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What A Self-Funded Plan Looks Like
Choosing the right health plan model can be confusing (at best). When there are so many options out there and little information to help you understand the benefits available to you, it can be easy to just settle for the familiar fully insured option. But let’s face...

It’s time for healthcare to act humanly as we think digitally.
By Craig Maloney, CEOLast year I wrote an article on the digitization of today’s healthcare experience. What started as a post to promote the good work our team is doing in the clinical care management space ended up being an ongoing dialogue around technology’s place...

A Look Ahead: 2021 Healthcare Predictions
By Steve Kaltrider, Senior Director of Product 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic shed a lot of light on gaps in the healthcare industry, from how people access care to understanding their options. While we saw some immediate changes made in response to the pandemic and...

A Look Ahead: 2021 Predictions for HR
The past year has really illuminated the complexities of the healthcare system, especially when it comes to determining coverage, administering benefits and decoding options. HR teams were tasked with not only administering benefits, but also navigating new...

5 Strategies to Combat Low Healthcare Literacy
It’s no secret that healthcare is confusing. From understanding bills to finding an in-network provider and everything in between, many people are left to fend for themselves in a system that’s not designed to support them. Only 12% of Americans have proficient...

People-Focused Healthcare: How We’re Cutting Costs, Not Benefits
By Steve Kaltrider, Senior Director of ProductOne of the most common issues we hear about healthcare today is the cost. Unexpected bills, surprise charges, rising premiums, lack of insight into what something costs and why, not knowing how to find a fair price for...

People-Focused Healthcare: How We’re Taking the Burden Off of HR
By Anne Brunson, Vice President of Service Operations Healthcare today is pretty tough to navigate. Rising costs, jargon-filled benefits documents and opaque data (if you even get any data) are just a few of the issues many employers and members face today. We believe...

People-Focused Healthcare: How We Do Clinical Care Management
By Stephanie Williams, Vice President of Clinical SolutionsIt’s not a surprise that healthcare can be confusing for employers or the member. High costs, unclear benefits and tough-to-navigate care options are just a few of the hurdles many people face when navigating...

Working Toward a Better Healthcare System
This is not a new story: the U.S. healthcare system is in poor health. At a time when many Americans are already struggling to get by, many are now faced with unnerving choice: their health or their financial stability. Here are the concerning facts: 1 in 5 Americans...

What’s a fair price for good health? Let’s cut the costs.
It’s no secret that healthcare costs are out of control. But the mystery is the costs themselves. Today’s healthcare industry has a serious lack of consistency when it comes to how much care should cost—and employers and their health plan members are stuck paying the...

Meet the New Maestro Health: We’re More Than a TPA.
We’ve seen a lot of rapid change in the past year, from work routines to how we manage our wellbeing. While change can be a little uncertain, we’re using this as an opportunity to refresh our approach to healthcare. We’re kicking off the second half of the year with a...

5 Ways to Direct Your Members to the Right Care
As people struggle to adapt to current events, now is the time for employers to empower health plan members to take control of their healthcare and overall wellbeing. But it’s not as simple as just sending out an email reminding people about their benefits. When it...

Breaking the Mental Health Stigma at Work
It shouldn’t come as a surprise: employees have to deal with their mental health on a daily basis. In fact, 63% suffer from a diagnosable condition or illness, with anxiety, depression and addiction ranking at the top. In our recent Mental Health in the Workplace data...

The Hot Topic of Burnout at Work
American workers are no strangers to stress in the workplace. Poor work-life balances, lack of career growth, over-loaded schedules and, more recently, global pandemics all contribute to burdens too difficult to bear. But many employers aren’t providing the support...

Mental Health in the Workplace
When you spend at least a third of your life at work, it’s no surprise that your work environment can impact your wellbeing. But not all health issues are treated equally, or even supported, in the workplace. Take mental health, which has faced a long-standing stigma,...

Taking Control of Healthcare: Educating Employees
With so much uncertainty about the scale and duration of COVID-19, people around the world are worried about their wellbeing, their finances and their ability to access good healthcare. Unfortunately, the healthcare system is extremely complex and can be difficult to...

In Plain English: Cost-Saving Plans
Cost containment strategies are more critical than ever as healthcare costs are anticipated to rise even higher due to COVID-19. Today, we’re taking a deeper look at Individual Coverage HRAs, or ICHRAs. Let’s dive in. What’s an ICHRA again? An ICHRA, or Individual...

6 Reasons You Need More as a Broker
Traditional healthcare models just aren’t working for employers. Outrageous costs, confusing benefits information, poor claims processing and little to no data means that employers and employees are stuck with solutions that just aren’t built to care for their health....

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