Episodes

Rachel Strauss is Director of Strategic Development at EHIM, "national, privately held, woman-owned (WBENC) Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) and Third-Party Administrator that helps organizations proactively contain rising pres...

In this episode, Seth Denson, Co-Founder and CSO of GDP Advisors joined me on the podcast to help explain Insurance Captives. Seth talks about the right size group, the appropriate risk profile to join a captive, as well as ...

Jonathan Lopez, Ed.D - aka "Dr. J-Lo" joins me on this episode to cover the role of the Third Party Administrator from a different perspective than covered previously. He views the role of the TPA as the "Adjudicator", and e...

Yo, what up gang, Spencer here… Thanks for checking out “Self-Funded with Spencer”, a podcast that seeks to educate around, and advocate for, the self-funded health insurance marketplace. It has been said that the best defens...

Episode 7 of "Self-Funded w/ Spencer" with the hardest working person in employee benefits - Lester J. Morales , Founder and CEO of Next Impact ! Lester is seemingly everywhere these days, both literally and virtually, as one...

We have approached self-funding from many different insurance industry angles so far, but the most crucial vantage point is discussed in this episode with Tommy Fulmer - The EMPLOYER's perspective. Tommy is responsible for ac...

Courtney is a Sales Executive with ZERO, which focuses on reducing claims costs to a self-funded plan by directly contracting with providers and paying for procedures with predetermined, agreed-upon pricing bundles. An added ...

4 episodes in and I finally got to talk some stop loss again! Jeff Petty is the President of PACE Underwriters, a Dallas-based Managing General Underwriter (MGU ) of Stop Loss Insurance. He joined me to discuss what an MGU d...

Come for education on the Healthcare Navigation industry, and stay for a discussion on Alpacas! Dr. Eric Bricker is a physician, built a successful healthcare navigation company, and is the founder of AHealthcareZ, which focu...

In this episode we begin to drill down into the self-funded conversation to look at the individual moving parts. Today's component is the Third Party Administrator, also known as a "TPA". Jennifer Morgan of Collective Health ...

This is the inaugural episode of Self-Funded with Spencer, where I am joined by the Practice Leader at Roach Howard Smith Barton (RHSB) Insurance, Dennis Fowler. Dennis helped me define Self-Funded for this and future episode...