Coffee with Christian

<p>Every Friday, Christian sits down to discuss the latest trends and updates in the employee benefits world in 2 minutes or less.</p>

#059 - 3 Tips to Make Your Next Open Enrollment More Efficient, Educational, and Effective

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.com

09-08
02:42

#058 - Virtual Primary Care

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 employers will plan to offer or offer Virtual Primary Care in 2023 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

09-01
02:43

#057 - Are HSAs the Right Fit for Your Company?

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 dry” and delay medical care.  For more explanation, send me a message and we can chat.  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

08-31
02:46

#056 - The Post Renewal Call

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

08-31
01:49

#055 - High Quality Doctors, Specialists + Hospitals

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 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

08-31
01:45

#054 - How to Make Open Enrollment Less Stressful

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.com

08-31
01:59

#053 - Questions You Need to Ask Your Benefits Broker in Your Next Meeting

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

07-28
01:38

#052 - The Cons of Your Employee Benefit Decisions

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 each out to me personally at christian@benxconsulting.com

07-28
02:16

#051 - Improving Your Benefits Program Through Incremental Positive Change

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

07-28
01:42

#050 - Why It’s So Important to Have the Right Health Insurance/Programs for Your Company

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 have the right health insurance/programs for your company 🏥  Here’s to the next 50 more 🥂 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

07-28
02:33

#049 - How Employers With Over 100 Employees Can Save Money and Get Higher Quality Healthcare

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 personally at christian@benxconsulting.com

07-28
03:39

#048 - A Challenge for Employers of All Sizes

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

07-28
02:24

#047 - How to Manage Pharmaceutical Spend for Your Employees and Organization

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

07-28
03:27

#046 - How to Create an Effective Employee Benefits Survey

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

07-28
02:35

#045 - Network Discounts (And Something Most Employers Get Wrong)

⏰⏰ 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

07-28
02:18

#044 - Voluntary Benefits

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 at christian@benxconsulting.com

07-28
01:56

#043 - Direct Primary Care

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

07-28
01:59

#042 - The Need for Behavior Change When It Comes to Healthcare & Health Insurance

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

07-28
02:37

#041 - Employers Options When It Comes to Controlling Risk and Impacting Employees

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

07-28
01:41

#040 - Fee & Commission Transparency Within the Benefit Industry

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

07-28
02:12

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