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Health Plan Design

Plan Design Ideas: Tackling cost-sharing complexity and specialty care

Weigh the pros and cons of the latest approaches to health plan design
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Health Plan Design

Plan Design Ideas: How to save members from surprise bills

Weigh the pros and cons of the latest approaches to health plan design
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Free Report The Growing Divide in Employer-Sponsored Health Benefits
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Collective Perspective

How concierge services and digital tools are bringing down the cost of healthcare

A perspective from Collective Health’s Chief Actuary, Ed Cymerys, FSA, MAAA
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ATTN CEO No matter what business you run, you're running a healthcare business.
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Corporate Wellness

Experts say workplace health starts at the C-Suite

Here our four takeaways from our fireside chat featuring Pinterest, DaVita, and Professor Jeff Pfeffer
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Collective Perspective

Reflections on the Inaugural HLTH Conference

Digital health solutions, engagement, and Amazon/Berkshire Hathaway/JP Morgan speculation took center stage
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Collective Perspective

5 questions to ask when considering an accountable care strategy

An employer checklist to understand, navigate and build a plan for value-based care.
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Collective News

Bridging the digital health ecosystem

Collective Health drives a 2-4X increase in employee engagement in relevant partner programs
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Collective Perspective

A CFO’s Take: Maximizing the Value of your Healthcare Investment

Watch Collective Health CFO Ken Hahn’s take on Employer-Sponsored Healthcare
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Collective Perspective

How benefits, finance pros should align to manage health costs

Medical trend, operational efficiency, and employee productivity are key metrics.
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Corporate Wellness

Modern Management Hurts (literally)

Jeff Pfeffer’s new book examines the effects of modern management—and what we can do about it.
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Collective Perspective

A Chief People Officer’s Take: Tackling Employee Healthcare

Watch our very own Jude Komuves discuss why she’s committed to solving the number one pain point facing CHROs today.
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Collective News

CEO Ali Diab on air with Bloomberg

Healthcare is one of the most urgent problems facing American employers today––and the Fortune 50 agrees.
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Collective News

No more trade-offs

Third-party analysis shows how we kept medical trend flat across our book of business while delivering the industry’s highest-rated member experience.
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2017 in Review

It’s hard to believe 2017 is already coming to an end! It was another year of rapid growth for Collective Health.
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Data

Things we learned from the fire

Using data to mitigate air pollution’s impact on our members’ health
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Collective News

Not just another health app

User-centered design drives mobile adoption that’s 4X the industry average
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Data

What data science taught us about maternity

We’re using advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI to solve the most interesting issues in healthcare and health benefits.
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Benefits Innovation

The Doctor Is In on Innovation

Our very own Dr. Andy Halpert talks about taking back the healthcare delivery system.
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Benefits Innovation

Healthcare has a technology problem

It’s about time we completely rethink and rebuild how health insurance works.
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Benefits Innovation

Re-thinking the rules of engagement

Traditional engagement tools just don’t work. That’s why we’re doing things differently at Collective Health.
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Collective News

Can Employers Cure a Broken Healthcare Experience?

Watch Dr. Rajaie Batniji's 2016 TEDMED talk on how employers can cure the broken healthcare experience.
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Collective News

Announcing CareX™

Healthcare at its best is a team sport—CareX can be the foundation for that team
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Benefits Decoded

An Interview with Joaquin Gamboa at Zocdoc

Joaquin Gamboa shares how he uses proactive education to ensure his people are aware of the benefits available to them.
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Maternity

Beyond maternity: helping families grow through adoption

Adoption benefits add meaningful value, even if only a small percent make use of them.
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Maternity

Best way to support pregnant employees? Don’t jump to conclusions.

It’s important to understand and support your people during this important life transition.
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Benefits Decoded

An interview with Kimberly Bringas at Olark Live Chat

Kimberly Bringas shares how she tailored her benefits program to reflect her company’s values.
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Data

What benefits do your people value most?

In a 2016 survey conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of Collective Health, we discovered Americans want paid parental leave and more.
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Maternity

Back to work: how to support working parents

Create a supportive benefits package that will let your people know you want them to succeed in both roles.
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Benefits Administration

Preparing for a network change

The transition to a new network can be challenging and confusing—for your people and your benefits team.
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Benefits Decoded

An Interview with Cathy Donahoe at Domo

Cathy Donahoe shares how she tailored her progressive benefits program to be a true reflection of the needs of her employees.
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Maternity

The present and future of parental leave

Parental leave can be a controversial benefit category for employers.
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Maternity

Why consider a fertility program?

