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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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Auto Dealers: Take Control of Rising Health Insurance Costs

Rising health insurance costs are squeezing auto dealers. Learn how some are cutting spending, improving benefits and staying competitive.

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Unlocking the Triple-Aim Through Integrated Medical and Pharmacy Services

Unfortunately, the pursuit of the healthcare triple aim remains more pursuit than achievement. Annual growth in healthcare costs continues at a trend around 8%.

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The Oxymoron of Healthcare Costs? The More Money We Pay, the Worse It Gets.

Before joining Imagine360, Chris Schutt spent 30 years working as a broker, observing the evolution of the healthcare industry. Here are some of his insights.

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Survey Confirms: We Are Facing a Growing Affordability Crisis in Healthcare

Rising healthcare costs aren’t new. But with costs projected to increase at the highest rate in 13 years, are we finally at a point where we make a change.

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Six Important Questions Employers Need to Ask When Evaluating PBM Performance

Feel like you need a translator to understand your pharmacy costs? Jeff Bak, Imagine360’s CEO has six questions you should ask when evaluating your PBM.

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A New Yardstick for Brokers Emerges in Light of Recent Health Plan Litigation

Woody Waters takes a closer look at what the J&J and Kraft Heinz lawsuits really boil down to and what it could signal for employers, brokers and consultants.

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C-Suite Survey on Health Plan Broker Relationships & Cost-Containment Strategies

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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Why Employers Are Right to Feel “Offended” by Soaring Healthcare Spending

Think about your last major household purchase. Now think about how you came to your decision. Did you choose the first option you stumbled across?

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Find Out Why Auto Dealers Are Pumping the Brakes on Traditional Healthcare

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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Podcast Pt. 3: The Truth They Don’t Want You To Hear: Broken Healthcare

In the finale, Woody and Ray uncover why real healthcare reform will never come from Washington — and why business leaders must take control of their plans.

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Four Ways Employers Should Approach Health Plans Like Car Shopping

Picking a health plan shouldn’t feel like being handed only one pricey “luxury car”, with no option to choose a model that matches your needs and budget.

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Imagine360 Launches Complete Care – Saves Employers As Much As 30%

Complete Care includes Imagine360Rx, an integrated pharmacy benefit product powered by a licensed PBM.

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Unlocking the Triple-Aim Through Integrated Medical and Pharmacy Services

The pursuit of the healthcare triple aim remains more pursuit than achievement. Annual growth in healthcare costs continues at a trend around 8%.

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Survey Reveals More than a 1/3 in U.S. Skipped or Postponed Healthcare

An Imagine360 / Pollfish study reveals 38% skipped or postponed necessary healthcare or medications due to the cost

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Survey Confirms: We Are Facing a Growing Affordability Crisis in Healthcare

Rising healthcare costs aren’t new. But with costs projected to increase at the highest rate in 13 years, are we finally at a point where we make a change.

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The Oxymoron of Healthcare Costs? The More Money We Pay, the Worse It Gets.

Before joining Imagine360, Chris Schutt spent 30 years working as a broker, observing the evolution of the healthcare industry. Here are some of his insights.

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Analysis Shows Imagine360 Saved Rollins, Inc. Nearly 20%

Independent research by Axene Research Partners found Rollins, Inc. saved approximately $7.7 million annually—compared to traditional health plans.

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Imagine360 acquires 3rd-party Administrator HealthFirst

Employees deep understanding of health systems and state-of-the-art claims processing technology bolsters health system strategy.

Guides and tools

Broker Guide: Exploring the Next Generation of Reference-Based Pricing

New advancements in RBP have greatly improved health plan performance and client satisfaction levels. Find out how this proven strategy has evolved.

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Employer Guide: Five Key Tools to Add to Your Self-Funded Health Plan

Is your self-funded health plan evolving with the times? Here are five innovative tools to add to your benefits strategy.

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15 Years of Reference Based Pricing Guide

Since our inception, we’ve helped companies save more than $1 billion on healthcare with reference-based pricing. Learn more about this proven strategy.

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4 Eye-Opening Healthcare Stats and 1 Bright Spot

Healthcare costs are on the rise and employers have tough decisions to make. But there is some good news on the horizon to combat rising costs.

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Broker Guide: Five Essential Health Plan Tools to Add to Your Benefits Toolbox

Searching for new solutions to add to your upcoming client meetings? Stay on top of the latest benefits trends for new opportunities to add value.

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Auto Dealer Guide: Renegotiate Your Health Plan for a Competitive Advantage

Take control of healthcare costs by re-imagining how your health plan strategy works for organization and your workforce. Our guide shows you how.

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Senior Living Guide: Turning Your Health Plan Into a Recruiting Tool

Take control of your healthcare strategy and improve recruitment and retention of nurses and support staff. Our guide shows you how to make it happen.

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The Fundamentals of Self-Funded Insurance

See why self-funding is gaining traction for companies that want to take control of their health insurance strategy and save money in the process.

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RBP: A Transformative Strategy to Manage Healthcare Costs

Since our inception, we’ve helped companies save more than $1 billion on healthcare with reference-based pricing. Learn more about this proven strategy.

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