Rael & Letson A trusted advisor for over 60 years

We are an independent employee benefits consulting and actuarial services firm helping to bring high-quality, cost-effective benefits to working people and their families.

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Our Solutions

We offer industry-leading advisory and analytic services focused on optimizing benefits, increasing participant engagement, controlling costs, and mitigating risk.

  • Retirement consulting and actuarial services

    Consulting and actuarial services designed to maximize the longevity and security of retirement programs.

    Retirement
  • Health Benefit Plan consulting and actuarial services

    Creative solutions for providing benefits, controlling costs, and supporting participant health and well-being.

    Health Benefits
  • Pharmacy Benefits Management consulting

    Consulting on drug pricing and PBM contracting to optimize fully insured and self-insured pharmacy benefits programs.

    PBM Consulting
  • Retiree Health consulting and actuarial services

    Financial modeling, analysis, and consulting for multiemployer and public sector retiree health plans.

    Retiree Health
  • Communications consulting

    Full-service employee benefits communications consulting designed to increase engagement and improve participant experience.

    Communications

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Insights
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Welcome to Dr. Fornataro, Senior Pharmacy Benefits Consultant

We are excited to welcome Martin Fornataro, Pharm.D., to our PBM Consulting team. Martin has over 32 years’ experience in pharmacy consulting and management including consulting with multiemployer Taft-Hartley plans. He brings to Rael & Letson a unique combination of clinical and business experience along with passion for reporting and analytics. His clients benefit significantly […]

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Health Benefits

Cell and Gene Therapy (CGT): What Plan Sponsors Need to Know

What is Cell and Gene Therapy? Cell and Gene Therapy (CGT) are new classes of medical treatments that alter part of a patient’s DNA/genes through the replacement, deletion, or insertion of genetic material to treat a disease. The goal of both treatments is to change DNA/genes so the body can build proteins to change or […]

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Communications

Want More Participant Engagement? An Effective Website Can Help

Websites are often overlooked by multiemployer trusts and other health and welfare funds when it comes to increasing participant engagement. Many trusts rely on a secure site participants can log in to for communicating health and retirement benefits. While these portals are important tools for benefit administration, they often lack the mobile-friendly design and robust […]

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We specialize in collectively bargained and multiemployer plans in many industries

Who We Serve
  • Automotive
  • Bakers
  • Bricklayers
  • Carpenters
  • Cement Masons
  • Cities/Counties
  • Concession Vendors
  • Education
  • Electrical Workers
  • Entertainment
  • Fire Districts
  • Floor Covering
  • Glaziers
  • Growers
  • Hotel & Restaurant
  • Insulators and Asbestos Workers
  • Ironworkers
  • Janitors
  • Laborers
  • Lathers
  • Longshore
  • Machinists
  • Maritime
  • Municipalities
  • Nonprofits
  • Office and Professional
  • Operating Engineers
  • Pipe Trades
  • Plasterers
  • Plumbers
  • Roofers
  • Service Employees
  • Sheet Metal
  • Sign Pictorial and Display
  • Single Employer plans
  • Teamsters
  • Theatrical
  • Tile industry
  • Transit Authorities
  • Transportation
  • United Food and Commercial Workers

Why Rael & Letson

About Us
  • We are small enough to be nimble and flexible in developing creative solutions customized to the unique needs of each client.

  • We specialize in collectively bargained plans and have a deep knowledge of multiemployer benefit plans, issues, and trends.

  • We help solve our clients’ most complex problems, delivering proactive consultation, creative solutions, and high-quality analysis.

  • We care about our clients and go the extra mile to build strong, long-lasting client relationships.

  • We have an exceptionally well-qualified staff that is highly trained and up to date on best practices, with deep industry expertise and experience.

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