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		<title>The One Question That Could Save Your Employees Thousands</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I received a call from an employee at one of my client&#8217;s companies. She sounded frustrated. &#8220;Al, my doctor&#8217;s office told me they accepted our insurance&#8230; so why did I get this bill?&#8221; It turned out she&#8217;d done exactly what most people would do. Before scheduling her appointment, she called the&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>I&#8217;ve Never Seen An Aca Penalty Caused By Bad Intentions</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[A business owner said something to me recently that I&#8217;ve heard more times than I can count. He leaned back in his chair, crossed his arms, and said: &#8220;We should be okay. I think payroll handles all of that.&#8221; I didn&#8217;t answer right away. It wasn&#8217;t the word &#8220;payroll&#8221; that caught my attention. It was&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The biggest compliance risk isn&#8217;t what most employers think.</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Hidden Danger in Your Benefits Plan: The Power of Assumptions I was sitting across the table from a referred HR director recently when she smiled and said, &#8220;I think we&#8217;re in pretty good shape.&#8221; I asked a simple question. &#8220;Who handles your benefits compliance?&#8221; Without hesitation she answered, &#8220;Our carrier.&#8221; I asked another question.&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Control Claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You Can’t Control Claims—But You Are Worrying About the Wrong Variable Recently, I was sitting across from a business owner who was incredibly frustrated. His corporate health insurance renewal premiums had jumped significantly yet again, and he felt completely defeated. He looked at me and said, &#8220;Al, I just don&#8217;t know what else to do.&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Assumption is Not a Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Assumption is Not a Strategy: Are You Making Benefits Decisions with Incomplete Information? A few years ago, I sat down with a company owner who was visibly frustrated about facing yet another double-digit health insurance renewal increase. He was entirely convinced that the insurance carrier was simply squeezing his business. His exact words to me&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Silence Is Expensive</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Oyler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why a Quiet Open Enrollment is Actually a Warning Sign During open enrollment, no news is generally taken as good news. Human resources teams breathe a sigh of relief when the deadline passes without a flood of frantic emails or phone calls. But after years of managing corporate benefits programs, we have learned a hard&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Hidden Driver of Rising Healthcare Costs (And How to Fix It)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When business leaders look at their annual healthcare spend, they tend to focus on the big numbers: total claims paid, premium spikes, and renewal percentages. But here is an overlooked reality of corporate benefits management: most of the expensive decisions employees make with their health plan don&#8217;t happen when a claim is filed. They happen&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Your Insurance Renewal Meeting Lying to You? (Why Outcomes Aren&#8217;t Strategies)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Oyler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Is Your Health Insurance Renewal Meeting Lying to You? Every year, business leaders gather around a conference table for the annual health insurance renewal meeting. The atmosphere is usually a mix of anticipation and dread. But here is a hard truth about that meeting: it is lying to you a little. This isn&#8217;t because your&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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