Switching to self-funding: market insights and best practices

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Switching to self-funding: market insights and best practices

Live webinar

Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Time: 2-3 PM ET

Self-funding is on the rise. According to a 2016 Sun Life sponsored employer insights study there will be nearly 35,000 potential new self-funded employers by 20201.

Join Doug Gosney, AVP, Stop Loss Market Manager and experienced self-funding brokers Shay Cowan, Principal, Katz Pierz and William Laughlin, GBDS, VP, Manager of Data Analytics, Conner Strong & Buckelew as they answer your questions live and share insights and broker best practices to help you support the 40% of fully insured employers who would consider switching to self-funding2.

Topics and key learnings include:

  • Defining the fully-insured market opportunity
    • Number of employers considering switching

  • Drivers and barriers
    • Reasons employers consider self-funding
    • Most prevalent concerns and barriers

  • The employer experience
    • Timeline: consideration to conversion
    • How brokers assisted in the decision

Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to receive market insights and best practices from experts in the industry. Register now!

  1. Information provided from the 2016 Employer Insights research study sponsored by Sun Life and conducted by Chadwick Martin Bailey. The blind study included decision makers for companies that have between 50 and 999 employees and offer medical benefits to all their full-time employees.
  2. This estimate is an extrapolation using population census and survey data to convert the 40% of fully insured employers that indicated they would consider converting to self-funding into full market potential.

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