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How Nostalgia is Misleading Employee Health Plans
Matthew McCormick, Director, Partner Sales Having spoken with and met hundreds, if not thousands, of employee benefit brokers, I’ve noticed a recurring, fundamental theme runs through our discussions: .. Many within the healthcare space have been led astray by nostalgia. Nostalgia is a beautiful word It brings back fond memories. It evokes a sense of…
Read MoreTrue Market Forces Will Soon Be Unleashed in Healthcare
In a matter of months, our healthcare system and the overall patient experience will change dramatically for the better. And most Americans don’t even realize it. After decades of attempts to transform the healthcare system into a true market—one in which forces like competition between providers based on quality and pricing can bring prices down, it is finally happening. The…
Read MoreWhy Talon?
The business of healthcare and health insurance is mean. If you want to survive in this industry, you have to be scrappy and practice grit on a daily basis. The players within the market can be tough and inflexible. In 2014, we first demonstrated the prototype of MyMedicalShopper, alongside our campy mascot, “Dr. Hoot. Dr.…
Read MoreBuilding a Village: Why Fixing the Broken Healthcare System should also involve Human Resource Outsourcing organizations (HROs) and Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs)
By Amnon Gavish, EVP of Corporate Development & Strategy Due to the COVID-19 crisis, PEOs’ and HROs’ services are expected to expand beyond their traditional customer zones (See Oliver Wyman: The Potential New Normal in Insurance Products). As a result, they may also have an opportunity to play a major role in fixing our broken…
Read MoreDeath by Complacency
By Matthew McCormick, Partnership Executive, MMS Analytics, Inc. As the pandemic known as COVID-19 came to the forefront of our daily lives, my mind, like many of yours, undoubtedly leapt towards “What are the consequences of this virus upon my career?” First and foremost, I am fortunate that, at the publishing of this blog, I…
Read MoreHealthcare Costs for Dummies, by a Dummy
By Doug Horner, Content Marketing Strategist Recently, our EVP of Sales and Sales Strategy explained how his background in consumer electronics has influenced his approach to working in healthcare. I, too, have a background in consumer goods, but less in electronics, and more in beer and cannabis (yes, that kind of cannabis). So, hi. I’ll…
Read MoreDon’t Be Blind to Healthcare Overspending
By David Spear, EVP of Sales and Strategy I’m a bit new to the healthcare industry, though as a consumer I am quite aware how the current dynamics in healthcare drive our behavior in all the wrong ways. As a consumer, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been told “don’t worry about the…
Read MoreThree key characteristics of a successful Employer Champion
By Shaylin McNally, Director of Customer Success So, your company has just rolled out this great new benefit (MyMedicalShopper!), and you’ve been assigned the role of Employer Champion. You might be thinking, why me? And that’s a great question. The simple answer: probably because we told them to. Not explicitly, of course. But this is…
Read MoreHealthcare deductibles are not like golf—lower actually is NOT better!
By Mark Galvin, Co-Founder/CEO, MMS Analytics, Inc. If I agreed to give you $20,000 if you would agree to roll a pair of dice and give me back the number that came up x $1,150 (somewhere between $2,300 and $13,800), would you want to participate (and be guaranteed to make between $6,200 and $17,700)? If…
Read MorePay Attention! How to Get People to Care About Healthcare at Work
By Matthew McCormick, Partnership Executive, MMS Analytics, Inc. According to MetLife’s most recent Employee Benefit Trends Study, “the most important benefits to employees have two things in common: 1) they play a central role in helping them achieve their personal and work-related goals, and 2) they address their main stressors, particularly around personal finances, retirement,…
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