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HR’s 2022 Healthcare Agenda
HR leaders will face big challenges in the year ahead — including, another year of rising health plan costs and worsening population health. To understand how HR plans to move forward and what support they’re receiving from insurers and plan administrators, Maestro...

How Maestro Health Does Clinical Care Management Better.
Blog Post How Maestro Health Does Clinical Care Management Better. Going self-funded has big benefits for many employers which can result in serious cost savings and better health outcomes. Our in-house clinical care management program leverages a data-driven approach...

Featured in BenefitsPRO: How claims data technology is becoming an expectation.
Featured in BenefitsPRO: How claims data technology is becoming an expectation.Featuring Anne Brunson, VP of Service OperationsOriginally featured in BenefitsPRO. BenefitsPRO chatted with Anne Brunson, Maestro Health's VP of Service Operations, about the future of...

Better Benefits Exist With Maestro Health.
We’re putting employers in control of their healthcare costs with a sustainable, scalable self-funded solution. Our approach to self-funded benefits is designed to arm you with more flexibility, transparency, cost management strategies and plan insights. There are a...

Breaking Down the “No Surprises Act”
In December 2020, Congress signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act (“CAA”) into law. Among other provisions, the CAA includes the No Surprises Act. The No Surprises Act requires all group health plans, including grandfathered plans, to apply in-network cost sharing...

Featured in HR.com: How HR can make employee health plans more people-focused
Featured in HR.com: How HR can make employee health plans more people-focusedBy Anne Brunson, Vice President of Service OperationsOriginally featured in HR.com. HR faces the same situation time and time again: an employee comes to them with a benefits question or...

5 Reasons to Move to a Self-Funded Health Plan
5 Reasons to Move to a Self-Funded Health Plan Let’s level set: healthcare is a frustrating experience for everyone, especially employers who have to deal with rising costs and little control over the plan. The past year has only brightened the spotlight on the...

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.
Last 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 in healthcare.

A Look Ahead: 2021 Healthcare Predictions
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 economic crisis last year, there is still tremendous room for disruption and growth in the year ahead.

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
One 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 good care. The list goes on.

People-Focused Healthcare: How We’re Taking the Burden Off of HR
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.

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...

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