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Finally! An Employer's Guide to Reduce Healthcare Expenses without Reducing Benefits.

A no nonsense book that identifies the issues of what's really driving the waste and abuse in our health insurance system and how change those areas.

If Necessity is the Mother of Invention, Healthcare Costs are the Mother of all Mothers!

Whether you're new to Employee Benefits or a 40 year veteran, the continued escalation of healthcare costs demand new thinking, creativity and solutions. This book is a compilation of all three!

This book is exactly what’s needed for employers to tackle head on the national crisis of health insurance costs. No scared cows or self-interests are being protected or justified, just innovative and creative ways to provide plans employees will appreciate at a cost their employer can afford.

Dave Woodruff
Dave Woodruff Sr. Vice President McGriff Insurance Services

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What the The Opioid Crisis Wake-Up Call provides.

The Opioid Crisis Wake-up Call is the next edition of the CEO's Guide, with some over-lapping content, substantial new content, a different framing and a much broader target audience.
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • A Note on Reading This Book
  • Chapter 1: The Opioid Crisis Isn’t an Anomaly
  • Chapter 2: So How Did We Get Here
  • Chapter 3: America Has Gone to War for Far Less
  • Case Study: Pittsburgh (Allegheny County) Schools
  • Chapter 4: Health Care Costs are Flat Despite What You Have Heard
  • Chapter 5: What You Don’t Know About the Pressures and Constraints
    Facing Insurance Executives Costs You Dearly
  • Chapter 6: Health Care is Stealing Millennials’ Future – But They Will Take it Back
  • Case Study: Rosen Hotels & Resorts
  • Chapter 7: 7 Tricks Used to Redistribute Money From Your Organization to the Health Care Industry
  • Chapter 8: PPO Networks Deliver Value—and Other Flawed Assumptions That Crush Your Budget
  • Case Study: City of Milwaukee
  • Chapter 9: Criminal Fraud Is Much Bigger Than You Think
  • Chapter 10: Are Workplace Wellness Programs Hazardous to Your Health?
  • Chapter 11: You Run a Health Care Business Whether You Like It or Not.
  • Chapter 12: How to Pick a Benefits Consultant
  • Case Study: Langdale Industries
  • Chapter 13: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Benefits Professionals
  • Chapter 14: Centers of Excellence Are a Golden Opportunity
  • Chapter 15: Independent Claims Administrators vs. Insurance Company Claims Administrators –The Trade-Offs
  • Chapter 16: The Future of Health Will Be Local, Open, and Independent
  • Chapter 17: Health 3.0 Vision and Implications for Providers & Government
  • Chapter 18: Economic Development 3.0: Communities Take Center Stage
  • Chapter 19: Mayors Must Lead Cities Out of the Opioid Crisis
  • Case Study: Rural county goes from highest to lowest rate of opioid deaths in two years
  • Chapter 20: Making Sure Opioid Mitigation Plans Mitigate the Right Things
  • Chapter 21: Value-based Primary Care
  • Chapter 22: Transparent Medical Market
  • Case Study: Enovation Controls
  • Chapter 23: Concierge-Style Employee Customer Service
  • Chapter 24: High-Value, Transparent TPA
  • Chapter 25: Transparent Pharmacy Benefits
  • Chapter 26: “ERISA Fiduciary Risk is the Largest Undisclosed Risk I’ve Seen in My Career”
  • Appendix A: Evidence-Based Services for People with Opioid Use Disorder
  • Appendix B: Status Quo Benefits vs. Health Rosetta Type Benefits
  • Appendix C: A Practical Handbook for Systems Change
  • Appendix D: Client Notice, Plan Sponsor Bill of Rights, and Code of Conduct
  • Appendix E: Sample Compensation Disclosure Form
  • Appendix F: Health Rosetta Principles
  • Appendix G: Why Doctors are Running Out of Empathy
  • Appendix H: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase Can Lead Employer Solution to Opioid Crisis on the Journey to Larger Health Care Reinvention
  • Appendix I: Decoding a fully insured renewal
  • Appendix J: Benefits Options for Small Businesses and Sole Proprietors

What people are saying

Praise for the CEO's Guide to Restoring the American Dream. & The Opioid Crisis Wake-Up Call

The Opioid Crisis Wake-Up Call

This is a must-read for any business leader tasked with providing high-quality healthcare to employees. Chase delivers a compelling account of what we've been doing wrong with benefits purchasing, and how we the people, not Washington elites, can solve the opioid crisis.

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Steve Forbes Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media

Dave Chase diagnoses the dangerous and expensive shortcomings of our health care system and inspires us to create a more transparent and accountable one. Using the evolution of the opioid crisis to demonstrate how US healthcare has failed on multiple fronts, Dave illustrates the cornerstones of reform: value-based payment, accessible, comprehensive primary care, employer/provider/community partnerships, and available, relevant data. The Opioid Crisis Wake-up Call should be required reading for anyone working to engineer a better US health care system.

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David Lansky, PhD President and chief executive officer of the Pacific Business Group on Health

A fresh perspective from one the one of the most brilliant minds in health care. Chase is not beholden to any of the [industry's] giant stakeholders. The result is a uniquely honest and novel conversation about what’s best for America.

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Marty Makary Johns Hopkins Surgeon & NYT Bestselling Author of Unaccountable

CEO's Guide to Restoring
The American Dream

The book is packed with wisdom you can’t find elsewhere but also a nice, light style that makes it addictive. There is so much in this book that is hidden behind the many layers of obfuscation characterizing our healthcare system. As a group trying to create and then disseminate new models of care that improve outcomes and lower costs, we are continuously running into hidden barriers with insurers and also un-empowered healthcare purchasers. This book has the practical prescription for moving it all forward. I’m making it required reading at Dell Med and recommending it for our many partners.

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S. Claiborne "Clay" Johnston Dean, Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin.

One of the top ten healthcare books of all time, and #1 for delivering practical advice.

Photo by Bryce Vickmark for Workforce Magazine 9/23/13 - Al Lewis of Disease Management Purchasing Consortium International, Inc at his home office in Newton, MA.
Al Lewis Father of disease management & CEO at Quizzify

Dave, you nailed it! Your message is vital for business leaders as it exposes the many dirty secrets behind the business of Employee Benefit plans. Yes, it is time to shed dependence on those who have benefited most from lousy results and demand vastly improved outcomes for employers and their employees. This is a must read to turn the tables on the benefits industry.

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Eric Krieg Founder & President Risk International Benefits Advisory

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