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Podcast: Why Your ER Spend is Out of Control
We were very pleased to be featured in the employee health services sector's most popular and engaging podcast, Relentless Health Value.
Mar 72 min read

How the FDA lets food companies "poison" our kids
What you are about to read may unsettle you, especially if you are a parent of a child who has consumed these things. (Which is to say,...
Dec 3, 20244 min read

Ignore the New Negative Findings on Weight Loss Drugs
The newest findings reveal that there is not even a slight offset in reduced healthcare expense from weight loss drugs during the first...
Nov 7, 20245 min read


Six Things Employees Should Know about Antibiotics
Find this information useful? The only way your employees can easily access information like this, in our engaging Q&A format, is via...
Oct 10, 20246 min read


The Glide Path to Controlling your GLP spend
We’ve been pitching employee education on weight loss drugs all year. Obviously we’re enjoying some success, or we wouldn’t keep doing...
Oct 1, 20243 min read

How to Dissuade the GLP-Curious and Educate the GLP-Serious
Dissuade the GLP-curious and educate the GLP-serious. Say that three times fast, because that’s the key to affordable coverage of weight...
Sep 16, 20245 min read

Does Covering Weight-Loss Drugs Expose You to ERISA Liability?
One would expect that employees could sue you for not covering weight-loss drugs but that scenario is very unlikely in an ERISA plan. It...
Jul 11, 20242 min read


Wall Street weighs in on weight-loss drugs
In case you missed it, here is the latest from the we-know-more-than-you-do investor newsletter crowd , with our comments indented. "Read...
Jul 8, 20242 min read

6 Steps to Control the Use of Weight Loss Drugs
Never before in the history of healthcare has anything – any drug, procedure, test, anything – combined asmuch effectiveness, popularity...
Jun 27, 20245 min read

Six Reasons to Add Health Education to Your Employee Benefits
Would you give every employee an unlimited budget to spend however they like? No. of course not. But isn't that exactly what you do with...
Jun 25, 20246 min read

The 5 Best Ways to Waste Money in Healthcare
Yikes! The most careful analysis ever, done for Washington state, reveals that 38% of all heatlhcare spending is wasted. And that...
Jun 4, 20245 min read

The Top 20 Easiest Ways to Change Employee Health Behavior (Part 1)
This is the first in a three-part series Quizzify changes behavior through knowledge, not willpower. The actual changes below are quite...
Mar 25, 20245 min read
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