Selling and Marketing
Branding Your Self Funded / Self Insured Plan Offering
Enrolling employees in healthcare benefits and marketing healthcare benefits enjoys the advantage of having a captive audience AND established channels to reach them.
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Corporate Wellness and the Role of Chronic Disease Monitoring
: While statistics may vary, in a typical modern company about 12 percent of their population is Type-II diabetic and upwards of 20 percent suffer from other chronic diseases such as hypertension and heart-related issues.
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Have You Tuned Up Your Captive Lately?
All self-funded organizations are faced with significant overhead cost for their operations, particularly in these economic times and soft market.
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The Fallacy of ROI as a Measurement Tool……Shouldn’t it be ROF? But Even then, it’s Useless
How often do you see ROI (Return on Investment) being used by managed care service providers to promote the “financial benefits” of their product? “ROI 10 to1” says one company.
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“The Group Captive Meets Medical Expense”
Health Care Reform is debated in every news outlet, every day. Ideas for a government plan option stir debate along with other wide ranging suggestions on how to stop the runaway cost of health care
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2010 Healthcare Costs Likely To Rise at Higher Rate Than 2009
The “Kaiser Family Foundation” (KFF) publication titled “2009 Kaiser Employer Health Benefits Survey” can be viewed on-line; I would not recommend that you print it unless you want all 238 pages in hard copy. In doing this survey they completed full interviews with 2,054 firms from January to May 2009.
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Corporate Governance and Risk Management: Your Insurance Broker’s Role
The notorious Enron, Tyco and WorldCom scandals – to name but a few – trailed behind them an unparalleled crisis in corporate governance, here and abroad.
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Employers Guide to Self Funding Healthcare Part 1
Most self-funded or self insured employers want flexibility in making key decisions on benefits, administration and funding, yet need to limit their liability
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The Future of Self Funding and the Self Insurance Industry
As we enter a new year, 2010, the self insurance industry is poised for significant growth. The new healthcare reform bill if passed into law will eliminate the annual excise tax on third party administrators,
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The Rap on Wrap Plan Documents
Let’s start with the basics. A “wrap” plan document is legal document that combines and incorporates, by reference, all group insurance policies and contracts that
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Health Care and Telemedicine
Telemedicine is the practice of health care delivery, diagnosis, consultation, treatment and the transfer of medical data through interactive audio, video or data communications that occur in the physical presence of the patient, including audio
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