It's complicated to support your people when they’re expecting—it can be more complex when things aren't going as planned.
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Spotlight Series

5 Minutes With: Mohamad Makhzoumi, NEA

Mohamad's team at NEA is focused on improving quality, increasing access, and reducing costs in healthcare.
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Open Enrollment

Cut through the healthcare jargon during Open Enrollment

We know that one of the biggest hurdles every year is helping your people understand how their health plan works.
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Open Enrollment

Marketing rules you can use for Open Enrollment

Get your people engaged this Open Enrollment season.
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Spotlight Series

5 Minutes With: Brian Marcotte, President & CEO, NBGH

NBGH works to address the most relevant healthcare issues facing employers today.
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Open Enrollment

Making sense of spending accounts

Are you encouraging your people to take advantage of an FSA or an HSA?
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The Collective Experience

Making the Member Experience Matter

The Collective Health member experience is designed to help members have a direct and trusted relationship with their health plan.
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Spotlight Series

5 Minutes With: Pam Baker, VP of Commercial Operations, Omada Health

Omada's mission is to inspire and enable people to live life free of chronic disease.
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Open Enrollment

An exciting Open Enrollment. It’s possible.

We’re starting to think about all things fall: back-to-school sales, movie blockbusters, and of course, Open Enrollment.
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Spotlight Series

5 Minutes With: Ed Lehman, Grand Rounds

Grand Rounds is making sure that everybody has access to high-quality care, regardless of where they live or work.
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Open Enrollment

4 ways to turn Open Enrollment into open engagement

Improve your company’s Open Enrollment experience.
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Benefits Administration

5 Steps to a Successful Benefits Strategy

We’ve pulled together our top five tips for making a big impact in 2017 (and beyond!).
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Spotlight Series

5 Minutes With: Dave Chase—Author, Entrepreneur, and Healthcare Advocate

Dave Chase is an author, entrepreneur, healthcare advocate, & contributor to Forbes.
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Health Plan Design

The benefits of smart health plan design

Making smarter health plan design choices can help your people understand their benefits better and use them more effectively.
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Health Plan Design

4 myths of health plan design

Could you be building your health plans on some of these foundational misconceptions?
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Health Plan Design

Time to redesign your health plans

Is it time to redesign your health plans—and more importantly, your health plan creation process?
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Spotlight Series

5 minutes with: Dr. Jennifer Schneider, Chief Medical Officer, Livongo

Livongo empowers people with chronic conditions to live a better life.
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Benefits Administration

Health Plans: The Simpler, The Better

Health plans don’t have to be complicated. In fact, complexity is often counterproductive.
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Benefits Administration

When plan changes get lost in translation

To assist you in maintaining the integrity of your health plans throughout the design process, here are our three key recommendations for benefits teams.
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Health Plan Design

Why smart employees don’t make smart benefits choices

Research shows that even the smartest people struggle to select the right health benefits for themselves and their families.
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Benefits Administration

You have the power to change healthcare. Data can help.

Companies need not just big data, but timely healthcare data that can lead to actionable insights.
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Behavioral Health

A conversation on behavioral health issues and benefits

As behavioral health grows top of mind for benefits leaders, we decided it was time to join the conversation.
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Behavioral Health

Managing complex family conditions

As a benefits leader, you not only care for your own people, but for your people’s families as well.
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Behavioral Health

Unlocking your current behavioral health programs

Make sure your people know about the existing behavioral health programs available to them.
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Spotlight Series

5 minutes with: Mike Civello, VP of Employee Benefits, Rethink

Rethink works with companies to better serve the needs of employees’ children with autism and other developmental disabilities.
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Behavioral Health

Creating a behavioral health program that works. For everyone.

How to make a data-driven decision about your behavioral health benefits strategy.
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Behavioral Health

First step to a successful behavioral health strategy? Cast a wide net.

Take the first step in creating a supportive, comprehensive plan.
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Spotlight Series

5 minutes with: Lena Cheng, MD – VP of Medical Affairs, Doctor On Demand

This month, we sat down with Lena Cheng, VP of Medical Affairs at Doctor On Demand.
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Benefits Administration

What shopping for jam reveals about your benefits strategy

How many health plan choices should you offer your people? In theory, more choice is a good thing, right?
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Benefits Administration

Eligibility management. There is a better way.

HR Systems can be an administrative nightmare. How can this must-have be saved from being a daily must-fix?
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Spotlight Series

Partner Spotlight: Paris Wallace - CEO, Ovuline

For this month’s Spotlight, we sat down with Paris Wallace, President and CEO of Ovuline.
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Data

Numbers to insights: Making sense of benefits data

When it comes to your health benefits strategy, data is everything. But data for data’s sake is like a map with no legend.
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Spotlight Series

Partner Spotlight: Anne Presson – Woodruff-Sawyer

We recently sat down with benefits leader, Anne Presson, VP, and Director of Benefits Innovation at Woodruff-Sawyer.
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Maternity

Maternity: What to expect when they’re expecting

Need to create a maternity strategy that works for your people and reduces administrative headaches?
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Benefits Administration

Seven people and publications you should follow

When it comes to solid coverage on benefits and healthcare trends, it’s all about quality.
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Data

Consumer Health Benefits Survey 2015

75% of Americans say health benefits factor into their job choice. What else is on employees' minds?
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