Some bright spots, but overall, better off elsewhere. - Analyst WellSense Health Plan Employee Review

1.0
Oct 28, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of genuinely talented people who say all the right things about providing humane health insurance. Great location, for however much longer that lasts. Generous salary and benefits.

Cons

Opportunities for professional growth and.or promotion limited. A punitive attitude towards training and employee performance; you either do things the way the boss wants them done, or you get written up. Differences in perspective are not really valued. The HR Department is unbelievably inept. My initial interview had to be rescheduled twice because there was no one around to actually conduct the interview when I arrived. Both times staff insisted I'd arrived at the wrong date/time, until I produced e-mails that confirmed I was at the right place at the right time. This continued after my employment. I interviewed for a job within the company, and the HR Rep made 4 firm, rock solid promises that she would have a decision by a certain date ... and broke every single one of them. And despite all the fine words about not being cost driven and making decisions solely on evidence based medicine, over and over again they make the exact same decisions their more money focused competitors make. The only difference is that when they issue a denial, people make a point of having a sad as if to prove it really wasn't about the money at all.

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5.0
May 5, 2026
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Pros

Flexible work schedule and great culture

Cons

Lots of self guided learning

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WellSense Health Plan Response
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Thank you for the positive feedback about our culture and flexible work arrangements. We're pleased these aspects of working here have been meaningful to you. We appreciate your note about onboarding and training resources. We're always looking at ways to strengthen support for team members as they grow in their roles. Your perspective helps us improve, and we're glad you're part of the WellSense team.
1.0
May 24, 2026
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Pros

You get BMC benefits. That's it, that's the only benefit but even those have been cut significantly.

Cons

If you’ve never experienced the Peter Principle in real life, I promise you, you will experience it here. Someone’s review from many years ago said that in 20+ years of professional experience, they had never worked in an environment in which so many people with no business supervising staff were given the responsibility of managing entire teams and I am here to tell you that that is a fact. Every manager in this company is completely incompetent. The most egregious example of their incompetence is that they had a VP level person running an entire department, representing themself as an RN, whose nursing license was expired for 3 years and the company had no idea until individual contributors reported it. Now, since they are wont to respond to reviews on here, I would like to get ahead of that now and ask those of you reading this to consider that in about 14 seconds, any of you could go to the state’s website or Nursys and find that this person’s nursing license expired years ago. I’ve never worked anywhere else that didn’t have a process in place to ensure that their professional staff kept their licenses up to date. This is a basic responsibility of running a healthcare business. They are also worse than a typical Peter Principle organization in that they continue to promote people beyond their level of incompetence. I watched an incompetent manager drive an entire team out twice over and the company’s response was to promote them. The culture is one of quiet retaliation and HR is completely useless. Finally, they are unethical. They are a supposed “not-for-profit” company but they subcontract for-profit third parties to deny necessary care. This is what your tax dollars are paying for. They don’t care about their staff nor the people they serve. They lost their accreditation and a contract for a major program in 2024 and for good reason. I won't be surprised if they lose several more contracts when the MassHealth contracts are up for renewal next year. BMC is a wonderful employer but do not be fooled, WellSense is not BMC. If you believe nothing else I say, believe this: you are not safe, psychologically or otherwise, at WellSense.

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