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Benefits Innovation

The 3 Barriers to Transforming Healthcare

Learn why healthcare struggles to seamlessly integrate modern technology and how Collective Health can help.

Corporate Wellness

The COVID-19 Vaccine: What Companies Need to Know

Watch the recap from our comprehensive webinar discussion around planning for and implementing vaccination strategies.

Benefits Administration How are benefits teams reducing member questions and simplifying their day-to-day?

Corporate Wellness

UPDATED: What to know about COVID-19: coverage, testing, and vaccinations

A collection of resources to help the Collective Health community navigate the uncertainty and complexity of the ongoing pandemic

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Collective News

Collective Compass expands claims analytics with new clinical categories and deeper insights

Enhancements to claims analytics in Collective Compass make it easier to understand performance, gather digestible insights, and manage and refine health benefits strategies.

Collective News

Collective Health is building a better working world.

From employee happiness to health benefits innovation in design, we’re rethinking what’s possible.

The Breakdown: Understanding how geographic differences—and social determinants—impact health outcomes

Dr. Sanjay Basu breaks down his new JAMA study analyzing how geographic differences and social determinants of health impact long term health outcomes.

Benefits Innovation

Care Navigation: Combining technology and the human touch to support complex health needs

A breakdown of Collective Health’s care management program, and a case study examining early results

Open Enrollment

5 reasons everything is different this year with Open Enrollment (but why some things never change)

Open Enrollment insights from our customers gathered in the wake of a pandemic

The Breakdown: What does the data say about behavioral health programs?

Dr. Sanjay Basu breaks down what scientific evidence says about behavioral health programs—what works and what doesn't.

Collective News

Collective Health launches Guide PPO, a health plan design that makes smarter care decisions simple

Our simplified, value-based medical plan design makes it easy for members to get the most out of their care—and controls costs for employers.

Benefits Innovation

How to create vendor harmony and ensure total partner collaboration

Marianne Holt reflects on the importance of strategic partners, and how benefits leaders can build a collaborative ecosystem.

Collective News

Driving Better Outcomes with Stronger Personalization

A closer look at Collective Health’s approach to personalization, and the early programs launched to support members in navigating their healthcare.

Collective Perspective

Pinterest + Collective Health: Driving a better benefits experience

When Pinterest’s benefits team found their employees weren’t engaging with their benefits, they looked to Collective to turn things around.

Collective News

Collective Health enhances employer suite with expanded healthcare claims analytics

We’re bringing even more support for benefits leaders with our new claims analytics tools, designed to empower teams to craft and evaluate their benefits strategy.

The Breakdown: The impact of COVID-19 on primary care

Dr. Sanjay Basu breaks down his new Harvard Medical School study analyzing COVID-19’s impact on primary care

Benefits Innovation

Beyond Together: 3 ways to support employees' family-forming needs post-pandemic

Beyond Together: A series featuring insights from the Collective Health community including industry experts and trusted partners across healthcare and benefits.

Collective News

Takeaways from Together: Days 3 and 4

With expert perspectives from Dr Mark McClellan and Kaye Foster, and discussions with Box, Netflix, and others, here are the highlights from the final two days of Together

Collective News

Takeaways from Together: Days 1 and 2

From our opening keynote with Jeff Huber to discussions with Zoom, Lyft, and others, here are the highlights from the first days of Together with Collective Health.

Benefits Innovation

Accelerating virtual care in a time of uncertainty

Collective Health launches COVID-19 Virtual Care program to ease access to telemedicine, behavioral health, family benefits, and more.

Benefits Innovation

5 conversations every consultant should be having with their clients right now

Take the lead on important conversations now. Just when your clients need you the most.

Corporate Wellness

Collective Health Introduces COVID-19 Risk Assessment

Free, streamlined tool developed by medical experts to bring people fast results and additional guidance from trusted resources

Collective Perspective

Box chooses Collective Health to empower better health benefits

“Just okay was just not enough," why Box chose Collective Health

Collective News

A new look for Collective Health’s employer reporting & analytics suite

We've just launched the most significant redesign of our employer reporting product since its initial launch in 2015.

