Solutions for:
Health Plans & Insurers

Reinsurance
Predictability Tools
Managed Care Provider Excess
Stop Loss
Managed Care Professional Liability
Managed Transplant
Neonatal Management
Evergreen Rx, Pharmacy Programs
Disease Management
Advocacy
Other Solutions


Managed Care Providers
Self-Funded Employers
Taft Hartley/Union Funds
Business Coalitions & Associations

Hospitals and Hospital Systems





 

 



Evergreen Re helped us to recognize the value of transplant insurance and how it would help us get quality outcomes and provide our members with the best coverage. We have been very impressed with the coverage and service and just recently renewed a three-year contract.


~ Mike Bennington
Senior Director
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

 

 

Solutions for Health Plans & Insurers

Evergreen Re provides and administers managed care reinsurance programs for health plans -- including Medicare and Medicaid plans -- in more than 45 states. We also provide a wide spectrum of risk-reduction products and services designed to protect your bottom line.

 

Reinsurance

As the largest managed care reinsurance brokerage firm in the country, Evergreen Re helps health plans and other managed care organizations throughout the country protect their capital and cash flow from catastrophic claims.

Working closely with Reden & Anders, an actuarial and consulting firm with the largest proprietary managed care database in the country, we have developed a series of tools to help you find the precise balance. Using some of the most comprehensive and sophisticated data analysis models in the industry, we can help you determine the right mix of reinsurance and capital to make those important decisions. We then place custom-designed coverage that helps you keep risks – and costs – under control.

We also offer Shared Stop Loss, Treaty and Quota Share programs as well as Captives and other Risk Retention Programs for managed care organizations and providers.

For a free analysis of your current reinsurance contract, please email abischoff@evergreenre.com.

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Predictability Tools

Optimal Reinsurance Program™
This is one of our primary value propositions we use to help us select the reinsurer or product that offers the best value to the customer. The Optimal Reinsurance Program™ was developed in conjunction with a leading, national managed care actuarial firm. The components of this program include:

  • Theoretical Reinsurance Analysis™. With a thorough understanding of the evolving nature of risk faced by health plans, the purpose of this analysis is to enable health plans to optimize the combination of capital and reinsurance (covered services and retention) to achieve 95% confidence of maintaining their current surplus level at the lowest total cost of protection.

  • Coverage Structure and Marketing. We don't simply provide information to reinsurers, we package data in a proven format to maximize insurer response and competitiveness. We then utilize our broad access and significant leverage to help ensure our customers get the most efficient coverage available.

  • Net Cost Analysis. Recognizing that gross premium expense is not nearly as important as plan predictability and net cost of catastrophic transfer, Evergreen Re developed this analysis to determine the relative value of competing insurer (coverage) proposals.

  • Optimal Reinsurance Analysis. This analysis marries the results of the Theoretical Reinsurance Analysis with the Net Cost Analysis to point to the most efficient level of reinsurance. It enables final decision-making around the health plan's "appetite" for risk and surplus protection, including risk based capital goals.

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Evergreen Rx - Pharmacy Benefits Management Consulting

Checking Your Vital Signs

With all the innovative drugs, expensive pharmaceutical therapies and new technologies available today, are you confident your pharmacy costs won’t spiral out of control?

Is someone auditing your pharmacy costs to make sure the right people are getting the right drugs at the right costs?

Is your group getting back all the manufacturer’s discounts that represent thousands of dollars to your bottom line?

If you answer no to all or any of the above, you are not alone.  Evergreen Rx has saved health plans and other pharmacy benefit payors more than $199 million in pharmacy costs through our contracting expertise, market knowledge and buying leverage.  More importantly, these savings do not come from either formulary change or benefit change, but strictly a result of more favorable contracting.

Evergreen Rx, AHIP’s Pharmacy Consultant Solutions Partner, uses proprietary tools designed by our pharmacy team to help save clients between $8.74 pmpm for fully marketing their Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) contract to more than $3 pmpm when we simply renegotiate an existing PBM contract.

Representing more than $2.4 billion in pharmacy spend, Evergreen Rx is uniquely poised to help clients evaluate their current PBM contract, compare it with other similar contracts, review contract compliance, billing errors and provide ongoing management to insure compliance.

Additionally, as art of the ongoing consulting management services, the Evergreen Rx professionals identify opportunities for savings through the constant movement of product in the industry – the introduction of new drugs and drug technologies, the movement of brand drugs to generic to over the counter.

Evergreen Rx was ahead of the industry in advising and making operational the coverage of Prilosec OTC for our clients – saving one Medicaid health plan client $4 pmpm months before any of their competitors.


