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The First 90 Days After You Change Brokers: What Implementation Actually Looks Like

Every employer who’s ever considered changing brokers has had the same conversation behind closed doors. The current relationship isn’t working — the service has gone stale, the strategy...

Building Benefits Programs That Scale With Your Growth

Most mid-market employers design their benefits programs for the organization they are today, not the organization they’re becoming. A 500-employee manufacturer implements a fully-insured PPO...

When Wellness Programs Become Performative Theater: Why Most Employee Health Initiatives Fail — And What Actually Works

Walk through any mid-market employer — whether it’s a 1,200-employee manufacturing operation, a tribal government managing health clinics and casinos, or a regional healthcare system — and...

Why Data Without Strategy Is Just Expensive Noise

This piece was developed for employers who operate level-funded, partially self-funded and fully self-funded benefits programs. While some insurance carriers do relay robust data sets to fully-insured...

Why Alternative Health Plan Models Are No Longer Just for Giants

For decades, self-funding and alternative health plan models lived in the domain of Fortune 500 enterprises—organizations with thousands of employees, sophisticated finance teams, and the risk...

The GLP-1 Reckoning: When One Drug Category Rewrites Your Entire Benefits Budget

A Minnesota school district recently discovered something that should terrify every HR director managing pharmacy costs: GLP-1 medications—drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro—represented just 2%...

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