Benefits Innovation

How to plant your flag as a strategic benefits leader

Marianne Holt shares her vision for moving your team past the day-to-day operational grind to do strategy-defining benefits work

Benefits Administration

How to protect your workforce from the unexpected

Workplace emergencies are (thankfully) uncommon. Still, preparation is critical.

The Collective Experience

What your employees love about Collective Health

A little thank you to our Collective Health clients (from us and their people).

Health Plan Design

Why smart employees make poor benefits decisions—and what to do about it

Even the smartest employees can struggle.

Machine learning in healthcare

Machine learning is everywhere—but what does it mean when it comes to healthcare? Dr. Sanjay Basu breaks it down for you.

Open Enrollment

Think like a marketer: How to deliver a great OE experience

You planned ahead for a great Open Enrollment. Now, it’s time to deliver.

Collective News

Hello, Utah! Our new Customer Experience Center is open in Lehi

We have officially opened the doors at our newest office in Lehi, Utah.

Collective News

A warm welcome to Haleigh Tebben & Marianne Holt

Evolving healthcare is a team sport. We're thrilled to have 2 remarkable new leaders join us.

Open Enrollment

Think like a marketer: How to target your Open Enrollment campaign

Make sure your OE materials are landing with the right audiences.

Benefits Administration

3 Strategies to tip health benefit cost trend downward

These strategies will help employers to manage total healthcare costs—not just move it around.

Open Enrollment

Think like a marketer: How to plan for this year's Open Enrollment

Make this year's OE the most engaging yet with these tried-and-true marketing tips.

Collective Perspective

5 Things a CEO needs to know about Collective Health

Here are the 5 things CEOs need to know about partnering with Collective Health to take control of their health benefits investment

How employers should tackle opioid addiction

The majority of employers feel the impact of the opioid epidemic, but most aren't sure what to do. Dr. Sanjay Basu shares his thoughts.

Collective Perspective

5 Things a CFO needs to know about Collective Health

Thinking of partnering with Collective Health on your health benefits? Here's what your CFO needs to know.

Collective Perspective

5 Things a CHRO needs to know about Collective Health

Here's what your CHRO needs to know about partnering with Collective Health to transform your organization's benefits experience.

Collective News

Takeaways from Day 2 of Collective Create

From Jonathan Van Ness to Sally Welborn, check out highlights from day 2 of Collective Create.

Collective News

Takeaways from Day 1 of Collective Create

From a fireside chat with Laszlo Bock and Jeff Immelt to the welcoming keynote from our founders, here are the highlights from day one of Collective Create.

Collective News

Fueling the next phase of our growth: What’s next at Collective Health

Benefits Innovation

What to expect at Collective Create

Bold HR and benefits leaders are coming to Collective Create June 18 and 19. Here's what to expect.

Benefits Innovation

Checklist: Is it time to change up your health benefits?

Is it time to change up your health benefits? Use this checklist to find out.

Behavioral Health

Getting started on a successful behavioral health strategy

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

Behavioral Health

Making your behavioral health program work for everyone

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

Collective News

Breaking down silos in healthcare analytics

We’re excited to welcome Dr. Sanjay Basu to help guide Collective Health into our next phase in research and analytics.

Benefits Innovation

4 ideas for supercharging your benefits

From new technology to innovative care solutions, smart companies are exploring new ways to break down barriers to health benefits.

Benefits Administration

The 5 questions you need on every RFP

Health benefits are complicated, but your RFP shouldn't be. Ask these 5 questions to unlock the right insights.

Collective Perspective

Triple aim: A familiar concept, a new approach

How Collective Health balances experience, costs, and outcomes

Collective News

2018 Year in Review

In 2013, we set out to make it effortless for people to understand, navigate, and pay for their healthcare. Five years in, we’re successfully challenging the status quo

HBR Report: The Role of the C-suite in Employee Healthcare

New study shows that top executives are leaning into their healthcare investment

Open Enrollment

Last-Minute OE

Here’s what you can do for a strong end to Open Enrollment. OE tip number twelve.

