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Group Medical Captive Forum 2025

Roundstone’s 2025 Medical Captive Forum brought hundreds of employers and advisors to Cleveland for two days focused on tackling rising healthcare costs.

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Data & Performance
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Healthcare Cost Containment

Healthcare cost containment finds waste, removes it, and keeps outcomes intact. Self-funded plans give you the claims data to do it at scale.

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Funding Basics
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Higher Deductibles And Self Funding

Higher deductibles shift cost to employees and often backfire on engagement and retention. Self-funding offers a smarter path to controlling premium growth.

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Data & Performance
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Cost Containment Self Funding

Self-funding gives you the control, claims visibility, and flexibility to attack the cost drivers that fully insured plans actively hide from view.

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Self Insured Vs Fully Insured

Self-insured plans give employers control over claims, vendors, and spend. Fully insured plans hide the data. Here’s how the two

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Funding Basics
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Captive Insurance Healthcare Costs

Captive insurance changes how employers absorb and manage healthcare costs. Group medical captives turn unpredictable claims into a controllable, transparent

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Funding Basics
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Cfo Books

Five recommended reads for CFOs who want to take control of healthcare spend, understand the self-funding model, and stop accepting

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Funding Basics
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Medical Captive Advisor

A medical captive advisor helps employers evaluate self-funded captives, compare partners, and design a plan that protects against catastrophic claims

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Funding Basics
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Disadvantages Of Level Funding

Level funding looks like self-funding from a distance but lacks claims transparency, vendor flexibility, and surplus return. Here are ten

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Prescription Drug Prices

Prescription drug prices are the fastest-growing cost in employer benefits. Self-funded plans give you the visibility and tools to bend

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Plan Design & Partners
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Benefits Subrogation Strategy Plan

A subrogation strategy recovers dollars that another responsible party should pay. Here’s how self-funded employers and captives build a plan

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Plan Design & Partners
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Numbers Organ Transplants

Organ transplants by the numbers: volume, average cost, and what self-funded employers should know about preparing for these high-impact, high-cost

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Choosing A Tpa

Choosing a TPA is one of the highest-leverage decisions in a self-funded plan. Here are the tips employers use to

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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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