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The way businesses buy healthcare is changing. Receive our latest insights, perspectives, research and more for forward-thinking brokers and employers.

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How to Be a Driver of Health Plan Change: The Broker’s Affordability Playbook

Get five proven strategies to help guide clients toward more affordable health plan solutions and break free from the status-quo.

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The HR Leader’s Health Plan Affordability Playbook: How to Be an Agent of Change

Get a step-by-step process for HR leaders to advocate for more affordable health plan solutions that actually work for employees, and the bottom line.

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Pharmacy Transparency and Cost Containment Research

Pharmacy costs are a known concern, but what are HR and benefit leaders doing about it. We partnered with EBN on research to find out.

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Health Plan Economics: A Crash Course in Hospital Pricing & the Bottom Line

As premiums soar, employers are footing the bill, but why? Join industry experts Roslyn Murray and Chris Cigarran for a crash course on healthcare economics.

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Healthcare Affordability Decoded: Learnings From a Health Economics Researcher

What’s really pushing affordable healthcare out of reach – and what can be done about it? Get the exclusive Q&A with Brown University professor Roslyn Murray.

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Five Dynamics Impacting Healthcare Affordability

Healthcare is becoming increasingly unaffordable for both businesses and employees. Traditional cost-saving strategies are falling short—and it’s time to understand why.

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Level Funding 101: A Hybrid Health Plan Solution

This easy-to-follow guide defines level-funding, how it works and why it’s gaining traction as a smarter, more flexible approach to healthcare coverage.

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Restoring Health Plan Affordability

Find out why the math doesn’t work, traditional affordability levers failed and how to finally address the healthcare affordability crisis head on.

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Are You Ready for a New Kind of Health Plan?

Is your organization ready for an alternative health plan? Find out with a three-step assessment designed to help employers recognize the signs.

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The Case for Self-Funding: A Solution to Rising Healthcare Costs

Cassie Schlarb, VP of Risk and Analytics, helps employers find innovative healthcare solutions. Watch as she shares her firsthand experiences with Imagine360.

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A Health Plan that Advocates for American Families

Shayla and Andrew lead a busy life with two young boys, and their journey became more complex when both sons were diagnosed with medical conditions.

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Healthcare that Cares: Supporting You in Life’s Toughest Challenges

After a cancer diagnosis, Cheryl Whitlock’s personalized care allowed her to focus solely on recovery rather than the cost and complexity of healthcare.

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Supporting Members and HR Leaders in High-Cost Care

See how HR Manager Mattison Carter, broker Andy Jackson and Imagine360 secured a fair rate for an employees’ procedure – originally priced at $324,000.

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Righting the ship by transforming healthcare benefits

See how this HR innovator saved her company millions on healthcare and reinvested the funds into a new lifesaving onsite employee clinic.

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Taking the stress out of healthcare

Hear from Roy Crawford, ironworker foreman, as he shares his real-world experiences working with Imagine360 and the Hendry Marine self-insured health plan.

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Price protection at work

Watch how one call activated the Imagine360 support team to work directly with our member’s hospital and resolve Peter Yodzis’ balance bill concern.

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A tech company gets a healthcare upgrade

See what DOW Technologies did for employees with $1.5 million in healthcare savings after switching to a self-funded health plan with reference-based pricing.

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Using healthcare savings to recruit and retain nursing staff

Watch how Signature HealthCARE solved its hiring challenges and provided better benefits by rethinking healthcare and joining the RBP revolution.

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What Employers Should Be Asking Brokers About Alternative Health Plan Solutions

To maintain employee satisfaction, it is essential for leadership to frequently review benefits and ensure they offer affordable, logical and diverse options.

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Shoppable Health Care Transparency Is Lagging: How Employers Can Cut Costs Now

Imagine360 CEO, Jeff Bak, shared his thoughts with BenefitsPro about how employers can combat an impending jump in health insurance costs.

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Self-Funded Health Insurance: Points for Employers To Consider Before Switching

Talk to any business leader about healthcare benefits and you can bet they’re concerned about climbing costs — both for their business and their employees.

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Imagine360 recognized for improving employer-sponsored healthcare

Noted by two of the leading benefits publications for its impact reducing employer healthcare costs and improving health plan member experience.

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Imagine360 Saves 19.8% More Than Other Commercial Health Plans

Third-Party actuarial report compares three years of employer claims in five large metropolitans; shows Imagine360 achieves significantly lower healthcare costs.

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Ardent Health Services Selects Quantum Health and Imagine360

Provides 23,000 team members and dependents nationwide with a powerful alternative to high-cost managed care networks while delivering better member experience

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Collaboration between CFO and HR is key to cutting healthcare costs

Imagine360 CEO, Jeff Bak, was featured in an article for CFO Dive, where he spoke about the importance of collaboration between CFOs and HR leaders.

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Imagine360 Saves Chapman Auto 20% Over Traditional Health Insurance

Group reduces $3 million health-care tab to $2.4 million; passes savings to employees by moving from continually increasing deductibles to lowering them.

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Imagine360 Selected for BenefitsPRO’s 2023 LUMINARIES Awards

Awarded in category of “Education & Communication – Organizations” and recognized for transforming and humanizing the benefits industry.

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The Achilles heel of the restaurant industry: Retention.

There’s hope for restaurants that want to retain top talent. Chris Morocco shares three retention strategies in this article for Today’s Restaurant Magazine.

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See how the trucking industry is solving its hiring problem with healthcare.

Recruiting and retaining talent has been a challenge for the trucking industry all year, and it’s only amplified during the busy holiday season.

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Podcast: Imagine360 CEO discusses cost-containment trends

Hear real-life examples of how self-funded employers can contain costs today and the “crawl, walk, run” approach to getting control of healthcare plans.

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Assessment for Brokers: Evaluating Employer Readiness for Alternative Health Plans

Are your clients ready for an alternative health plan? Find out with a four-step assessment to help brokers and consultants identify the best candidates.

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Reference Based Pricing: Advancements in Member Experience

Today’s healthcare consumers often face a confusing and frustrating experience when navigating the healthcare system. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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How a Health Plan Shift Led to Better Care and Millions in Savings

Explore lessons learned for HR leaders and brokers on what makes change possible, how companies can navigate risk and why cost savings are only the beginning.

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Trend Report: 4 Forces Transforming the Broker’s Role in Employer Health Plans

A revolution is reshaping employer-funded healthcare. Find out why the opportunity has never been greater for brokers to strengthen their advisory roles.

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How Traditional Health Plan Carriers Are Quietly Draining the Bottom Line

Find out how forward-thinking businesses and brokers are using alternative health plans to control spending without shifting costs to employees.

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Trend Report: Explore 4 Forces Transforming Employer-Sponsored Healthcare

Are the solutions from traditional health plan carriers failing businesses and their workforces? Find out what’s driving employers to alternative models.

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Aon, Imagine360 & Reference Based Pricing

Market leaders Aon and Imagine360 partnered to help two clients reduce their plan spend by 25%. Find out the secret for a successful RBP rollout.

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Assessment of Value for Imagine360’s Integrated Health Plan

Independent analysis of Imagine360 plan performance found a 19.8% reduction in costs compared to other commercial health plans. Get the full report for more.

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We interviewed ~100 executives – they had a lot to say about their brokers.

Imagine360 and BenefitsPRO survey shows a consensus that most brokers have established solid connections with executives in the C-suite. But it’s not all roses.

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