Open Enrollment

High-cost claimants during OE

Plan ahead for your high-use population: OE tip number 11.

The Collective Experience

Jazz Pharmaceuticals’ Open Enrollment Experience

Watch highlights from our latest Open Enrollment event, complete with gelato and puppies. (Yes, puppies.)

Open Enrollment

How to reach seasonal, manufacturing, or shift workers

Here’s how to talk to hard-to-reach employees: OE tip number ten

Collective Perspective

How to talk to your CEO about your healthcare investment

Kaye Foster, former CHRO at Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer, discusses how to engage CEOs in the urgent conversation about their healthcare business.

Open Enrollment

How to Keep OE Top-of-Mind

Three ways to make Open Enrollment impossible to forget...all month long. OE tip number eight.

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.

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

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.

Open Enrollment

How to Drive Earlier Enrollment

OE tip number seven: Four ways to get employees to enroll earlier...

Collective Perspective

Watch Dr. Rajaie Batniji on Intelligence Squared

Collective Health’s co-founder and Chief Health Officer argues on behalf of employers and retailers on the live debate program

Open Enrollment

How to Reach More Employees This OE

4 places to put OE messages to get them noticed. OE tip number six

Collective Perspective

CEOs Must Become Smarter Consumers of Healthcare… And They Can

A perspective from Jeff Immelt, former Chairman and CEO of GE

Open Enrollment

Provide these kinds of OE updates

How to discuss how OE is performing—while it’s still in progress. OE tip number nine.

Open Enrollment

Upgrade Your OE Calendar

OE Tip number four: Make sure to adjust your OE schedule for this year by...

Open Enrollment

OE Communications That Work

3 ways to craft effective OE messages. OE tip number 5

Open Enrollment

Your OE Goal Template

Use this structure to align your team around OE goals and measurement: OE tip number three

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment in the context of company goals

8 questions to ask to put Open Enrollment in context for leadership: OE tip number two

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment Prep: Start Here

Open Enrollment tip number one: Your checklist for OE pre-planning

Collective Perspective

An Open Enrollment unlike any other

Sarahjane Sacchetti, SVP of Marketing at Collective Health, discusses what an award-winning Open Enrollment program means to our customers and members

The Collective Experience

How we reduced the innovation tax by 98%

At Collective Health, we believe that manual error checking and time-consuming integrations shouldn’t be accepted in this day and age.

Bending the healthcare cost curve.

New report shows that our platform approach is engaging members in the right care, reducing administrative errors, and reversing year-over-year medical costs.

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

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

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

Collective Perspective

Reflections on the Inaugural HLTH Conference

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

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.

Collective News

Bridging the digital health ecosystem

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

Corporate Wellness

Modern Management Hurts (literally)

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

Collective Perspective

American employers are in the healthcare business

In his manifesto, CEO Ali Diab explains the rise of the Employer-Driven Healthcare Economy and the new tools and technology employers are using to maximize their investment.

Collective Perspective

How benefits, finance pros should align to manage health costs

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

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.

Collective News

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.

Things we learned from the fire

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

Collective News

Not just another health app

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

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.

Benefits Innovation

The Doctor Is In on Innovation

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

Benefits Innovation

Healthcare has a technology problem

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

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.

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.

Collective News

Announcing CareX™

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

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.

Beyond maternity: helping families grow through adoption

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The present and future of parental leave

Parental leave can be a controversial benefit category for employers.

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.

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.

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.

Spotlight Series

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

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

Open Enrollment

Making sense of spending accounts

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

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.

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.

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.

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!).

Spotlight Series

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

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

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.

Health Plan Design

4 myths of health plan design

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

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?

Spotlight Series

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

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

Benefits Administration

Health Plans: The Simpler, The Better

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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?

Spotlight Series

Partner Spotlight: Paris Wallace - CEO, Ovuline

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

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.

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.

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.

Maternity: What to expect whenthey’re expecting

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

Consumer Health Benefits Survey 2015

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