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The ECCHIC Group: St. Louis-based company that provides health and life insurance to big and midsized companies
Author: Ethan Green A group photo inside the Ecchic office showing the people behind the company and the unique atmosphere that defines the workplace culture.

Mark Cuban Says CEOs Don’t Understand Health Care And It’s Costing Them.. BIG!
Mark Cuban is getting a lot of publicity resulting from his Cost Plus Drug model. The attached article has an interesting byline. Cuban says, “CEOs don’t understand

Insurance Companies Are Saving Money At The Expense of Patients’ Lives!
We are hearing about more and more pre-authorizations for prescribed and recommended medical procedures being denied. Almost all of these denials that we are hearing

Prescription Cash Pricing Augments Health Benefits
If you are an employer being victimized by high drug costs for your health insurance plans, there is a very worthwhile alternative. If you partner

PBM’s Threaten Community Lifeline of Local Pharmacies
The attached article titled “PBM’s threaten community lifeline of local pharmacies” was sent to us from one of our clients recently. Apparently it was an

Is There A Catch To These Widespread Prescription Discount Cards?
We oftentimes are asked about the use of prescription discount cards by our clients or one of their group participants. This past weekend, this article

Corners Are Cut To Dispense Prescriptions
Yesterday, I had a long conversation with a former independent pharmacy who had recently sold his business to CVS. Later in the day, I came

Medical care costs to spike – how can companies keep their health expenses down?
Most small and medium size employers have been thoroughly indoctrinated into a mindset that paying insurance premiums to companies like Blue Cross is the best

Would YOU Pay This Bill??
Whether in our business life or personal life, can anyone think of a product that we’d buy without knowing what the price or cost is?

