AMPS Webinar: New cost containment strategies on the horizon that will enhance the services offered to your clients………………….
Continue reading AMPS Announces Additional Savings Opportunities
AMPS Webinar: New cost containment strategies on the horizon that will enhance the services offered to your clients………………….
Continue reading AMPS Announces Additional Savings Opportunities
Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions. Who Pays? You.
Health insurers are regarded as fierce defenders of health care dollars. But the case of David Williams shows one reason America’s health care costs continue to rise. The personal trainer spent years posing as a doctor and billing the nation’s top insurers, making off with millions.
Continue reading Health Insurers Make It Easy for Scammers to Steal Millions
AMPS, a rapidly growing healthcare cost containment and risk mitigation company, is expanding its Sales Team. If you are a seasoned sales executive in either the Northeast or Mountain region of the U.S., this is a great opportunity to join a talented team and help achieve our mission of making customers’ healthcare dollars go further.
In addition to providing a full-service replacement for traditional PBMs, WithMe Health is launching a medication guidance service that complements plan sponsors’ existing PBM infrastructure by personalizing medication selection and member guidance. The service helps employers and health plans curb their costs while optimizing member experience and outcomes.
Continue reading WithMe Health Partners With Centivo & Consociate Health
“While it’s common to see 20%+ increases in reinsurance this year, both in the last renewal cycle and this one partly driven by leveraged trend, there appear to be fewer new entrants looking to scoop up that business at a loss. So, we have repeatedly found ourselves in situations requiring 30%, 50%, and in some rare cases, even larger increases. Also concerning is the fact that many carriers are curtailing the offer of “no new lasers” contracts.”
Texas is the only state in the Union where the majority of Texas businesses can elect to non-subscribe. Thanks to our historical fore fathers, this option has been available since 1913.
Continue reading Patient Describes Experience At Methodist – San Antonio
Beware of Insurance Consultants Dress In Orange…………………
Continue reading South Texas Consultant Sentenced to Prison for $1M Fraud
Former high school coach makes fortune in the insurance industry……………………….
Continue reading Brownsville Texas Native Makes Fortune In Insurance Business
Texas school superintendent’s $2.25 million buyout threatens district’s finances………………..(Pssst…file this under Poor Risk Managment)
Continue reading “How I Made Millions Off Texas Taxpayers” by Elijah Granger
Rising Health Insurance Rates………..Cost Shifting To Plan Members……………Less Choice
Continue reading TRS ActiveCare Alternative Programs: Does it Make Sense for Your District?
CalPERS approved steep rate hikes for its cheapest health insurance plans Tuesday in an effort to save its most expensive plans from collapse…………….price hikes of up to 51% for health plans favored by young, healthy workers
“Members could save up to 80 percent on generics and 40 percent on brand-name medications when paying without insurance, according to Amazon.”
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Is your school district considering offering self-funded health plans to your employees? This document outlines things to consider when making this decision.”
The upcoming Texas legislative biennial session is fast approaching and lawmakers will have to address an historic $4.6 billion budget shortfall. “Tell all departments to be prepared to cut their budgets another 5%” dominates the Austin rumor mill these days.
An innovative and disruptive model designed to turn the industry on its head……….model has been shown to reduce health costs for their members by up to 40%…………members can customize the coverage to their individual needs…………..3 year rate guarantee in certain states…………Insured by
Continue reading Sidecare Health – Health Insurance That Makes Sense
Individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements (ICHRAs), a new employer-sponsored health care benefit program for active employees that became available this year, are drawing the attention of U.S. employers, particularly wholesale and retail employers and those in education and the public sector.
He saved the ACA in 2012 by declaring the individual mandate essential to the survival of Act and then may save the ACA again in 2020 by declaring that the individual mandate is not essential to the survival of the Act……………………….
Continue reading Is It Essential or Not Essential? It Can’t Be Both…………..
City terminates UHC and enters into direct contract with local hospital system for significant savings…..
Continue reading City Escapes PPO Cult – Abetted By Renegade Hospital
Lt. Col. E. Rusteberg – West Point 1934 – Two Silver Stars, One Bronze Star, Presidential Unit Citation (Battle of Hatten), Purple Heart.
“Don’t bother doing something unless you’re radically different from the competition” – Richard Branson
Continue reading Full Legal Representation for RBP Plan Members For $4.55 PEPM
Premiums can be 20% to 25% less for level funded plans than comparable community-rated plans………….An employer’s savings depend on the health of its employees and their families because an LFP plan is underwritten only for the specific employer’s employee population and not for a broader community.
Continue reading More Small Businesses Turn To Level Funded Plans
MyHealthGuide Source: GuideWell Mutual Holding Corporation via PRNewswire, 11/6/2020
JACKSONVILLE, FL — GuideWell Mutual Holding Corporation (GuideWell), the parent to a family of forward-thinking companies focused on transforming health care, announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to acquire WebTPA, an innovative and market leading administrator of self-funded employer health plans.
Continue reading WebTPA to Join GuideWell’s Family of Companies
SOURCE: Excerpt from Dave Chase ( Chapter 1: The Future of Health Will Be Local, Open and Independent – Relocalizing Health)
Bryan Perry, and direct primary care veteran, Clint Flanagan, have teamed up to serve employers such as the Bennett School District to reduce spending by ~50% while improving benefits.
Continue reading Bennett School District Reduces Health Care Cost by 50% With Better Benefits
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Today’s election is historic…………………..and may fundamentally change health care financing…………… Continue reading Medicare-For-All May Gain Legs Today
SOURCE: HR Policy Association
“The final rule requires employers to have their third-party administrators publicly disclose detailed health care pricing data. It also mandates that employers make available to health plan participants an internet-based self-service tool that provides price and personalized out-of-pocket cost information.
Continue reading Transparency Rule Mandates Employers Provide Internet Based Cost Information
SOURCE: Health Affairs Blog
“Insurer stakeholders quickly panned the new rule, arguing that it is unnecessary and will lead to higher (not lower) health care prices.
Continue reading Hospitals Claim Pricing Transparency Will Increase HealthCare Costs