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Employers of all sizes across the country are all looking down the barrel of rising healthcare costs. With little innovation in the industry, many are left with no other choice than simply to accept double-digit increases to their annual premium and either absorb that expense or pass it onto their employees. Recent results from one […]
Read MoreSince 2016, Strada Healthcare has been a leading force in developing cost-effective ways to track cost savings and health metrics for employer groups. Like other Direct Primary Care companies, we know that providing unlimited access to primary care with no co-pays or deductibles will inevitably improve health outcomes and avoid unnecessary medical expenses, but we […]
Read MoreIn a monumental step for the Direct Primary Care movement, on April 11th Nebraska lawmakers passed LB1119 which creates a pilot program to offer Direct Primary Care to state employees starting in 2019. The bill was sponsored by Ralston Sen. Merv Riepe, who has been a longtime advocate for DPC since he initially lead the charge for […]
Read MoreNebraska state employees might have a brand new healthcare offering coming in 2019: Direct Primary Care. This week, the Nebraska State Legislature heard from Senator Merv Riepe as he presented LB-1119, a bill that would allow state employees to enroll in a Direct Primary Care plan. Under this new type of health plan, employees of […]
Read MoreStrada Healthcare is Nebraska’s largest Direct Primary Care provider and is excited to announce that it recently reached an agreement with Time Health to transition Time Health members to Strada Healthcare. Members of Time Health have been notified of this change are welcome to choose from any of Strada Healthcare’s multiple locations in the greater-Omaha […]
Read MoreBy Joel Bessmer, MD Year after year, employers hand out unlimited company credit cards also known as medical insurance cards for their employees to purchase their medical care, and very few receive back any data showing what their employees actually purchased. Imagine you are a business owner and you hand one of your sales reps […]
Read MoreBy Joel Bessmer, MD It’s that time of year again. The time when most Americans will reflect on the past and set healthier goals for the future. Too often, however, the novelty of a “New Year, New You” wears off around mid-February and people fall back into old habits. In my years of practicing medicine […]
Read MoreWhat is Strada Healthcare: Strada Healthcare, Nebraska’s largest Direct Primary Care (DPC) practice, partnered with Burton Plumbing Services Inc. in 2017 to provide employees with improved access to primary care. Strada is a disruptive model of healthcare which removes the headache of health insurance while providing nearly unlimited primary care for a low cost, monthly […]
Read MoreThere is something rotten in the state of medicine, especially family medicine. Merritt Hawkins has recently reported that the average wait time for an appointment with a family physician is 29.5 days. That’s almost an entire month of waiting. A month in between when you, or your child, need to be seen and when the […]
Read MoreBy Justin Horn, CSFS Another example of the drama playing out with America’s health insurance system is in Iowa’s individual health insurance exchange. That state has seen insurance carriers dropping out like flies. Within a few days earlier this year both Aetna and Wellmark Blue Cross announced they would not be offering plans in 2018. […]
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