Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Overview
Hallmark Cards, Inc. sponsors a self-funded health plan that covered 5,060 participants in plan year 2025, down 13% from the prior year. The plan year starts in January. Alongside medical, its benefits filing reports life insurance, dental, vision, short-term disability, and more.
- Plan type
- ERISA welfare benefit plan, self-funded (benefits paid from employer assets or a trust)
- Participants
- 5,060 · prior year 5,785
- Plan year
- Begins January 1 · next renewal January 2027
- Health plans filed
- Health and Welfare Benefit Plan, plan 514 (5,060 participants); Retiree Medical Plan, plan 520 (82 participants)
- Stop-loss carrier
- HCC Life Insurance Company; HCC Life Insurance Company
- Broker compensation
- $90K across insured contracts
Insurance carriers
Insured coverage reported on Schedule A. Self-funded medical claims aren't reported there.
| Carrier | Coverage | Covered | Premium | Broker comp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Life Insurance Company | Life | 5,737 | $3.1M | $36K |
| HCC Life Insurance Company | Stop-loss | 3,566 | $734K | $37K |
| Surency Life and Health | Vision | 1,736 | $679K | — |
| Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company | Vision, Medical, Dental | 1,317 | $393K | — |
| United Behavioral Health DBA Optum | Employee Assistance Program | 14,005 | $217K | — |
| Prudential Insurance Company of America | Business Travel Accident, AD&D | 7,044 | $152K | $12K |
| New York Life Group Insurance Company of NY | Short-term disability | 570 | $51K | $487 |
| Life Insurance Company of North America | Long-term disability, Short-term disability | 90 | $24K | $296 |
Pharmacy benefit estimate
StreamRX estimate for a plan this size. Not based on this plan's claims.
Estimated prescription spend: 5,060 participants × $2,371 national average per member. Usually higher once dependents are counted.
Typical savings opportunity found in independent reviews of plans this size.
Form 5500 filing details
- Filing
- Form 5500 with Schedule A, plan year 2025
- Plan sponsor
- Hallmark Cards, Inc.
- Sponsor EIN
- 44-0272180
- Plan numbers
- 514, 520
- Filed with
- U.S. Department of Labor (EBSA) via EFAST2
Verify this filing: search EIN 44-0272180 in the Department of Labor's EFAST2 Form 5500 search.
Retirement plan
- Plan
- Business Performance Savings Plan of Hallmark Cards, Incorporated
- Type
- 401(k) plan
- Participants
- 8,192
About this data
Source: Hallmark Cards, Inc.'s Form 5500 filing for plan year 2025 and its Schedule A insurance reports, published by the U.S. Department of Labor. "Self-funded" means the filing reports benefits paid from employer assets or a trust, with no medical insurance contract or with a stop-loss contract. Pharmacy figures are StreamRX estimates based on national averages. StreamRX is not affiliated with Hallmark Cards, Inc..