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HCP National is the healthcare industry’s insurance broker, since 1994. Based on premium volume, HCP National is the largest MEWA or Association Health Plan stop loss broker in the country. Besides stop loss, HCP National is a leading expert in all forms of liability coverage for MEWAs. HCP National understands MEWAs and how to insure them.
In addition to stop loss and liability coverages, HCP National specializes in all forms of reinsurance and business insurance. HCP’s Vice President, William Dyer, is known as Mr. MEWA™. In the industry, Dyer is one of the few brokers in the country to place over half a billion dollars in stop loss premium.
Contact: William Dyer Phone Number:
Mr. Megna is the Principal Attorney of the Megna Law Firm and Co-Director of the Genova Burns Insurance Law Practice Group. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Megna for over a decade held various in-house insurance positions. Mr. Megna specializes in representing insurance and other regulated financial institutions. His expertise spans the entire spectrum of insurance products and services including property and casualty, life and health, reinsurance, surplus lines and captives. He has represented clients in acquiring, forming and licensing insurers and producers, seeking approval of rates and forms as well as enforcement and compliance matters.
Contact: Bill Megna
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Concord Management Resources (“Concord”), located in Somerset, New Jersey, has served as a healthcare plan administrator for various insurance entities, particularly MEWAs licensed throughout the United States. Concord provides insurance consulting services and management oversight to clients with regulatory filing requirements including working with state insurance departments and the department of labor for licensure filing, regulatory compliance and ongoing administrative support. Concord also serves as the complete solution for entity management providing GAAP and Statutory financial statement preparation and filing, budgeting and treasury functions, product design, rate filing and reserve setting (in coordination with actuaries), sales and small group client services. Concord has established several Association/MEWA health plans, as well as many Single Employer Trust arrangements in multiple states over the past 20+ years and has built the expertise and infrastructure to support the needs of these plans so that the plans do not have to have the significant overhead and direct start-up costs of management and staffing. Concord leverages the strengths of its staff to support all our health plans to lower overall administration expenses.
Contact: John McSorley
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Strategic Underwriting Solutions, LLC ("SUS") located in Green Bay, Wisconsin is a premier underwriting and risk management company formed to offer high quality health insurance underwriting provided as an outsource service to insurance companies, Third Party Administrators (TPA), Managed Care Organizations (MCO) and other risk taking entities, such as Multiple Employer Welfare Associations (MEWA). Veronica Schmelzer and key industry partners formed this organization specifically to respond to a market need for risk taking entities where they have all the pieces in place, e.g. efficient processing, distribution, clinical expertise, all of the needed positive factors except for highly qualified and capable medical underwriting and risk management.
SUS, LLC will provide customized service levels dependent upon the client's needs and will be as visible or invisible to the client's sales force as the client wishes. Where appropriate, SUS, LLC will utilize its own proprietary risk manual and formulas, developed with industry partners. The primary goal of SUS, LLC is to assist their clients and partner companies in writing the highest potential volume of profitable new business while retaining a stable block of inforce business. SUS manages risk of health
Contact: Veronica Schmelzer, FLMI HIA SICS
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OCA has been in business since 1983 with a primary goal of simply helping people. At the request of a benefit client asking us to handle the group’s FSA, we began providing Cafeteria Plan services in 1986 and moved full-time into the TPA world in 2008. Expanding our services over the past 20 years, we have added HRA, HSA, COBRA, retiree billing, Transit & Parking, and ERISA compliance services to our portfolio. With a staff of close to 50, we serve almost 4,000 employers and over 150,000 employees throughout the country. We’ve earned the reputation that we are industry leaders when it comes to stewardship and guidance for a population who “don’t know what they don’t know” about the regulations that govern account based plans.
Our focus has always been to provide the delicate balance of maintaining Plan compliance with the delivery of first class service though our emphasis on consumer education, communication and integration of state of the art technology. As a market leader, we have partnered with MEWAs to serve as their back office for our value added services resulting in enhanced retention for the MEWA, lower employer costs and ease of use advantages for the participants.
Contact: Stephen S. Honig, CFCI
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Windsor Strategy Partners is an actuarial and strategic consulting firm specializing in healthcare, headquartered in Princeton, NJ. Our goal is to build long-term relationships with our clients by helping them understand and manage the financial consequences of risk decisions.
WSP has deep expertise and experience working with clients in the self-funded, managed care and MEWA arenas. Our team of actuaries, analysts, underwriters and business experts bring a wide range of experience to help our clients manage their business and grow profitably. Windsor Strategy Partners also works closely with our sister company, Windsor Strategy Solutions to bring actuarial models and accessible innovative tools to all participants in our industry.
Contact: David Wilson, FSA, MAAA; Timothy Robinson, FSA, MAAA, John Marshall, FSA, MAAA or Paul Fallisi, FSA, MAAA Phone Number: