by Gravie | Pod People
Health benefits can be a headache for both employers and employees, but it doesn't have to be that way. Gravie re-imagines employer-sponsored health benefits for small and midsize businesses, envisioning how self-funded plans can work for them and their employees. Through speaking with industry experts on subjects like medical debt and rising out-of-pocket costs, ICHRAs, and underwriting, Gravie Chief Brand Officer and host Jeff Smokler builds out a vision of a better health benefits plan. Because building health plans people love isn’t crazy. “It’s a Gravie Thing”. Gravie is a health benefits company, offering health plans that cover 100% of costs on most common healthcare services. We’re building a health plan everyone can love. www.gravie.com.
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July 11, 2024
The question of how to fund a health plan can be a tricky one for employers. Options have historically been limited, with the only choice being self-funding or fully-funding. And for small and mid-size businesses who couldn’t afford the fully-funded route, that meant they really had no choice at all. But all that’s changing with the advent of level funding, a variation of self-funded health plans in which the employer and insurer share the risk, limiting their financial responsibility through stop-loss coverage. To get more insight on the level-funded model, Gravie Chief Marketing Officer and host Jeff Smokler sat down with Ben Simmons, Gravie’s Chief Strategy Officer, and Maggi Gentle, Vice President of Human Resources at Lumos Pharma. The three discussed how its financial advantages – paired with an emphasis on more flexible plan designs – are changing the benefits game for smaller employers and their employees. Episode Chapters (00:00) Introduction (02:46) What exactly is level funding? (08:15) Is level funding too good to be true? (12:03) How does level funding impact your out-of-pocket max? (16:37) How business size matters for your funding model (19:49) Breaking down the barrier to entry through education (23:26) What industries and states is level funding best for? (26:47) Level funding makes room for plan design innovation (32:44) The future of level funding (37:00) Upcoming innovations from Gravie
June 13, 2024
Over the past few years, claims for musculoskeletal, or MSK, care have been fast on the rise, climbing up alongside prescription drug costs. But getting MSK care can be a headache in more ways than one. Trying to figure out what type of provider you need to see, keeping appointments straight, and figuring out copays all add to the burden of having a body in pain. Is there a different way forward? We think so. To chat about new innovations in the MSK space, Gravie Chief Marketing Officer and host Jeff Smokler sat down with Jessica Hennessey, Senior Vice President of Clinical Programs at Gravie, and Evelyn Chojnacki, Senior Director of Health Plan Product Strategy at Sword Health
May 16, 2024
For many, underwriting is the black box of the health benefits industry. For years, the calculations, data, and risk factors have been a mystery. But why should it stay that way? Gravie is pioneering a new way forward, called Surgical underwriting®. It’s a way for employers and brokers alike to get more insight, and more specificity, from the underwriting process. In this episode, Gravie Chief Marketing Officer and host Jeff Smokler is joined by one of the architects of surgical underwriting, Jay Sheehy. Jay is Gravie’s Chief Underwriting Officer, with years of industry experience under his belt. To give a look from the consumer side of things, Jalaa Miller, an account executive for employee benefits at IMA Financial Group, joins the show.
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