Kristi Cherney 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 Kristi Cherney 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.

Kristi Cherney

Kristi Cherney

Chief Client Officer, Population Health Management Consultant

Alera Group
kristi.cherney@aleragroup.com
715.246.8064

Health Rosetta Advisor since 2024

Kristi serves our organization and clients with a focus on making a difference, improving population health, providing exceptional service, and prioritizing lifelong learning & personal growth. Since 2015, her organizational focus has been on prioritizing a client-centric service focus layered with an environment that fosters collaboration and teamwork, creating an account management service structure that serves clients.

Prior to joining the organization, Kristi’s background wove through different aspects of population health management, EAP, Work-Life, Concierge, Health Coaching, Health Risk Assessment, and Online enhancements to increase adoption of lifestyle changes. This background, her personal interest in longevity and health-span, and her core for delivering exceptional, efficient client service are all combined in how Kristi serves and assists organizations.

Kristi is focused on bringing practical solutions to organizations regarding health management, cost control, and recruitment that supports the wellbeing of employees; encouraging a win-win approach to reducing healthcare costs and improving quality of life for the people that make up our organizations. Kristi lives in the Osceola area with her family. She is enjoying watching her children grow and evolve and navigating the changes that come with being a mom of a teen & young adult! She loves to spend her free-time with family, traveling, riding her motorcycle (a favorite mindfulness exercise), hiking, biking, and camping.

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Nolato led an initiative to drive a collaborative direct primary clinic on their site. While this has been in place for a few years, it is still a constant effort and a desire to collaborate with other employers. Nolato has consistently been a leader in care management and cost containment—always willing to speak to other employers, influence at the manufacturers association, and more!

  • Industry: Plastics Products
  • # of Employees: 265
  • Location: Wisconsin

Nolato is hyper-focused on workforce development—both the workforce of today and the future. They engage in the community by developing and strategizing around housing and technical education for local students. Nolato is focused on offering care for the families of their employees and has not moved to spousal carve-outs (although it would be a financial benefit) because of this. We look at this as a reinvestment of the dividend.

Finally, for 2025, Nolato made a million-dollar financial investment to move back to COE/network-based care from reference-based pricing. The RBP worked well for the financials, but that was it—the market was declining all care, and employees were frustrated. So they invested and will continue to promote high value through use of incentives and steerage.

  • TPA: Prairie States
  • PBM: Scout Rx
  • Stoploss: N/A
  • PrimaryCare: One To One Health; First Stop Health
  • Individual Stewardship: Employer Health Cooperative (Ehcw); Trilogy; Holista; Americas Ppo
  • Other Solutions: Fe Dlogic; Mayo Clinic Complex Care Management; Md Direct
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