Coffee with Christian

Open enrollment is typically a confusing, stressful time for BOTH the employer and the employee. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Use these 3 tips to make your next open enrollment more efficient, educational, and effective 🕙 To learn more about how Ben X can help you control healthcare spend and streamline your employee benefits process, visit benxconsulting.com or each out to me personally at christian@benxconsulting....

What is virtual primary care? Isn’t it the same as telemedicine? NOPE 🙅🏻‍♂️ Virtual primary care is a form of primary care that uses technology to give patients “face time” with their primary care provider.  This gives members/employees the continuity of care needed to improve the patient experience. (Because they’re seeing the same provider instead of multiple different ones) About 40% of large...

Are HSAs a good fit for my company? Should my company offer HSA type plans?  The answer - IT DEPENDS  It certain situations, HSAs are good fits for certain employees (as long as the education and communication is CORRECT) 🙂 In other situations, HSAs are a financial burden. 🫤 Because HSAs have to be paired with a HDHP (high deductible health plan), employees could potentially be left “high and dr...

Want a less stressful/more proactive open enrollment next year?  Introducing the POST renewal call ☎️ To learn more about how Ben X can help you control healthcare spend and streamline your employee benefits process, visit benxconsulting.com or each out to me personally at christian@benxconsulting.com

Do you want your employees to go to high QUALITY doctors, specialists, hospitals, etc?  Would you want to see a surgeon with a 92% quality score or a 26%? 👀 New programs and technologies allow us to “look under the hood” and see the caliber of healthcare your employees are receiving 🏥 Listen for the 3rd question you should ask your benefits broker in the next meeting! To learn more about how Ben...

Is Open Enrollment typically a stressful time for you?  If you’re like most employers, the answer is ABSOLUTELY. 🤦🏻‍♂️ So, here’s a question to ask your benefits broker to help change the narrative. To learn more about how Ben X can help you control healthcare spend and streamline your employee benefits process, visit benxconsulting.com or each out to me personally at christian@benxconsulting.co...

Today kicks off a short, 3 part series titled “Questions you need to ask your benefits broker in your next meeting” To learn more about how Ben X can help you control healthcare spend and streamline your employee benefits process, visit benxconsulting.com or each out to me personally at christian@benxconsulting.com

As an employer, do you understand the CONS of your employee benefit decisions?  Or the CONS of not taking action? 👀 Next time you change networks, implement a new funding strategy, add new benefits, etc., make sure to assess the cons as well as the pros ➕ To learn more about how Ben X can help you control healthcare spend and streamline your employee benefits process, visit benxconsulting.com or...

Today’s episode is about INCREMENTAL change.  1-2 positive changes each year to your employee benefits program makes a huge difference over 3-5 years 🤝 To learn more about how Ben X can help you control healthcare spend and streamline your employee benefits process, visit benxconsulting.com or each out to me personally at christian@benxconsulting.com

Wanted to take a moment to say THANK YOU for all the support in the last 50 episodes. It’s hard to believe it’s been this many.  My goal with these videos has always been to simplify health insurance/employee benefits and help employers realize there are BETTER ways/options to lower cost and allow employees to access higher quality healthcare ⛑️ Today’s video talks about WHY it’s so important to h...

If you’re an employer with over 100 employees, what are you proactively doing to reduce health insurance costs WHILE ensuring your employee see high QUALITY providers? (Hint, shopping “carriers” is not a strategy) Here is one actual strategy. To learn more about how Ben X can help you control healthcare spend and streamline your employee benefits process, visit benxconsulting.com or each out to me...

Todays episode is a CHALLENGE for employers of all sizes 👀 To learn more about how Ben X can help you control healthcare spend and streamline your employee benefits process, visit benxconsulting.com or each out to me personally at christian@benxconsulting.com

The median launch price of a new drug in 2021 was $180,000 😳 Here’s 2 tips on how to manage that cost for your employees and organization 💊 To learn more about how Ben X can help you control healthcare spend and streamline your employee benefits process, visit benxconsulting.com or each out to me personally at christian@benxconsulting.com

Curious about how to create an EFFECTIVE employee benefits survey? 📝 Listen to this episode for 3 quick tips To learn more about how Ben X can help you control healthcare spend and streamline your employee benefits process, visit benxconsulting.com or each out to me personally at christian@benxconsulting.com

⏰⏰ If you're a large employer & self funded, this episode is for YOU Today we're talking about network discounts 👀 and something MOST employers get wrong. To learn more about how Ben X can help you control healthcare spend and streamline your employee benefits process, visit benxconsulting.com or each out to me personally at christian@benxconsulting.com

Today's episode is about Voluntary Benefits 🦷👁 Tip of the Week - Invest heavily into the top 2-3 benefits your employee population wants/needs the MOST & then supplement the benefit package with voluntary (employee paid) benefits To learn more about how Ben X can help you control healthcare spend and streamline your employee benefits process, visit benxconsulting.com or each out to me personally...

Today's episode is about a new model called Direct Primary Care 👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️ Find out below if you should take a look at this new employee benefit 👀 To learn more about how Ben X can help you control healthcare spend and streamline your employee benefits process, visit benxconsulting.com or each out to me personally at christian@benxconsulting.com

This week’s message is about the need for behavior change in employers and employees when it comes to healthcare & health insurance 🏥⛑️ To learn more about how Ben X can help you control healthcare spend and streamline your employee benefits process, visit benxconsulting.com or each out to me personally at christian@benxconsulting.com

This week I have one message for employers of ALL sizes 👀 Employers in 2023 have more options than ever when it comes to controlling risk and impacting employees 🧍‍♀️🧍 To learn more about how Ben X can help you control healthcare spend and streamline your employee benefits process, visit benxconsulting.com or each out to me personally at christian@benxconsulting.com

This video talks all about fee & commission transparency within the benefit industry 👀 As of Janauary 1, 2022, benefit brokers/consultants are required to disclose ALL of their commission/fees. 💵 To learn more about how Ben X can help you control healthcare spend and streamline your employee benefits process, visit benxconsulting.com or each out to me personally at christian@benxconsulting.com

This episode is only 1 minute long but it’s something ALL employers should realize. To learn more about how Ben X can help you control healthcare spend and streamline your employee benefits process, visit benxconsulting.com or each out to me personally at christian@benxconsulting.com

This episode is all about becoming PROACTIVE with your employee benefits process.  “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results” - Christian Mosier  (Actually Albert Einstein said that, but we can all pretend) To learn more about how Ben X can help you control healthcare spend and streamline your employee benefits process, visit benxconsulting.com or each out to...

Today we’re talking about the INVERSE relationship between cost and quality in healthcare 🥼🩺 If you’re an employer, are you looking into data to determine the best quality and value providers/facilities for your employees? To learn more about how Ben X can help you control healthcare spend and streamline your employee benefits process, visit benxconsulting.com or each out to me personally at chr...

Today we’re talking about something that doesn’t get talked about enough 👀 Patient/Employee Advocacy  While cost plays an important factor in health insurance, we must take the member/employee experience into consideration. Are we guiding employees to high value high quality providers? Are we eliminating financial burdens for employees or creating them? To learn more about how Ben X can help you...

If you’re a CEO, CFO, HR Director, or Entrepreneur, and you only listen to 1 of my videos, listen to this one 👇🏼👇🏼 Today we’re talking about the BEST time (typically) to “shop” your company’s health insurance or switch to a self funded/level funded program.  To learn more about how Ben X can help you control healthcare spend and streamline your employee benefits process, visit benxconsulting.c...