What to Pay Your Broker
Whether it is LinkedIn or conferences, we are inundated with conversations bashing benefits brokers. I wanted to take an opportunity to flip that around and…
Resources
The RBP Buying Conversation: It’s Not Apples-to-Apples
When I worked as a broker, I always believed that modest and selective diversification of carrier partners was important. For each line of benefits coverage…
Fee Structure — You Have a Better Idea?
Now that ClaimDOC has established itself as the gold standard for full-service RBP with veteran brokers, the bulk of sales come down to getting good…
Midyear Business Update
Around 2019, a broker in Georgia told us he wasn’t interested in telling anyone about how well we’d performed for his clients because he didn’t…
Medical Debt & Credit Impairment — Fear Tactics Taking a Hit
In case you missed it, the Biden administration recently announced that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would work toward removing medical…
Be a Leader, Protect Member Money
If your company is struggling with the ever-increasing cost of healthcare for your workforce, you must understand that there is no end to it. Changing…
Multiplan Probe — Who Hired Them Anyway?
The knives are out following an article in The New York Times that analyzes the business of out-of-network pricing by Multiplan and its fee structure.
Quality Metrics – Don’t Make Assumptions Based on Headlines
I recently came across a study dealing with “evidence-based medicine” in primary care (Ebell MH, Sokol R, Lee A, et al. How good is the…
Champagne for My Real Friends, Real Pain for My Sham Friends: Proposed Class Action Lawsuit Puts Spotlight on Fiduciary Duty Under ERISA
In early February of this year, a proposed class action lawsuit was filed against the company Johnson & Johnson and their Pension & Benefits Committee,…