Bill Straw exemplifies health plan excellence and stewardship.

Health Rosetta recognizes the top health plans in America at the annual Rosie Awards. The Rosie Awards recognize high-value, low-cost health plans from employers and unions across the U.S.

Rosie Award winners are chosen from plans recommended by benefits advisors, solution providers, or clinical leaders who meet two important criteria: a high Plan GraderTM score and excellent use of their Health Rosetta Dividend.

The Plan Grader™ is the first comprehensive independent plan assessment to measure and improve your health plan strategy. Plan Grader is an independent 360° health plan risk assessment that provides actionable insights to create an effective 2-3 year strategy to lower costs and improve benefits. Plan Grader is built on the Health Rosetta’s eight components that have been modeled on the successes of hundreds of high-performance plans. Employers and unions can evaluate how their health plan benchmarks to other employers or union plans adopting a Health Rosetta-style health plan. Reach out to Bill Straw to get your Plan Grade today.

Health Rosetta Dividend refers to the well-documented over $1 trillion of industry waste that can be reinvested back into an organization or community to improve wellbeing and build the foundation to restore the American Dream. Examples of Health Rosetta Dividend reinvestment include free college education, advanced primary care services, free or subsidize healthy food, pay increases, Dream Manager, $0 medications, or other tangible improvements that have a direct impact on the health and wellbeing of their workforce, dependents, and communities.

Straw, Bill

Bill Straw

Senior Vice President

Alera Group
wtstraw@gmail.com
717.269.1410

Health Rosetta Advisor since 2020

Bill Straw has more than 23 years of healthcare experience and has a true passion for helping people. He helps clients understand and "de-mystify" healthcare services and benefits. As a senior vice president at AIA, Bill serves as an executive consultant with large-employer clients and participates with the new-business development team.

Bill holds a degree in actuarial science and a fellow designation in the Society of Actuaries (FSA). He is a member of the American Academy of Actuaries. Prior to joining AIA, Bill had a successful career at Highmark where he most recently served as vice president of market underwriting and helped build a strong, results-oriented team providing underwriting and client consulting support for large group clients representing 2.3 million plan members and more than $2 billion in premium revenue. He is a longtime chair of his local township’s planning commission.

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  • Industry: Other Miscellaneous Durable Goods Whsle
  • # of Employees: 231
  • Location: Pennsylvania

Engel Machinery has been able to add an HRA benefit that provides financial incentives to members for seeking quality healthcare providers. The company also now has benefits that can waive members’ deductible or out-of-pocket responsibility when they engage with directly contracted programs. A high-quality EAP benefit solution has been added as well. The Engel team embraces peer mentoring and development and have advocated building apprenticeship programs for employees. Engel continues to explore potential enhancements to its benefit plan to meet the needs of employees at their corporate location and nationally.

  • TPA: N/A
  • PBM: Prime Therapeutics, LLC
  • Stoploss: Pareto Captive Services; Sun Life
  • PrimaryCare: N/A
  • Individual Stewardship: N/A
  • OtherSolutions: Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company
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  • Industry: Electrical Apparatus & Equip, Wiring Supplies, & Construction Mat
  • # of Employees: 1,050
  • Location: Pennsylvania

Phoenix Contact is all about reinvesting in their workforce. The company has been able to keep total employee cost shares below 10%, and has continued to add new benefits for team members. The company has built a functional medicine-focused onsite clinic, added a virtual telehealth solution for members unable to access the onsite clinic, and worked with clinic providers to build programs focused on helping members with diabetes reduce medication dependence.

  • TPA: Alight Solutions
  • PBM: N/A
  • Stoploss: Pareto Captive Services; Tokio Marine HCC
  • PrimaryCare: N/A
  • Individual Stewardship: N/A
  • OtherSolutions: Lyra Health
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