If you’ve ever explored self-funded health plans, you may have heard of “captives”, but you might not fully understand how they function or what they do. To help shed some light on this topic, TCHP founder Mike Hill highlights the benefits and risks of a captive, as...

When looking at messaging and marketing coming from both healthcare providers and health insurance carriers, we see the term  “high-quality care” a lot. The problem with this phrase is that it doesn’t seem to mean the same thing across all providers, so determining...

Thanks to Sage Transparency, healthcare consumers and employers can compare hospital prices like never before. Pricing information is readily and easily available for an endless amount of products and services… but that’s not necessarily the case for healthcare. At...

It’s no secret that healthcare treatments are advancing like never before. Innovative technologies are yielding new medical treatments and potentially cures for a variety of illnesses, including cancers and hemophilias.  With these remarkable, potentially...

The health insurance industry standard is to host an open-enrollment meeting once per year, but we’ve seen firsthand that that isn’t enough. Knowledge is the foundation of employees engaging in their healthcare plan, and 20 minutes every 12 months doesn’t provide adequate time for true understanding.