call with our team.