Healthcare is one of your largest costs and your least controlled. This conversation covers the forces behind runaway spend, why most plans can't see where the money goes, and what it takes to finally take control.
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The Hidden Market Failure Driving Up Your Healthcare Costs
Self-insured healthcare costs climbing 8%+ a year isn't bad luck. It's a market that was never built to be shopped, and a structural gap most employers don't realize they have: without a procurement lens, no one is actively directing where care dollars go. This paper breaks down why the cost keeps rising and the procurement discipline that puts control back where it belongs.
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State of the Healthcare Industry: Why Employers Can't See What They're Actually Buying
Healthcare spend doesn't work like every other expense: employers pay first and only find out what they bought after the money's gone. A quick look at the price variation, blind spots, and waste hiding in plan costs today.
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The Health Plan Blind Spot: Who is Watching Your Spend Podcast
Self-insured healthcare costs are among the largest and least visible expenses employers carry, and price variance is a major driver. For self-insured employers, the same procedure can cost wildly different amounts from one in-network provider to the next, with no difference in quality, and because these employers pay claims directly, that variance lands straight on their bottom line. In this episode, Dave Magnan of Andovia explains how self-insured healthcare costs got this opaque, why price variance stays hidden from the employers actually paying for it, and the practical ways to see it, control it, and reduce spend.