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Optimatum In the News
| July 21, 2011 | Action Alert: Employer-Sponsored Drug Abuse. The number of people filling prescriptions for powerful, addictive pain killers is increasing at an explosive pace Rx Drug Abuse is on the rise. A portion of the individuals dependent on these prescriptions could be sitting in your company — a problem that many organizations are hesitant to address or discuss |
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| February 18, 2011 | White Paper: 2011—Year of Reining in Healthcare Costs Employers will be forced to focus on reducing healthcare costs in 2011, according to our latest white paper "Holding Health Care Costs in Check". The pressure of current trends and the availability of new options will make this a top priority. "Shifting healthcare costs to employees isn’t working,” says Optimatum’s Chief Executive Officer David Neikrug. "Many employees will reduce utilization because of higher deductibles and that leads to more costs for employers long term. Employers can find the real savings in holding vendors more accountable." |
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| January 12, 2011 | Action Alert: Third-party retirement plan administrator sentenced for false statements on Form 5500 Government Action – A New World In 5500 Compliance -- Starting in 2011, companies will be motivated to make 5500 compliance a priority. The last quarter of 2010 were witness to likely the first ever significant jail sentence related to a false statement on a Form 5500. |
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| August 12, 2010 | Webinar: "Questions Your Healthcare Vendor Doesn’t Want You to Ask". With their ongoing commitment in helping employers control their healthcare costs on August 31, 2010, Optimatum Group LLC will be holding a webinar titled Questions Your Healthcare Vendor Doesn’t Want you to ask. |
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| August 5, 2010 | Action Alert: Aetna and CVS Caremark Agree to 12-Year Contract for Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) Services. Aetna announced on July 27, 2010, that it has awarded CVS Caremark with a 12-year contract to administer approximately $9.5 billion in annual drug spend to 9.7 million of its members, effective as of January 1, 2011. |
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| June 22, 2010 | Action Alert: CVS Caremark and Walgreens Announce New PBM Network Agreement. This situation highlights the importance of renegotiating contracts to protect against potential network disruptions. |
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| November 19, 2009 | White Paper: Managing Health Care Costs with Accountability "Regardless of where employers are in their annual benefits cycle, the opportunity to save in excess of $1,000 per employee per year persists," says David Neikrug Chief Executive Officer of Optimatum Group LLC. "Plugging the leakage can start today since it does not impact plan design or employees. This white paper details key areas which executives should focus on." |
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| November 3, 2009 | Health Kicks The US pension sector is having to cope not just with the increased cost of retirement provision but also the attendant healthcare obligations many schemes are under – liabilities that must now be accounted for upfront. |
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| March 16, 2009 | Squeezing More from Your Insurer (audio interview) David Neikrug, Chief Executive Officer of Optimatum Group LLC, talks about how companies are managing to cut their healthcare costs in ways that don't involve shifting costs directly onto employees. |
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| February 26, 2009 | Consultants Weigh Health Insurance Options For independent business professionals the rising cost of health care coverage is always a concern. While some may be able to take advantage of employer-provided coverage through a spouse, others are on their own. How can HR consultants ensure that they are making the right choices to minimize cost but maximize coverage? |
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| December 22, 2008 | Optimatum Solution Saved Employers on Average $1,086.00 per Employee in 2008 Without Shifting Costs. New data from Optimatum Group, LLC validates that employers continue to save on average $1,086 per employee on health care costs when implementing Optimatum's solution. |
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| August 1, 2008 | Empire PBM Change Offers Opportunity to Control Costs Financial executives have a tremendous opportunity to help their companies control current and future health care costs by negotiating a new pharmacy benefit management (PBM) contract rather than passively accepting the proposed Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield PBM migration. |
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| July 1, 2008 | Power Aides They're not the brokers of yesteryear: In today's economic climate, benefits brokers must play multiple roles as they help clients wrestle with soaring healthcare costs. The 2008 Power Brokers feature provides insight into what some successful brokers are doing to maximize their clients' benefit situations. |
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| June 1, 2008 | Digitizing Healthcare One major study, from the RAND Corp., says that injecting information technology into the national healthcare-data quagmire will potentially save America $77 billion annually. |
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| May 1, 2008 | Benefits Update: Shifting Priorities in an Uncertain Economy Salary alone isn't enough to attract the best candidates in accounting or finance. Today, benefits have become the top priority of professionals looking for a new career challenge, surpassing the lure of work/life flexibilities, signing bonuses and extra vacation. |
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| April 1, 2008 | HR practitioners and experts offer pointers and due-dilligence steps for evaluating benefits brokers and choosing the best one for your organization When Riverdeep Group, based in Ireland, acquired publisher Houghton Mifflin in 2006 from massive Reed-Elsevier, Clara Smyth inherited 3,000 new employees. She also inherited a contract with a large benefits broker as part of the deal. |
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| February 1, 2008 | Health Care: Tips for Auditing Dependent Eligibility Employers continue to seek ways to eliminate unnecessary costs and waste within their health plans. One means that's increasingly popular is conducting a "dependent eligibility audit." |
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| January 1, 2008 | Health Care in America: Where the Candidates Stand The problem of how to deal with the rising costs of health care promises to remain a hotly contested topic in the 2008 presidential race. |
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