Containing Health Care Costs

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 [...]

One of the biggest cost drivers with the increasing cost of health care is the cost of prescription drugs.  I’ve had a couple conversations recently with Zach Jones from ScriptSourcing, and [...]

In a previous post, I suggested four questions for your CFO or CEO if he or she wants to start to get control over health care costs:  [...]