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• Small and Mid-Sized Businesses Can Benefit from Self-Funding


• Self-Funding Explained: Top 4 Benefits of Self-Insurance


• Improve Access to Healthcare and Increase Choice with a Broad Provider Network


• Leveraging Data Can Help Employers Manage Rising Healthcare Costs


• Employer-Provider Partnerships Can Transform Healthcare


• Who Can Self-Fund Successfully? Debunking 4 Self-Funding Misconceptions


• How to Keep Employees Engaged with Their Health Benefits After Open Enrollment


• Mental Health Parity: What Employers Need to Know for 2025


• The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act: What Employers Need to Know


• Navigating the Healthcare Services Industry: Enter 2024 Prepared


• Tailoring Benefit Programs to Meet Employee Needs


• The Alliance: Driving High-Value Healthcare for Employers and Their Employees


• Medical Debt is a $195 Billion Problem: Here’s How Employers Can Help


• Tailoring Benefit Programs to Meet Employee Needs


• Benefit Programs: The Right Partners Can Make all the Difference


• The Alliance: Driving High-Value Healthcare for Employers and Their Employees


• How Employers Can Encourage Healthcare Consumerism in 2023


• What is Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance?


• Are Out-of-Pocket Costs a Barrier to Care?


• How Employers Can Encourage Healthcare Consumerism


• 5 Ways Self-Funded Employers Can Change the Cost of Healthcare


• 5 Key Takeaways from RAND Corporation’s Hospital Price Transparency Study


• How Employers Can Improve Employee Engagement in Health Care


• How Employers Can Help Their Employees Avoid Balance Billing


• An Employer’s Guide to Fully Insured vs. Self Insured Health Plans


• How Employers Are Supporting Their Employees in Unprecedented Ways in 2022


• Employers Can Boost Their Mental Health Benefits and Save $44 Billion


• 4 Healthcare Trends Hurting Employers Heading Into 2022


• Advanced Primary Care: The Solution to Primary Care’s Problems


• How Employers Use High Value Heath Care to Control Costs


• How A Small Not-for-Profit Business Self-Funded its Health Benefits


• What is Self-Funding & How Can It Benefit My Business?


• $3.4 Trillion in Future Health Care Spend Rests with Millennials


• Emerging Price Transparency Trends in Health Care


• Employee Benefits Trends Being Shaped by the Pandemic


• Vaccination Management for Employers


• The Rights & Responsibilities of Plan Sponsors as Fiduciaries


• The Many Benefits of Hosting a Vendor Summit


• How One Employer’s Unique Health Clinic Offerings Saved $4 Million


• How to Save Your Employees 50% on Primary Care Costs


• What RAND Corporation’s Hospital Price Transparency Project (RAND 3.0) Means For Employers


• How to Control Costs & Improve Health Outcomes Using Payment Reform


• How to Design A Health Benefits Plan That Saves You Money


• How COVID-19 is Changing the Cost of Health Care


• Why a Shared-Site Clinic Can Help Reduce Your Health Spending


• How to Build a Better Health Plan Through Self-Funding


• Is Self-Funding Your Health Plan Right For You?


• Wisconsin Can Save $394 Million by Steering Patients to High-Value Health Care


• Provider Network Design: A Key Driver of High-Value Health Care


• Four Core Drivers of High-Value Health Care: Payment Reform


• Four Core Drivers of High-Value Health Care: Transparency


• How to Increase the Value of Employee Health Benefits Through Self-Funding


• Four Core Drivers Employers Can Use to Obtain High-Value Health Care


• 7 Best Practices for Better Self-Funded Health Benefits


• Why Prices are the Real Problem in Health Benefit Costs


• How to Use Disruption Reports to Compare and Contrast Provider Networks


• Picking the Right Provider Network for Your Employees


• Look Upstream for Solutions to Health Care Concerns


• What Health Care Bundles Mean for You


• How Employers Cooperate to Control Health Care Costs


• The U.S. Senate Wants to Hear from You about How to Lower Health Care Costs


• How to Support Caregivers to Make It All Work


• Three Innovations That Help Employers Get More Affordable Health Care


• Changing the Way Employees Get Health Care


• How to Spot Potential Broker Compensation Conflicts


• Stepping Up to Self-Funding


• Value-Based Insurance Design Focuses on Buying High-Value Health Care


• Why Well-Being and Self-Funding are Better Together


• Employers Band Together to Help ‘Fix’ Health Care


• ‘Disrupt’ Health Care to Get Better Value Care


• How Self-Funding Nurtures Better Health Care Consumers


• Hold a Vendor Summit to Get More Value from Health Benefit Partners


• How to Evaluate a Provider Network for Your Health Benefit Plan in Three Steps


• Thinking about self-funding? Start with these 10 questions


• Welcome The Alliance as a WI SHRM Partner

Company Description:  

The Alliance serves as the voice for self-funded employers who want more control over their healthcare costs. Using Smarter Networks and sophisticated data mining and analysis, they provide transparent, creative approaches to network and benefit plan design to unlock savings where others can’t – or won’t. The Alliance remains a trusted, objective partner for its 425+ employers and their brokers who seek improved access to high-quality healthcare by contracting with a network of 39,000 healthcare providers and doctors across the Midwest. 

To learn more about or work with The Alliance, please call 800.223.4139 or visit www.the-alliance.org.