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Roundstone’s tenth annual Medical Captive Forum returns to Cleveland April 30 to May 1, 2025, focused on employer alignment, cost control, and profit.
Effective cost containment starts with claims data, clinical care management, pharmacy optimization, and direct primary care partnerships working as one strategy.
More employers are choosing self-funded insurance to take control of healthcare spend. A group captive makes the model accessible even to small companies.
Captive insurance and self-funded insurance overlap but are not the same. Here’s how a group medical captive complements a self-funded health plan.
Real healthcare cost savings come from claims transparency, smart vendor choices, and proactive clinical management. Self-funding makes all three possible.
Employer health benefits are the second-largest line item after payroll. Self-funding gives you the visibility and levers to manage that spend directly.
Level funded and self-insured plans look similar but only self-funding returns surplus. Why not eat pie and keep the leftovers?
Top employer health insurance options now go well beyond fully insured. Self-funded plans, captives, and association plans give mid-market employers
Every fully insured renewal feels like opening a box of pain. Self-funded insurance plans replace surprise increases with claims data
Saving money on healthcare starts with claims transparency and ends with structural cost containment. Self-funded plans give employers both.
Red pill or blue pill? Here’s what the insurance industry doesn’t want employers to know about claims data, vendor markups,
What would Tom Cruise do? Choose Mission Possible. Here’s how the benefits of self-insurance let employers take impossible-feeling cost containment
Provider network choice shapes employee care, plan costs, and out-of-pocket spend. Here’s how self-funded employers pick the right one.
Pharmacy costs are rising faster than any line item in your health plan. Here’s how to choose a PBM that
Per-employee-per-year (PEPY) cost is the truest benchmark for whether your health plan is competitive. Here’s how to use it to
Your pharmacy benefit manager makes or breaks drug spend. Here’s how self-funded employers choose a PBM aligned with their interests,
A third-party administrator (TPA) is the backbone of any self-funded plan. Here’s how a TPA processes claims, manages eligibility, and
Finding the right TPA shapes claims accuracy, employee experience, and total spend. Here are 8 secrets self-funded employers use to
Wellness programs deliver measurable ROI through reduced claims, lower absenteeism, and stronger productivity. See how self-funded employers track and prove
For most CFOs, healthcare costs now eat directly into profitability. This Roundstone leadership study shows where the spend goes and
Healthcare cost containment finds waste, removes it, and keeps outcomes intact. Self-funded plans give you the claims data to do
Self-funding gives you the control, claims visibility, and flexibility to attack the cost drivers that fully insured plans actively hide
Effective cost containment starts with claims data, clinical care management, pharmacy optimization, and direct primary care partnerships working as one
Real healthcare cost savings come from claims transparency, smart vendor choices, and proactive clinical management. Self-funding makes all three possible.
If renewal season has you bracing for a double-digit increase, it’s time to look at self-funding. Here’s how the model
Renewal season is the moment benefit advisors prove their value. Here’s how to prepare with claims data, scenario modeling, and
Introducing self-funded health insurance to employees is mostly about communication. Here’s how to explain the model, the value, and what
Well-being programs improve employee health while reducing benefit cost. Here’s how strategic incentives drive participation and engagement that actually sticks.
It’s hiring season. Top talent expects benefits that show employers actually invested in employee health. Here’s how self-funding helps you
Cultivating a culture of healthcare consumerism takes employee education, transparent tools, and steady communication. Here’s how to engage your team.
Employers can use wellness programs to improve employee health while controlling cost. Here’s how to launch a well-being program that
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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