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

Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Healthcare & social assistance · Somerville, Massachusetts · EIN ending 0035

Updated Filing received by DOL

Mass General Brigham Incorporated, a healthcare & social assistance employer in Somerville, Massachusetts, reported 73,940 participants in its health and welfare plans for plan year 2025. Its Form 5500 shows 37 insurance contracts with no premium reported and $781,882 in broker commissions and fees. The plan is self-funded (the employer pays claims itself). The Department of Labor received the filing on July 23, 2026, before the deadline.

Participants
73,940
+0.9% vs 2024
Premiums filed
none
self-funded or not filed
Broker commissions + fees
$781,882
+2.6% vs 2024
Commission rate
n/a
needs insured medical premium

Who was paid on Mass General Brigham Incorporated's plan

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

Broker or agentCommissionsFeesTotalContracts
Willis Towers Watson · New York, NY$1,927$515,501$517,42833
Corestream · Tampa, FL$0$191,957$191,9571
Alight Solutions LLC · Lincolnshire, IL$0$47,989$47,9891
Clear View Consulting · Hopkinton, MA$23,995$0$23,9951
Mha Insurance Agency · Burlington, MA$513$0$5131

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

The 24 largest of 37 contracts reported on Schedule A: carrier, what it covers, people covered at year end, earned premium, and broker compensation.

Carrier · coverageCoveredPremiumBroker payRate
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americalong-term disability27—$530—
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americalong-term disability24—$233—
Metropolitan Life Insurance Companylife106,609—$384,190—
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americalong-term disability1,370—$5,655—
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americalong-term disability855—$3,584—
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americalong-term disability1,690—$7,192—
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americalong-term disability257—$898—
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americalong-term disability639—$2,847—
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americalong-term disability1,782—$7,284—
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americalong-term disability1,857—$7,095—
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americalong-term disability418—$1,665—
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americalong-term disability238—$1,090—
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americalong-term disability2,934—$9,388—
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americalong-term disability3,550—$14,043—
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americalong-term disability705—$2,203—
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americalong-term disability433—$1,536—
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americalong-term disability127—$663—
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americalong-term disability3,244—$11,784—
Ace American Insurance Companycoverage not coded————
Boston Mutual Life Insurance Companylife259—$513—
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americalong-term disability8—$38—
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americalong-term disability2,012—$4,201—
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americalong-term disability4—$20—
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americalong-term disability214—$8,926—

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 Mass General Brigham Incorporated 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
Mass General Brigham Incorporated
$781,882
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

$762,122$781,882Broker pay20242025
Mass General Brigham Incorporated: premiums and broker commissions + fees, 2024 vs 2025
20242025Change
Participants73,26873,940+0.9%
Premiums filed$0$0—
Broker commissions + fees$762,122$781,882+2.6%
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
Benefit Program for Mass General Brigham and Member Organizations#501 · insurance, general assetsDecember 31, 2025July 23, 2026before deadline73,940
Consolidated Retiree Medical Savings Account Program of Mass General Brigham and Member Organizations#560 · general assets, trustDecember 31, 2025July 21, 2026before deadline10,934
Mass General Brigham Retiree Benefits Plan#507 · general assetsDecember 31, 2025July 23, 2026before deadline1,110

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 Mass General Brigham Incorporated pay in health insurance broker commissions in 2025?

Mass General Brigham Incorporated's 2025 Form 5500 reports $781,882 in broker commissions and fees across 37 insurance contracts ($26,435 in commissions, $755,447 in fees), with Willis Towers Watson receiving the largest share.

Is Mass General Brigham Incorporated's health plan self-funded or fully insured?

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

How does Mass General Brigham Incorporated's broker compensation compare with similar employers?

A commission-to-premium ratio cannot be computed for Mass General Brigham Incorporated 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.