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America Back to Work: Allison De Paoli, Altiqe
Transforming Healthcare Benefits for Employee Retention
In this episode of America Back to Work, Arnette Heintze is joined by Allison De Paoli, CEO of Altiqe, to discuss how small to mid-sized businesses can optimize their healthcare benefits packages. Allison shares her insights on how to turn benefit plans into effective tools for recruitment and retention and helps demystify the process of controlling healthcare costs.
Key Topics Discussed
- Current Trends in Employer-Sponsored Healthcare Programs
- Employees often prefer lower salaries with richer benefits.
- The importance of managing actual healthcare costs vs. just insurance premiums.
- Strategies for Making Healthcare Benefits a Competitive Advantage
- Understanding and leveraging your company’s healthcare data.
- Exploring cost-effective plan structures and direct primary care.
- Communication About Healthcare Plans
- How to communicate plan benefits effectively to employees.
- Tailoring the communication to demonstrate real value.
- Specific Program Recommendations for Small Businesses
- Different approaches based on company size and market.
- The importance of vendor selection and data transparency.
- Metrics and ROI
- Treating benefits as a capital expenditure.
- Key metrics to track for ROI: claims data, pharmacy spends, and employee surveys.
- When to Redesign or Renegotiate Benefits Plans
- Ideal times: during low renewal periods or bad claim years.
- Long-term benefits of switching to vendor-responsible plans.
- Future-Proofing Healthcare Benefits
- Strategies to maintain a balanced approach to costs over time.
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S2Verify is one of the leading, privately held, pre-employment background screening companies in the United States.
Arnette Heintze is co-founder and chief strategy officer at S2Verify. Before establishing S2Verify, Arnette spent more than three decades working at the highest levels of federal, state, and local law enforcement.
He served more than 20 years in the United States Secret Service as a special agent and senior executive,—oØ where he planned, designed, and implemented security strategies to protect U.S. Presidents, world leaders, events of national significance, and our nation’s most sensitive assets, including financial infrastructure.
After retiring from the Secret Service, Arnette focused on building the growth and performance of innovative start-ups and SMBs. In 2004, he established Hillard Heintze, a globally recognized strategic security risk management and investigations firm.
In 2009, along with Bill Whitford and Jim Zimbardi, Arnette established S2 Verify with an approach and methodology that delivers fast, accurate, compliant, and affordable background screening insights crucial to better managing insider risks, threats, and vulnerabilities.