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Plan Design & Partners
Roundstone Team

Why Does Pepy Matter For Healthcare Plans

With premiums escalating, employers must start managing per-employee-per-year (PEPY) cost performance. Here’s why PEPY is the benchmark that matters.

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Case Study
Roundstone Team

Success Story Dialysis Repricing

Success story: a self-funded group captive plan let a mid-market employer reprice dialysis claims, saving significant dollars on a recurring catastrophic expense.

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Funding Basics
Roundstone Team

From The Desk Of Mike Schroeder February 2019

From the desk of Mike Schroeder, Roundstone founder, February 2019: notes on the captive program, advisor partnerships, and trends in self-funded health insurance.

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Employee Experience
Roundstone Team

Cultivating A Culture Of Health Care Consumerism

Cultivating a culture of healthcare consumerism takes employee education, transparent tools, and steady communication. Here’s how to engage your team.

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Self-funding means an employer pays for their employees’ healthcare claims directly instead of paying fixed premiums to an insurance carrier.

A medical group captive is a self-funded model where small and mid-sized employers join together to access financial advantages, share risk and gain greater stability.

Stop-loss insurance protects self-funded employers from large or unexpected claims. It caps financial risk so one high-cost event doesn’t significantly impact your overall healthcare spend.

Health insurance costs rise due to increasing healthcare prices, higher utilization, and lack of transparency in traditional models. Learn how self- funding through a captive can help offset these trends.

Cost containment includes strategies that reduce unnecessary healthcare spending while maintaining quality care. Read how tactics like claims analysis, preventative care, and pharmacy cost management can reduce spend.

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