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California Small Business COVID-19 Relief Grants

September 22, 2021

There are still a few days left before the September 30th deadline for the California Small Business COVID-19 Relief Grant program. There is a dedicated website for the program here: CAReliefGrant.com. These grants do not need to be paid back and can range from $5,000 to $25,000. If a business is in one of the following industries, …

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Suicide Prevention in the Workplace

September 22, 2021

September is Suicide Prevention Month and World Suicide Prevention Day was recognized on September 10. The LBL Group is committed to helping our clients create save workplaces that support employees across the spectrum of health needs, including mental and behavioral health. To this end, our consultant John Hansbrough was quoted by Going Digital: Behavioral Health …

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Making Health Insurance a Value Add for Private Equity Funds

September 15, 2021

A quick google search of “Health Insurance Private Equity” returns 307,000,00 results. Most of these address the impact of private equity investments from a medical economics perspective, such as videos by Dr. Eric Bricker entitled Private Equity Owning Doctor Practices or Older Doctors Selling Out to Private Equity. But much fewer discuss the impact of …

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What is a Medical Stop-Loss Captive?

September 8, 2021

In offering group health plans to employees, businesses have a lot to navigate and understand about the options presented by their benefits advisor team. The smaller the employer, the fewer the options available to them, while the largest employers with thousands of employees have every vendor clamoring for their business. But the majority of businesses …

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How to Choose an Employee Benefits Advisor

September 1, 2021

Today’s competitive landscape and rapidly changing technologies are disrupting previous practices and forcing businesses to re-evaluate how and what they pay for the services they buy and the relationships they enter. Insurance and human resource services are no different. What is an Employee Benefits Advisor Before we go into more discussion, let’s first define an …

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