Stem the Rise of High-Cost Medical Claims: Key Tips

Overview

Date: October 9, 2024

Time: 2 PM EST | 11 AM PST

Cost: Complimentary

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Surveys from the past five years show that the percentage of self-insured employers incurring claims over $1 million ranges from 20% to 31%. With the corporate consolidation of healthcare, rapid acquisition of medical groups and surgery centers by private equity firms, and other fluctuations in the industry, high dollar claims are rapidly increasing, and they are crushing self-insured groups. Brokers and group plans need to find ways to protect their clients and plans from high-cost claims driven by illegitimate charges and billing practices. 

Join this complimentary webcast to discover how to overcome financial and legal pressure, to protect against unfair and unscrupulous overbilling. You’ll learn:

  • How to save your clients, yourself and plan participants millions of dollars every year
  • The most precise applications of advanced captive strategies, medical bill review, and repricing methods available
  • The latest advances in technology, AI, and clinical bill review 
  • How to protect brokers, plan sponsors, and plan participants from illegitimately inflated cost claims

Featured Speakers:

Kari Niblack, JD | President | Blackwell Captive Solutions

Kari Niblack, JD, President of Blackwell Captive Solutions. Kari Niblack became Blackwell Captive President in 2022 to spearhead a different type of captive that differentiates and delivers essential stability with desired flexibility via access to cutting edge solutions that combine buying power with tailoring freedom from members. In addition to her executive leadership roles spanning almost 3 decades in the self-funded industry, Kari regularly speaks and publishes on issues affecting self-funded health plans and served as chairwoman, board of directors, of the Self Insurance Institute of America. Kari is a licensed attorney in Indiana and Florida and a certified senior professional in human resources (SPHR).
Anna Quarum | President | WellRithms

Since helping co-found WellRithms in 2018, Anna Quarum has taken roles of increasing responsibility to build the operational infrastructure supporting rapid growth. In 2020, she began leading the sales and marketing team that drove revenue growth more than tenfold.  Upon taking over the role of Chief Operations Officer in 2021, she was tasked with compliance oversight and the rollout of an insurance captive, creating a distinctive competitive advantage for the company.  In 2023, she successfully launched AudxGuard, an innovative health plan compliance and claims data audit firm to support health plans in proactively responding to recent Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021 reporting requirements. In July of 2024, she became President of the company.

Her broad professional experiences include education, chaplaincy, and property management.

Anna holds a Bachelor’s from Liberty University, a Master’s of Arts from George Fox University, and a Master’s in Biblical and Theological Studies from Western Seminary.