Meridian Health Plan Reviews

Pros

Friendly uppr management, good pay, good hours, meaningful work!

Cons

Required overtime at one point, sometimes have to drive far diatances

Pros

Formerly great benefits, pto is generous, the people are great

Cons

Pay low by all industry standards

Pros

The benefits are excellent and company events happen frequently. We were given free bagels and cream cheese every Friday.

Cons

Where to start? Morale is low and it's painfully obvious that most employees are miserable and don't want to be there by the way they act and treat each other. Micromanagement is rampant at Meridian and expectations are unclear. Management (and many of your coworkers) are toxic. Policies change at the drop of a hat and seemingly arbitrarily. Career advancement at this company does not exist. I was with the company for...

Advice to Management

Listen to your employees and treat them like professionals. You want to treat your employees like kids? Then hire kids instead of college educated professionals.

Pros

Bagels every Friday (and lots of free food in general around the office), modern facility. Pay is OK and benefits (healthcare and 401k) are actually really good for a private sector job.

Cons

Meridian is by and large the worst employer I have ever had. Morale is extremely low and it is very clear from employees' behavior and attitudes that hardly anyone likes their job. And why would they? When your actions are constantly under a microscope and you have little to no autonomy you would be miserable too. Teams within IT do not communicate and are often hostile towards one another too. Asking simple questions...

Advice to Management

They're beyond advice. I spent years offering up suggestions for process improvements and was largely ignored, even being told very bluntly that my ideas would "fall on deaf ears." They do not listen, they do not care.

Pros

My co-workers (fellow behavioral health employees) are great. Everyone is willing to chip in and help. The downtown office is nice. Great view of the river. Bagels on fridays and adequate opportunity to get free t-shirts.

Cons

The leadership is awful. We are not treated like professionals at all. No one with a master's degree should be micro-managed on the clock. Short lunches, disciplinary points if you are more than 6 minutes late, even if you let your team lead know. Leadership is young and has no leadership experience. Team leads are glorified babysitters making sure you are clocking in and out on time. Terrible advancement opportunities....

Advice to Management

Listen to the people who are on doing the work. Clinicians should be paid more or salaried. Put more effort into having leadership who have actual leadership skills and don't have young leaders micromanaging professionals. Invest in your internal talent. It should not take 8 weeks to find out if you are going to get an internal position. Remember that we are supposed to be helping people. Don't just parrot what you hear...

Pros

My team was awesome, the members are great + inspirational, and initially I would argue that the job itself was awesome and I loved it too, bagel Friday was a plus, proximity to decent food options if you want to grab a bite (hot cookies on the second floor rock), PTO accumulation (~4hrs per pay period), I said one star to career opportunities but it really varies based on the individual

Cons

Not actually doing social work, dishonesty from leadership following the integration with WellCare, parking wasn't ideal (walking one mile to get to work in the morning or people mover that can be unreliable), not always equitable on who they choose who can do 4 10's or work from home even if you meet requirements, advancement is only possible for people who are favored, too much flexibility in what a person's entering...

Advice to Management

The smoke and mirrors won't last forever. You are losing clinicians at a fast rate for a reason. Pay more respect to your employees and they will give you an actual two weeks notice instead of leaving on the drop of a dime. Leadership (including HR) and they way they conduct business is unprofessional - you don't have security walk people out who put in two week notices and you don't call people aggressive because you...

Pros

everything. great working environment

Cons

haven't found any as of yet

Pros

Working for the right mentor provides appropriate hands on experience and career building. Great “family like” atmosphere. If you like a fast-paced environment and love what you do- this is the place for you. Most reviews about lots of work are true, but probably don’t understand what it takes to take care of 800,000 people and want easy work.

Cons

Salaries are very low for the amount of work and responsibility and leads to high turnover. Claims and IT lack ownership of system issues which causes extra work for other departments and don’t take responsibility for their own work and problems.

Advice to Management

Listen to your employees and provide fair compensation based on real market trends. Hold everyone accountable and fix the issues to allow space and time for new ideas. Always chasing your tails and adding new business to a broken system is going to be your failure.