Employee Benefits and the New Health Care Landscape

How Private Exchanges are Bringing Choice and Consumerism to America's Workforce

Alan Cohen author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pearson Education (US)

Published:23rd Oct '17

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2018 International Book Awards Finalist in "Business and Management" Category
We shop for everything else online…why not benefits?

Using private benefit exchanges (a.k.a. “online benefits marketplaces”), employers can bring a consumer-centric online shopping experience to benefits. Alan Cohen, a benefits technology pioneer, details how these platforms can offer unprecedented flexibility and choice to employees, revolutionize the way employers attract and retain talent, strengthen cost control in an era of skyrocketing premiums, and promote much-needed innovation in the U.S. health care system.

Discover How To

  • Make sense of today’s challenging benefits landscape and plan breakthrough changes that have succeeded for thousands of employers of all sizes
  • Leverage the lessons of the online shopping revolution to drive radical innovation
  • Incorporate the 7 key pillars of a true private benefits exchange into your benefits mindset
  • Gain indispensable practical insights from early adopters’ experiences
  • Clarify the new roles of employers, HR, insurers, brokers, employees, and other stakeholders
  • Accelerate your transition away from inefficient employer-managed plans
  • Assess the ongoing impact of health care reform, public exchanges, health care consumerism, and other trends

Alan Cohen created one of the first private exchange platforms and has pioneered this approach for more than a decade. Now, in a candid discussion of how the economic principles of choice, consumerism, and defined contribution are at work in an exchange environment, he breaks down the concept for HR professionals, entrepreneurs, brokers, insurers, health care reformers, policy makers, and employees. Cohen looks to social and economic implications to forge a future in which all eyes are on a new model of the consumer for the benefits age.

With insights from industry veterans, Employee Benefits and the New Health Care Landscape brings a fresh perspective to the debate on health care and health insurance in America.

“When Alan Cohen opened the doors at Liazon in 2007, he revolutionized the way insurance was sold. Though the idea was simple, it was also ahead of its time. Liazon was among the first companies to establish a private health insurance exchange, a trend that has since exploded. Employee Benefits and the New Health Care Landscape gives us a rare, inside look into the mind that created ‘the exchange wave’ ten years ago.”
—Kathryn Mayer, Editor-in-Chief, Employee Benefit News

“Regardless of your political affiliation, sitting out the current debate on health care and benefits is no longer an option. Private exchanges offer one solution to one part of the problem; this book explains why.”
—Christopher E. Condeluci, CC Law & Policy PLLC, ACA expert

“It has been my pleasure to work with Alan Cohen over the years and observe the private exchange evolution firsthand. The industry has been in need of a book like this for a very long time.”
—Rhonda Marcucci, Vice President, HR & Benefits Technology Consulting Practice at Gruppo Marcucci, a division of Gallagher Benefit Services, Inc.

ISBN: 9780134665306

Dimensions: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm

Weight: 394g

288 pages