Containing Health Care Costs

Fallon recently announced they are leaving the commercial health insurance market to focus on Medicare plans.  On January 4, Tufts and Harvard Pilgrim announced they have formally combined the [...]

We are always looking for creative ways to control health care costs.  I think The Difference Card is a company that’s doing some really cool things using a medical expense reimbursement [...]

I recently had the opportunity to chat with Kevin Schlotman, who joined Flume Health in the summer of 2018 after a decade in the insurance industry.  He joined the founder of the company, Cédric [...]

Today I had the pleasure of speaking with Mark Galvin, President and CEO of My Medical Shopper, a robust medical care comparison shopping platform.  Mark is a serial tech entrepreneur with [...]

Individual Coverage HRAs (ICHRAs) allow an employer to reimburse employees and family members for the cost of individual health insurance and Medicare policies.  These plans became available on [...]

We’re always looking for ways that employers can contain health care costs.  I recently met with Andrew Thetford from CareHere.  Based in Naashville, Tennessee, CareHere specializes in [...]

Reference based pricing is becoming more popular as a way to control health care costs.  I am pleased that Eric Meyerhoff from ELAP Services agreed to answer a few questions about reference based [...]

We’ve had a couple of people ask about spousal surcharges and carveouts in the last week, so I thought it might be a good topic for a blog post. There are a few ways to reduce cost in your [...]

I covered level funding in a post last year:  https://www.millbrookbenefits.com/level-funding-could-save-you-money/, but the topic keeps coming up with clients as a potentially viable solution to [...]

On October 12, 2017, President Trump issued an executive order directing the Departments of Health and Human Services and Treasury to look into the possibility of using health reimbursement [...]