Broker News & Updates
Add Value to Pharmacy Benefit by Driving Out Waste
As fiduciaries, plan sponsors have a responsibility to provide proper oversight of what their pharmacy benefit plan spends money on. Plan sponsors may feel their fiduciary duty is met by conducting regular competitive bidding of key vendors. While this is important,...
The Rights & Responsibilities of Plan Sponsors as Fiduciaries
The National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions (NAHPC) hosted a great webinar detailing the rights and responsibilities of Plan Sponsors as fiduciaries. To help better educate our members on this important topic, we’ve summarized our key takeaways for you,...
A Repeat Success: How One Employee Made a Big Difference in Her Coworkers’ Health – And Did It Again
The Alliance awarded Traci Rothenburger, with a Health Transformation Award on Oct. 1, 2020, in recognition of significantly improving her employees’ access to high-value health care by creating an on-site direct primary care clinic. The Alliance created a case...
What Are The Benefits of Hosting a Vendor Summit?
As you begin the new year, you’re probably reassessing your benefit plan and vendor partners to help improve your employees’ health and wellbeing. If you want to enhance your employee experience, reduce spending waste, and improve vendor efficiency, consider holding...
Driving Value: Creating a Mobile Health Clinic En Route to $4 Million in Savings
The Alliance awarded Matt Ohrt, VP of HR and Medical Services at Merrill Steel, with a Health Transformation Award on Oct. 1, 2020, in recognition of significantly improving his community’s access to high-value health care by creating an on-site and mobile health...
Opportunities for Employers to Lead – Stopping the Spread of COVID-19 Webinar Recap
The Alliance, Business Health Care Group (BHCG), and WEA Trust and Health Tradition Health Plan were pleased to host a webinar with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Population Health Institute on Dec. 10. The webinar featured Dr. Jon Meiman, Chief Medical Officer...
WHIO: Improving Health Care in Wisconsin with Award-Worthy Work
The WHIO received a Health Transformation Award from The Alliance on October 1, 2020 for significantly improving transparency and high-value health care in Wisconsin. The Alliance created a case study that captures WHIO’s award-worthy work. This blog article is a...
How to Save Your Employees 50% on Primary Care Costs
Tena Hoag received a Health Transformation Award from The Alliance on October 1, 2020 for significantly improving her employees’ access to high-value health care and transforming the way health care is delivered. The Alliance created a case study capturing Tena’s...
Recap: Health Policy Webinar by The Alliance
The Alliance believes it’s important for employers to stay up-to-date on health policy legislation – especially during an election year. And because health policy can be complicated, we invited experts from the American Benefits Council to give our members a...
2020 Fall Symposium & Annual Meeting Recap
The Alliance hosted their 30th Fall Symposium & Annual Meeting on Thursday, Oct. 1 as on online event. This article recaps the keynote speakers in the latter half of the event, but you can re-watch the event in its entirety here. Employers...