Last week we talked about how insurance drives the cost of care. This week, I am going to talk about control. I imagine you have a high degree of control in how you run your business. Would you be interested to know that you can use the same principles to guide your health plan… and free up cash […]
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Most companies are serious about workplace safety and that goes even for office workers, whom they provide with proper chairs and ergonomically appropriate workstations. But with so many people suddenly having been thrust into working from home, workers have converted guest bedrooms, kitchen tables and living rooms into workspaces ― and ergonomics has mostly gone
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If you are like most people –employers, employees, patients –you probably think that healthcare is expensive. Sometimes… but usually it is just expensive when the insurance “apparatus” gets in the middle. Would you prefer to pay $1860.97 for a CMP … or $12 Would you prefer to pay $9900 for a colonoscopy or $1852? Learn how here: https://youtu.be/eP56tQlonOM
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With large employers expecting health insurance rates to climb 5.3% in 2021, they are concerned about how the COVID-19 pandemic will affect overall health care costs in the coming years, a new survey has found. Those expectations gleaned from the survey by the National Business Group on Health would mean average premiums and out-of-pocket spending
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An insurance carrier is being sued again for “cross-plan offsetting.” I imagine that is a new term for most of you… It is a cost-containment tool that penalizes employers. And, we are not going to pick on any one insurance company… I suspect every insurance company does this. So… what is it, why is it costing
A second court has ruled that an insurer does not have to pay business interruption claims by businesses that saw their revenues run dry due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which will further make it difficult for business to successfully file such claims. In the most recent case, a Superior Court judge in the District of
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Never insure anything you can afford to replace is good insurance advice… yet we do exactly the opposite with our healthcare budget. This might be a brand new take on health care payment strategies in a way that will bring you faster, better results. See the thing is, when most people when they talk about health care
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President Trump has issued executive orders aimed at reducing the cost of medications by tying Medicare payment for outpatient drugs to international prices, passing drug-maker rebates to patients and not middlemen, and allowing individuals to import prescription medications. Another executive order aims to force community health centers that receive 340B drug discounts to pass discounts
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Armies march on their bellies said Napoleon Bonaparte… and Health Plans run on their Summary Plan Description (plan document). When you think about it like that, can you see how your plan document makes it simple to bend your health care plan to your goals and budget? When most people talk about plan documents, they shrivel
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Commercial property insurance rates are on the rise across the country as insurers continue wrestling with the toll of increasing natural disasters, rising social unrest around the world (including the U.S.) and the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, insurance companies have become more stringent in their underwriting by restricting some coverages and excluding risks that may have
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This is the face you make after a minor mishap with filming!
My introduction before Craig Lack is now long lost footage.
That’s show biz, right?!
The good news is that Craig is talking about the strategies we’re both using to help organizations liberate the dollars trapped in their health spend.
I’m available after you watch and learn to talk the nitty gritty – how it works, implementation, executive buy-in and employee adoption.
Happy Watching!
