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Employer health plan record · Plan year 2025 (latest filing) · Form 5500

Endeavor Health

Healthcare & social assistance · Evanston, Illinois · EIN ending 0691

Updated Filing received by DOL

Endeavor Health, a healthcare & social assistance employer in Evanston, Illinois, reported 28,328 participants in its health and welfare plan for plan year 2025. Its Form 5500 shows 18 insurance contracts with no premium reported and $1.4M in broker commissions and fees. The plan is self-funded (the employer pays claims itself). The Department of Labor received the filing on August 10, 2026, within the extension window.

Participants
28,328
+10.7% vs 2024
Premiums filed
none
self-funded or not filed
Broker commissions + fees
$1.4M
−28.2% vs 2024
Commission rate
n/a
needs insured medical premium

Who was paid on Endeavor Health's plan

Schedule A, Part I lists each broker or agent paid on each insurance contract and the amount. Totals below add every contract Endeavor Health filed for 2025.

Broker or agentCommissionsFeesTotalContracts
Custom Benefit Programs Inc. · Hammonton, NJ$748,606$17,678$766,2847
Aon · Chicago, IL$25,532$548,050$573,58216
Endeavor Health · Warrenville, IL$0$36,727$36,7271
Eoi Service Company · Chicago, IL$22,913$0$22,9131
Gallagher · Rolling Meadows, IL$8,561$0$8,5611

Source: DOL Form 5500 Schedule A, Part I (broker commissions and fees), plan year 2025, as published in EBSA's 2025 "Latest" dataset. Part I names whoever the carrier paid, which can be a firm or an individual agent; both are public record. Amounts exclude pay from carriers not tied to a listed contract.

Insurance contracts and carriers

Every insurance contract reported on Schedule A: carrier, what it covers, people covered at year end, earned premium, and broker compensation.

Carrier · coverageCoveredPremiumBroker payRate
Reliance Standard Life Insurance Companycoverage not coded10,037—$7,403—
Metropolitan Life Insurance Companylife389—$25,656—
Cigna Health and Life Insurance Companycoverage not coded4,733—$167,057—
Reliance Standard Life Insurance Companyshort-term disability442—$18,178—
Reliance Standard Life Insurance Companycoverage not coded183—$942—
Curalinc, LLC, dba Curalinc Healthcarecoverage not coded27,589———
Reliance Standard Life Insurance Companylife22,524—$20,000—
Combined Insurance Companycoverage not coded660—$65,803—
Combined Insurance Company of Americacoverage not coded120—$20,948—
Reliance Standard Life Insurance Companylife5,608—$20,000—
Cigna Health and Life Insurance Companycoverage not coded5,901—$189,103—
Cigna Health and Life Insurance Companycoverage not coded5,396—$319,078—
Metropolitan General Insurance Companycoverage not coded2,438—$76,919—
Metropolitan Life Insurance Companydental, vision33,665—$421,538—
Reliance Standard Life Insurance Companylong-term disability1,035—$20,000—
Reliance Standard Life Insurance Companylong-term disability21,242—$20,000—
Reliance Standard Life Insurance Companycoverage not coded22,524—$10,412—
Reliance Standard Life Insurance Companylong-term disability119—$5,030—

Source: DOL Form 5500 Schedule A, plan year 2025. Self-funded medical coverage has no premium; amounts shown for it are stop-loss or administrative contracts.

How Endeavor Health compares

Medians across employers for plan year 2024, the most recent complete year. Commission rates use fully insured medical contracts only; dollar medians use every employer that disclosed broker pay.

Broker commissions + fees, dollars
Endeavor Health
$1.4M
Commission rate, % of medical premium

Not computable: no insured medical premium on the filing.

Source: BenefitsLedger benchmarks from 58,547 employer health plans with 100 or more participants, plan year 2024. Methodology.

Year over year

$2.0M$1.4MBroker pay20242025
Endeavor Health: premiums and broker commissions + fees, 2024 vs 2025
20242025Change
Participants25,58328,328+10.7%
Premiums filed$0$0—
Broker commissions + fees$1,960,373$1,408,067−28.2%
Commission rate———

Source: DOL Form 5500 filings for plan years 2024 and 2025.

Filings and timeliness

Plans this employer filed under its EIN with a health benefit code. Large plans are due seven months after the plan year ends, or two and a half months later with an extension; amended filings carry the amendment date, so no timing is asserted for them.

PlanPlan year endReceived by DOLTimingParticipants
Endeavor Health Welfare Plan#510 · insurance, general assetsDecember 31, 2025August 10, 2026within extension28,328

Source: DOL Form 5500 Part I and signature dates; "late" means received after the extended deadline (the 15th day of the tenth month after plan year end). What a late Form 5500 costs.

How much did Endeavor Health pay in health insurance broker commissions in 2025?

Endeavor Health's 2025 Form 5500 reports $1,408,067 in broker commissions and fees across 18 insurance contracts ($805,612 in commissions, $602,455 in fees), with Custom Benefit Programs Inc. receiving the largest share.

Is Endeavor Health's health plan self-funded or fully insured?

The 2025 filing indicates the plan is self-funded (the employer pays claims itself).

How does Endeavor Health's broker compensation compare with similar employers?

A commission-to-premium ratio cannot be computed for Endeavor Health because the filing does not report medical premium on Schedule A (usual for self-funded plans). In dollars, employers with 5,000+ participants that disclosed broker pay reported a median of $458,262.

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Record built October 24, 2026 from U.S. Department of Labor, EBSA Form 5500 datasets (2025, 2024, 2023 plan years, 'Latest' files). Filings can run 7 to 10 months behind the plan year; always confirm against current plan documents. BenefitsLedger is not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Labor. Open the DOL filing search.