It's a Gravie Thing: Health Benefits You Can Love Gravie | Pod People

Individual HRA, Individual Market Solution, ICHRA - all three names that can make a simple solution sound complicated. At their core, ICHRAs put choices back in the hands of employees, and remove the unpredictable burden of health plan costs from employers. ICHRAs can allow small and midsize businesses to punch above their weight, making a spectrum of coverage options and health benefit plans available to employees.

For this episode, Gravie Chief Marketing Officer and host Jeff Smokler sat down with a few guests to get the full range of perspectives on ICHRA. Brian Blase, President of Paragon Health Institute, was one of the architects behind ICHRA’s policy rollout in. Cory Wiskow, President of Wealshire, talks about the benefits from an employer point of view, highlighting the benefits ICHRAs offer to both businesses and employees. Eric Mann, Gravie’s VP of Sales, offers insights on how ICHRA’s have impacted the health benefit market thus far, and where he sees it all headed.

The plight of the uninsured is well documented, but what is less discussed is how those who have health benefits face financial burden due to limits in their coverage. Access to affordable care is an increasing burden for eligible employees, and too many health plans leave members with significant out-of-pocket costs that leave them as bad off as if they didn’t have coverage at all.

Aja Evans, LMHC and financial therapist, and Laura Cave, Chief Marketing Officer of Paytient, join Gravie Chief Marketing Officer and host Jeff Smokler for a conversation that takes a hard look at the financial difficulties facing the millions of insured Americans who still can’t afford medical care, and what innovative health benefits plans can do about it.

Health benefits. They’re a headache, whether you’re an employer or an employee. Out of pocket costs, deductibles, co-pays - each another reason to avoid going to the doctor. But why does it have to be this way?

At Gravie, we don’t think it does. We’re reimagining the employer-sponsored health benefits market, showing how small and midsize businesses can punch above their weight with benefits plans employees will want to use. On It’s a Gravie Thing, we’ll talk to experts in their field about ICHRAs, underwriting, mental health, and more. We’ll explore existing and upcoming innovations in the health benefits space, and how those innovations are improving the ways small and midsize businesses in particular provide affordable healthcare coverage to their employees.