High-Cost Biologics & Pharmaceuticals
Typically chronic disease patients make up less than 1% of your health plan members, yet they represent 25-30% of pharmacy costs. With more than 100 biotech products currently available and hundreds more in the pipeline, we have identified three areas that payors can save money and protect their bottom line by better management of these high-cost therapies:

  • Lower prices on biologics and injectible drugs
  • Paying only for the drugs used, with no over purchasing due to lot requirements
  • Early intervention, adherence to therapy and prevention of complications involving quality of patient care
  • Last year a health plan responsible for 85,000 lives realized a savings of $640,150 or more than 27.7% of their chronic disease pharmaceutical costs by using this specialty biologics and injectible drugs program

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Managed Care Provider Excess

Evergreen Re can help your organization determine if you have the right type and the appropriate level of provider excess loss coverage at the lowest total net cost. As risk-bearing organizations take on many of the responsibilities and risk from health plans, our client services staff can help make sure you eliminate slow payment of claims that threaten solvency and destroy cash flow.

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Employer Stop Loss

We help self-funded employers, coalitions, insurers and funds determine the most appropriate program to protect themselves against catastrophic claims and unpredictable losses. Specific Stop Loss insurance reimburses an employer for catastrophic claims incurred by a plan participant above a specific deductible, while Aggregate Stop Loss reimburses an employer for higher than anticipated health care expenses incurred by all plan participants. We also offer Shared Stop Loss, Treaty and Quota Share programs as well as Captives and other Risk Retention Programs.

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Managed Care Professional Liability

In an increasingly hard insurance market, with unrelenting exposure to litigation, Evergreen Re can help you identify alternative solutions available, including best managed care errors and omissions insurance as well as liability insurance for the directors and officers of healthcare and managed care organizations.

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Transplant Management Programs

The volume of solid organ and bone marrow transplants has doubled in the past ten years, and the number of people on waiting lists has tripled. With advances in medical technology and immunosuppressant drugs, the rate of transplants is expected to increase significantly. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the increasing incidence of Hepatitis C alone is expected to increase demand for liver transplants by 500% by 2008.

 

Managed Transplant Insurance
A comprehensive carve-out program converts this unpredictable and catastrophic risk to a flat monthly cost, allowing payors to budget for claims evenly throughout the year. Additionally, cash-flow advantages may occur as reinsurance recoveries from transplant claims are eliminated. This is typically a first dollar coverage with no deductible, but we can tailor the program to meet individual needs, specific procedures, limitations, out-of-network benefits and specific hospitals.

Transplant Programs & Networks
With an average claim cost of more than $300,000, the increased frequency of transplants can quickly become a catastrophic expense for most organizations. We can provide an innovative transplant program that can help reduce costs, increase productivity and reduce access fees. Our programs provide access to nationally-recognized centers of excellence.

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Neonatal Risk Programs

With the cost of neonatal intensive care exceeding $8 billion a year, we can help evaluate and secure emerging full or partial risk transfer of catastrophic claims associated with premature infants. Evergreen Re specialists can help identify best-class solutions, from high-risk screenings to full case management, using an analytical process to help you determine if the increase in fiscal predictability that a neonatal product provides is cost effective for your organization.

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Disease Management

Evergreen Re offers clients a special program designed to control costs and manage Cardiac Disease, a health problem affecting 1 million Americans, with 400,000 new cases every year.

With nearly $107 billion spent on cancer treatment each year, we also offer an Oncology Management program to assist you in increasing patient satisfaction while helping to reduce unnecessary and redundant costs.

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Advocacy -- We Work For You

At Evergreen Re we represent the interest of our clients first and foremost. Whether your needs are for reinsurance or any of our other products and services, we become your advocate and work with you to make sure you have the right type and right level of coverage at the lowest total net cost. Once we market your risk and place your insurance, our goal is to make sure you thoroughly understand your coverage, and use it to your advantage.

We not only conduct a comprehensive installation and training program, but will also help you prepare monthly reports, advocating your position on difficult claims and following up with the insurer to get your claims within 30-45 days, twice as fast as the industry average of roughly 90 days. Bottom line, we provide clients significant cash flow advantages resulting from timely reimbursements.

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Other Solutions

Finite Reinsurance, Treaty and Quota Share, Captives and Risk, Retention, Oncology Management and Risk, Cardiovascular Disease Management, Specialty Care Networks, Surety Bond, Client Advocacy Services, Claims and Business Process Outsourcing, Claims Audits, Data Driven Services, TPA Outsourcing, PPO and Indemnity Issuing Carrier, Subrogation and other Third Party Liability, Fraud & Abuse Programs.

 

  

 

   

 

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