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What Is A Captive

A group captive lets like-sized employers pool risk, share data, and capture savings together. It’s the structural alternative to fully insured health insurance.

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Direct Primary Care

Direct primary care gives employees unlimited access to a primary doctor for a flat fee, cutting ER visits and lowering total claims spend.

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Health Insurance Self Funding

With Roundstone’s self-funded health insurance, you’re not shopping a fixed product. You’re designing a plan around your workforce, claims data, and goals.

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Small Business Health Insurance

Small business health insurance doesn’t have to mean fixed plans and surprise renewals. Group captive self-funding makes the model accessible

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Why Self Funding

Why self-funding? Claims transparency, vendor flexibility, surplus return, and structural protection against the volatility that fully insured plans actively hide.

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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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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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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

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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

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Cost Containment Strategies

Effective cost containment starts with claims data, clinical care management, pharmacy optimization, and direct primary care partnerships working as one

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Healthcare Cost Savings

Real healthcare cost savings come from claims transparency, smart vendor choices, and proactive clinical management. Self-funding makes all three possible.

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Employee Wellness Engagement

Strategic incentives, education, and communication can increase wellness program engagement by 40-60%. Here’s how self-funded employers design programs that actually

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Employee Healthcare

Employee healthcare is the largest controllable line item on most P&Ls. Self-funded plans give you the data to manage spend

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Workplace Wellness Books

Five recommended reads on workplace wellness, from behavioral health to chronic disease management, for HR leaders building healthier, more engaged

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Customer Experience At Roundstone

Customer experience at Roundstone is anchored in responsive service, proactive claims navigation, and the team that supports employers through every

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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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