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Saving Costs When Fighting Cancer

Cancer treatment is one of the largest claim categories in any health plan. Self-funded employers can use steerage, centers of excellence, and case management to save.

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High Cost Late Stage Cancer Diagnosis

Late-stage cancer diagnoses are among the most expensive claims employers face. Here’s how early detection and plan design lower the long-term cost.

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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 employees.

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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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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 Benefits Package

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

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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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