Many innovative employers are addressing the challenges of growing healthcare costs and the impact to their businesses. One approach to solve this challenge is an employer-sponsored Direct Primary Care plan...
Earlier this month, the Gasparilla Inn and Club held its annual Employee Benefit Education sessions where over 300 participants learned directly from healthcare professionals about the employer-sponsored plan and available...
Cristy Gupton, our Mitigate Partners member from the Carolinas, will speak at the DisruptHR Charleston event this Thursday, May 18, 2023. Her title is called, “A Spontaneous Mentorship Moment.” If...
Every year in every company, leaders make tough decisions about funding new projects or upgrades to improve productivity and performance. New product lines, technology upgrades, office enhancements, and many others...
What’s Driving the Cost of Health Insurance (Hint: It’s all about the profits.) Every exchange of goods and services includes an exchange of value. Or otherwise stated, every purchase costs...
Primary care, simplified
July 28, 2021by Cristy Gupton
Our very own, Cristy Gupton was featured in an article in the Business North Carolina discussing Direct Primary Care (DPC).
Living in a small town in America has its pros and cons. The pros? Wide-open spaces and simpler living, a neighborly connection to the people around you, and being surrounded by nature, which soothes the soul. The cons? However, there’s little access to the conveniences of urban life.
Health Insurers Use Cash and Gifts to Sway Which Benefits Employers Choose
February 20, 2019by Carl Schuessler
The pitches to the health insurance brokers are tantalizing. “Set sail for Bermuda,” says insurance giant Cigna, offering top-selling brokers five days at one of the island’s luxury resorts. Health...
My wife’s story: Anatomy of an insane health care billing system by Carl C. Schuessler
November 4, 2018by Carl Schuessler
Recently, my wife went to the doctor with stomach issues. The doctor recommended a simple diagnostic test called a HIDA scan. We have an HSA high-deductible health insurance plan with...
Benefit advisers must innovate or see their business escape into the hands of someone more ambitious and harder working. That was the consensus of a panel, called “Disrupting the benefits...