Wellness — creating member change

by Larry Luter, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Meritain Health

As healthcare costs continue to escalate, it is vital that employers adopt new strategies to control future costs. The single most effective strategy is encouraging and facilitating positive member change and wellness.

It is important that brokers/agents understand that all workforces are not created equal. Each employee population has its own unique risk factors, so a wellness program that works for one employer will not work for all employers. Therefore, brokers/agents need to identify the specific risk factors affecting their clients’ employees and dependents to develop wellness programs that address these risk factors.

The recent combination of Meritain Health and CBSA PERFORMAX has created the nation’s largest privately-held manager of health benefit plans. Over the past several months, we have worked diligently to combine the best practices of the two organizations and are building the new Meritain Health.

In the coming months we will change our name to Meritain Health. In the interim, today we are operating as “CBSA PERFORMAX, a Meritain Health Company.” We will soon become one — Meritain Health — and the result will be a single strong organization with substantial advantages and innovative product offerings for our brokers/agents and clients.

This is the final edition of Benefit Broker Journal. Next month, we will introduce the inaugural edition of Meritain Health’s new broker/agent e-newsletter. Through this new e-newsletter, we will continue to address the challenges you face and the issues of importance to your practice.

We appreciate your support and readership. Be sure to check out this month’s feature article from Dr. Luter to learn more about wellness and A E I O U and sometimes Y!

Look for the new Meritain Health broker e-newsletter in April.