PARTNERMike Andrade

HealthCare Warrior

As a Benefit Consultant, Michael Andrade is literally changing the way employers think about their health insurance program. He uses his unique combination of market data, research, and life experiences to help his client’s craft health plans built for long-term success.

Michael Andrade served in the healthcare, employee benefits, and financial services space since 1993. As an independent benefit advisor, he is a champion for changing solving complex healthcare challenges with simple and effective solutions. He uses his unique combination of market data, practical innovations, research, and life experiences to help his client’s craft health plans built for long-term success.

Mike specializes in working with self-funded or would like to be self-funded plans. He is a lead advisor and team leader for his firm BenefitUand considers his job to be an advocate, mad scientist, researcher, and service guru. He is a Certified Health Rosetta Advisor. This is an exclusive ecosystem of only 200advisorsnationallywho are selected for their ability to impact plan cost while improving benefits through vetted national and local solutions that drive 10%-40% savings to employers.

Michael is not a native Texan, but he got here as soon as he could. He’s lived in the Houston area since1996and prior to that was a resident of California.

Andrade is the Founder and host of the industry-leading podcast SolvingHealthcare, where he identifies and promotes companies that are positively disrupting healthcare. His podcast interviews can be found at www.solvinghealthcare.net and have been downloaded in 27 countries, 5continents, and in almost every state in the United States. Andrade resides in Sugar Land, TX with his wife Tracy. Together they have 6 kids and 2 grandkids.

GET IN TOUCHContact Mike

Address

25282 Northwest Freeway
Suite 170
Cypress, TX 77429

Phone

832 236 8966

Email

mike@benefitu.com

CV AND AWARDSMike up close

Work experience
Awards & Honours

1993-1998
Financial Underwriter for a major health insurance company
2000-2005
Sales Leader with a major Insurance company
2005-2012
Executive for a major insurance company
Benefits Advisor for a national brokerage firm.
Independent Healthcare Warrior – Always!

2020 – Health Rosetta Associate Advisor

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Consultancy Cases

MORE THAN JUST BUSINESS

Great Clients
Awesome Reviews

“We Love Mike. He’s done an amazing job transforming our benefits, costs, and is always available to our employees when they need help. Our costs have also dropped by over 30%. With 200 employees every dollar counts. We’ve been able to keep our employee costs the same for the last five years because of working with Mike.”

Barbie Kennedy, HR Director

Indoor Media

“Mike is not a typical broker. We had years of traditionally bad broker advice about discounts, rebates, and carrier relationships. Our costs are lower in 2020 than they were in 2015 because we took deliberate actions to challenge the status quo. It’s been a long journey as change doesn’t happen overnight. As a result, our employees pay considerably less for benefits than our competitors and they keep more of their money when they use their benefits because of smart shopper options.”

Brent Herbert, Chief People Officer

Dupre Logistics

“This is our second year working with Mike. When we first started to discuss our benefits he brought to us options that produced savings over 50% of our then current costs. We opted for a gentle nudge to our medical plan and saved just over 40%. We opted to give some of the savings to our employees. With employee point-in-time education we’ve been able to lower our costs by an additional 10% this renewal and our employees absolutely love the savings.”

Randy Garcia. Chief of Strategy