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Employee Benefits Package

An employee benefits package is more than premium and deductible. Self-funded plans let you design the package around what your workforce actually needs.

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Podcasts For Hr Professionals

Five recommended podcasts for HR professionals on self-funded health insurance, captives, employee experience, and the future of employer-sponsored benefits.

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What Makes A Great Benefits Advisor

Benefits advisors are critical to self-funded employer health insurance. Here’s how to tell a good advisor from a great one and what to expect at renewal.

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Understanding Stop Loss Insurance

Stop-loss insurance protects self-funded employers from catastrophic claims by pooling risk with similarly sized businesses through a group captive plan.

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Chronic Disease Management

Twenty percent of employees drive eighty percent of healthcare costs. Self-funded plans give you the data to manage chronic conditions

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Specialty Prescription Drugs

Specialty drugs are the fastest-growing line item in employee benefits. A self-funded plan gives you the visibility and levers to

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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

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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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Cost Savings Investigators

Roundstone’s Cost Savings Investigators (CSI) team digs into claims data to find waste, billing errors, and overcharges. Real dollars stay

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Ways Save High Cost Specialty Drugs

High-cost specialty drugs are reshaping employer pharmacy spend. Here are the ways self-funded employers save without restricting clinical access for

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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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