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Health benefits · ICHRA

Health benefits made simple for franchises and small businesses.

Give employees more choice while keeping your health benefits budget predictable.

  • You set the contribution.
  • Employees choose their coverage.
  • Rikor helps handle the rest.

Get started shows real plan prices for your team. No account needed.

An employer sets one monthly contribution of $400 per employee. Three employees each choose a different plan — gold family coverage, a bronze individual plan, and a silver plan that keeps a specialist — and Rikor handles the plan documents, notices and enrollment help.
01 · You set the contribution
$400per employee / month

Same allowance for everyone in the class.

02 · Your team chooses
  • Sarah
    Family of four
    Gold
    Covered
  • Mike
    Just himself
    Bronze
    Covered
  • Jess
    Keeps her specialist
    Silver
    Covered
03 · Rikor handles the rest
  • Plan documents
  • Required notices
  • Enrollment help
  • Member support
How it works

One decision for you. Real choices for them.

Most benefits ask you to become an expert first. This asks you for one number — then gets out of the way.

  1. 01 · Employer

    Choose your contribution

    Pick a monthly amount per employee. It stays put at renewal unless you change it.

  2. 02 · Employee

    Explore individual coverage

    Each person sees the plans available where they live, with your contribution already applied.

  3. 03 · Employee

    Choose what fits

    Their doctors, their budget, their family. Nobody has to share one plan.

  4. 04 · Rikor

    Support the whole process

    Plan documents, required notices, enrollment help, and tracking who is actually covered.

Why choice matters

Same budget. Three different answers.

One company plan turns one family's trade-off into everyone's. Here, three people on the same $400 allowance each pick what actually fits.

Sarah

Covers her husband and two kids. Wants to keep her pediatrician.

Gold · family
Keeps her pediatrician
Plan premium
$1,180
Employer covers
− $400
Sarah pays$780
Mike

Just himself. Healthy, rarely goes, wants the lowest monthly cost.

Bronze · individual
HSA eligible
Plan premium
$310
Employer covers
− $310
Mike pays$0

The plan costs less than the allowance, so $90 simply goes unspent — an ICHRA reimburses a premium and can't be taken as cash.

Jessica

Manages a condition with a specialist she is not willing to change.

Silver · individual
Specialist in network
Plan premium
$505
Employer covers
− $400
Jessica pays$105

They don't have to pick the same plan. Each policy belongs to the employee, so their doctors stay their doctors — and the coverage is theirs to keep, at their own cost, if they ever leave. What an ICHRA means for employees

For employers

Offer benefits without becoming a benefits expert.

Two things are yours: decide what to contribute, and tell us who works there. The paperwork, the notices and the enrollment questions are ours.

  • Predictable: your contribution is a number you choose, not a renewal you're handed.
  • Visible: see who's enrolled, who's pending and what's committed, without asking anyone.
  • Transparent: Rikor costs $30 per enrolled employee per month, only for people who actually enroll.
rikor.io/dashboard
rikor
Northside Wings · 3 locations
Your benefits
Live
Employees
12
Enrolled
9
Pending
3
This month
$4,200
Monthly budget$4,200 of $4,800

Reimbursements never exceed the allowance you set. Unused allowance isn't spent.

Action needed
3 employees haven't finished enrolling.
Send reminder
Sarah M.
Store manager
Enrolled
Mike D.
Shift lead
Enrolled
Jessica R.
Crew
Pending

Example employer dashboard. Figures are illustrative.

Built for franchises

Fits how franchises are actually built.

Corporate wants every location to have something to offer. Owners want to control their own costs. Those usually pull against each other — here they don't.

  1. Tier 1

    Franchisor

    Makes the program available across the system

    No payroll, no plans, no paperwork at corporate

  2. Tier 2

    Franchise owner

    Sets their own monthly contribution

    Each location decides independently

  3. Tier 3

    Employee

    Picks the plan that fits their family

    Their policy and their doctors — theirs to keep, at their own cost, if they leave

Underneath all three
Rikor runs the plan

Plan documents, the employee notices federal rules require, enrollment support, and tracking who is actually covered — for every location, without corporate administering any of it.

The details — separate employers, multi-unit owners, location-based allowances — are in how ICHRA works for franchises.

The mechanism

It's called an ICHRA. Now also a CHOICE Arrangement.

An Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement lets you reimburse employees, tax-free, for individual health insurance they choose. In September 2026 the federal government began calling it a CHOICE Arrangement — same rules, new name.

You don't need to understand it to use Rikor. But if you want to, it's worth knowing well.

What you're actually getting

The unglamorous parts, handled properly.

An ICHRA comes with real federal requirements. Most of the work is paperwork nobody wants to think about — which is exactly why we do it.

Plan documents, written and ready to sign

An ICHRA is a formal employee benefit plan. Your plan document and summary plan description are generated with your dates and your contribution, for you to review and e-sign.

The required employee notice, sent on time

Eligible employees must be told about the offer at least 90 days before the plan year starts. The notice goes out automatically and acknowledgments are tracked.

An affordability check you can run

If you have 50 or more full-time-equivalent employees, whether your contribution counts as “affordable” has a real answer. The dashboard shows it, employee by employee.

Help for your team, not just for you

Employees get help finding a doctor, understanding a bill and fixing a claim that went wrong — so those questions don’t land on your desk.

Find out what it would cost you.

Answer a few questions about your team and see real individual plan prices in your area, with your contribution applied. No account, no card, no call.