About Doug Hetherington Doug Hetherington is a health plan visionary, innovator, and program architect. He specializes in providing high-value, sustainable self-funded and level-funded health plan solutions to Benefit Consultants and their mid-market employer clients. Doug started his career as a second-generation Benefits Broker over twenty years ago. As the Great Recession, Affordable
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Industry News: Volume 3, Issue 8
Regularly getting a good night's sleep could cut asthma risk theguardian.com -- Regularly enjoying a good night’s sleep could significantly reduce your risk of developing asthma, a decade-long study suggests. Asthma affects about 300 million people worldwide. Scientists do not know why some people develop the condition while others do not. Now a
April 2023: Pregnant With Possibilities: Employer Fertility Benefits on the Rise
Volume 3, Issue 7: Sherry Rais, CEO & Founder, Enthea Discusses Providing Safe and Affordable Access to Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapies
Dear Colleagues, Medical travel allows individuals to access quality healthcare treatment, surgery and specialty Rx drugs at highly affordable costs outside the US. These options provide people with many benefits, enabling individuals to get care that they could not afford in their home country. This includes people who lack insurance or
Spotlight Interview: Sherry Rais, CEO & Founder, Enthea
About Sherry Rais Sherry Rais, CEO & Co-Founder of Enthea, has helped dozens of startups, non-profit organizations, academic/research institutions, and small businesses raise funds, operate according to their mission and values, and implement processes that enhance their overall efficiency. Sherry believes in living and working in alignment with purpose and is
Industry News: Volume 3, Issue 7
As hearing health moves onto digital platforms, experts emphasize that hearing aids won't be replaced By Annie Burky fiercehealthcare.com --- Digital health innovators are looking to provide more options for auditory care outside of the tradition care path of in-school tests and hearing aids. But as new audio tools abound, audiologists are
Volume 3, Issue 6: Joe Donovan, Chief Executive Officer, The Difference Card, Discusses Providing Cost-Saving Employee Benefit Solutions
Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to share my article titled, “Future-Forward Improvements in Quality Healthcare,” for the March issue of The Self Insurer. Please find this article in the Self-Insurer section of our website, where you can access my monthly articles written for the publication. This issue brings you Joe Donovan, Chief
Spotlight Interview: Joe Donovan, Chief Executive Officer, The Difference Card
About Joe Donovan Joe Donovan is a seasoned healthcare sales executive with 20 years of experience. He graduated from Syracuse University - Martin J. Whitman School of Management with degrees in both Finance and Marketing. Joe’s career in healthcare began in 2004 at UnitedHealthcare, where he excelled as an Account Executive responsible
Industry News: Volume 3, Issue 6
20+ US hospitals among Newsweek's top 100 global hospitals By Kelly Gooch beckershospitalreview.com – More than 20 U.S. hospitals were among those in the top 100 of Newsweek's 2023 list of top 250 global hospitals. For its fifth annual ranking, the magazine, in collaboration with consumer research company Statista, ranked more than 2,300 hospitals