[ Our Story ]

At Unity Benefit Services, Inc. our goal is clear: to unite with employers and their employees and provide tax savings on the family costs of healthcare, childcare and eldercare from their benefit plans.

We firmly believe the key to a successful flexible benefit plan or cafeteria plan is employee participation. Likewise, we believe the key to employee participation is three-fold: education, convenience and flexibility. For these reasons, we uniquely combine the highest level of personal service with state-of-the-art technology to achieve well-educated employees who can easily participate in the plan in a variety of ways.

Our Values
Unity’s vision is to improve people’s lives by helping them save money on many of their family’s existing household expenses, such as healthcare, childcare and eldercare. As a result, Unity will also help their employers save payroll taxes, lower operating expenses based on payroll, and attract and retain quality people. Unity will realize this vision by educating employees on their family’s expenses and assisting them in the enrollment process. Once enrolled, we will process and reimburse their claims within one business day and give them a choice of convenient options to access both their account information and funds.

We maintain certain values which guide our way of business and ensure integrity, enthusiasm and experience. We personally believe our knowledge and skills are a ministry for serving others in the name and for the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

As our guiding principle, we treat all people with the same respect and service that we would expect to receive and safeguard all of their personal information as though it was our own. As a public accounting firm, we are bound by the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct. We believe the services we provide are valuable and important to others. With this belief, we have an enthusiasm about our services and love what we do. We have over 13 years of experience in working with the applicable IRS Code Sections. We are regularly updating our resources – both human & technological communication.

Leadership
Amy E. Roth, CPA is a native of Knoxville, Tennessee. She was a William E. Brock Scholar and received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Christopher Newport College (formerly a part of the college of William & Mary). Upon graduation, Ms. Roth joined the Nashville, Tennessee office of Ernst & Young as a tax accountant, where she specialized in the healthcare industry and earned her Certified Public Accountant designation in 1991. While in Nashville, Ms. Roth also served as client liaison to a national healthcare system on a decision support engagement. She integrated their clinical and financial records for the first time to allow procedure cost determination, third party payer evaluation, contract modeling and negotiation. In 1997 Ms. Roth returned to Knoxville and joined Medical Management Professionals, Inc., the nation’s third largest medical billing practice, where she was responsible for the complete financial management of hospital-based group medical practices.

With this background and experience, Ms. Roth recognized the need to combine her knowledge of taxation and healthcare and created Unity Benefit Services, Inc. She is currently the President of Unity Benefit Services, Inc. Ms. Roth is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants, where she serves on the Small Business Services Committee.

History
Unity Benefit Services, Inc. (Unity) began in May 2002, with the conviction that both working families and businesses need help in controlling the expenses of healthcare and childcare. Thus, Unity was created to unite employers and employees in achieving the tax savings provided by the federal government through the use and participation in flexible benefit plans, such as Cafeteria Plans and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA). The goal of Unity is also supported by our personal faith in Jesus who taught, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's.” The government has provided us with a way to save on the federal taxes of healthcare and childcare, and our purpose is to help you benefit from this.