Armada Consulting Group and ConnectYourCare Deal Creates New Options

More leverage in choosing the best healthcare program for employees

ConnectYourCare, the carrier-independent Consumer Directed Healthcare (CDH) portal, and Armada Consulting Group, a mid-Atlantic professional consulting firm specializing in healthcare, have partnered to give more options to small and mid-sized employers who want to offer CDH.

Small to mid-sized companies often have little leverage when negotiating group HMO and PPO plans with health insurers. As a result, many employers in this category are considering CDH as an effective way to offer more options to employees and bring down premiums.

ìWe feel this market is greatly underserved and in need of high-end consulting that historically has not been available to employers of this size,î said Armada Managing Partner Keith Sullivan. ìAccordingly, we will be introducing our clients to solutions such as ConnectYourCare, which provide great value and the flexibility to change insurance products over time, without changing the employeeís interface. We also like the fact that ConnectYourCare has a risk-averse strategy for moving clients to CDH at their own pace.î

Leveraging CDH expertise from Armada Consulting Group, employers will be able to manage the rollout of CDH using ConnectYourCare as their employee platform, portal and education tool. Features of the ConnectYourCare platform include: leading edge HSA, HRA, and FSA account management using ConnectYourCareís smart debit card, benefits enrollment capability, a paperless claims-submission process, a medical encyclopedia, guidance on chronic conditions, wellness incentives, an integrated online drugstore, advocacy services, Internet access to employee account balances, and claims payment status reporting.

Armada offers clients with 200-5000 employees a proprietary methodology called Armada Health Pathways(SM), used to efficiently guide clients through the health plan service continuum, including plan design, financing, implementation, employee communication, and detailed plan analysis. This level of sophisticated consultation was traditionally only available to large companies.

We see eye-to-eye with the Armada Consulting Group about where healthcare in the U.S. is heading,î Jamie Spriggs, COO and President of ConnectYourCare. ìThey share our vision that the economics of healthcare will improve only with consumer driven initiatives and, therefore, the adoption of CDH clearly taking hold in the middle market.

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