Affordable Health Benefits for Small to Mid-Size Employers
Health Insurance & Employee Engagement: A Cost Saving Opportunity The health insurance marketplace is doing a pretty good job of introducing new and more effective strategies to reign in the escalating cost of healthcare. A day does not go by where a company is not pitching a solution to control […]
Healthcare benefits are a top three-line item expense for most employers. Worse, they are ever increasing, often seeing yearly increases of 10% or more. Unfortunately, most employers believe there isn’t a viable alternative to those year-over-year increases or a way to help reign in health benefit spending. Here are […]
Are you getting the most bang for your healthcare buck? Book Chrobak illustrates the perfect example that you don’t necessarily “get what you pay for” when it comes to medical care.
Written by Cindi Roberts, Stop Loss Claims Operations Manager Cost containment solutions fall into two broad categories – those focusing on reducing the price of health services and those focusing on reducing the frequency of health services. Many solutions addressing utilization concentrate on improving health so less […]
At Roundstone, we believe in a proactive approach to cost containment and plan language. Precise language which strictly states available coverage and full compliance to the terms required for coverage, combined with an administrator committed to the protection of the plan, are essential to controlling future costs. To assist employers […]
Employers are continually looking for ways to control medical costs. This is especially true for self-insured employers. One strategy that has emerged is the implementation of Referenced-Based Pricing (RBP). With RBP, the employer sets a maximum reimbursement tied to a particular benchmark. The amount that providers bill is arbitrary […]
Many women in the United States are waiting longer to give birth to their first child. In 1970 the mean age of a woman, when she first gave birth, was 21 years old. That age rose to 25 years old in 2000, and 28 years old in 2016. There are […]
We introduced the Roundstone Cost Saving Investigators (CSI Team) to help employers optimize the value of transparency and control. The CSI Team is always looking for ways to help employers maximize their self-funding benefits by providing cost saving solutions that can be implemented into their health plan. We want to […]
The Cost Savings Investigators (CSI Team) are not a single department, but rather a collection of professionals across several of Roundstone’s departments. They use their expertise to deliver the value of transparency and control to our captive participants. The CSI Team’s areas of expertise include: DATA […]