Self-funded plans need to communicate with their employees and enrollees about their plans for health reform.   If they don’t, others will and the confusion this article shows will get much worse

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  Keeping up with the deluge of health reform regulations and requirements makes it easy to overlook a fundamental fact: Health reform directly impacts your plan enrollees, and how they react directly impacts your plan. Do you know what your... read more

A recent article from Healthcare Payer News covers a topic that warrants mention: bundled care plans. Consumer acceptance of bundled pricing is part of the emerging consumer engagement. Our webinar on Thursday 4/25 covers how self-funded plans... read more

Private health insurance exchanges like this are sprouting up all over.  Add in public exchanges, navigators and the rest and it gets more confusing.  Plans will be well advised to communicate with their enrollees to get through all this in one piece. 

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Check out this article from Business Insurance.  We’re working with the folks at Oceanus to spread the word about opportunities for brokers and consultants.   read more

Many companies with self-funded insurance plans hope to save money through cost-sharing. This webinar explains that these companies may not actually cut costs--and why this happens.

 

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As more employers hope to gain greater control of their group health costs, we are seeing a rise in employers choosing self-funded insurance plans, in particular those with administrative service-only policies. 

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A new article from Business Insurance reports that more than 40% of employees in a private insurance exchange choose to purchase less expensive insurance plans over pricier options.

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  National insurers, while late entrants to self-funding, have dramatically altered the self-funded market. Each of the national insurers has very similar administrative policies. These policies make good business sense for the insurers. But... read more

Claims and enrollment data are a self-funded plan’s most important (and often most overlooked) asset.  Do you know where your plan’s 2012 data are?  They are warehoused somewhere.  Whoever controls that warehouse controls your... read more