edHEALTH is nimble, dependable, and an innovative partner.

We control healthcare costs and do so much more as part of edHEALTH. What I find unique is the collaboration among other like-minded schools to uncover new opportunities that will benefit our faculty and staff on multiple levels.

Over the past 11 years, edHEALTH has generated significant faculty and staff healthcare cost savings, enabling colleges and universities to reallocate more money to the core business of education, while also keeping employees’ costs in check. Beyond cost savings, the edHEALTH population health initiatives improve care for employees and family members dealing with complex medical conditions. In addition to achieving attractive healthcare rates, edHEALTH began distributing dividends to member schools in April 2015, years sooner than expected. Now, with a growing number of participating schools, edHEALTH is poised for growth and has scaled up to serve educational institutions across the country.

It is the culmination of a major strategic initiative for our school. Several years ago, we took the initial step by shifting from a fully insured to a self-insured medical plan to hold down rapidly increasing healthcare costs that threatened our institution as well as our employees. This first move worked out great for us, but we always knew that as a single employer with 375 employees, we lacked the necessary scale and resources, so the next logical step was to join a captive to share risk across a much larger pool of employees. We evaluated several and found edHEALTH to be by far the best fit for our needs, including offering significant savings with minimal disruption to our employees. Our incentives are fully aligned, the health plans are already well designed to serve faculty and staff and their families just like ours, and we can take advantage of innovative best practices with a proven track record of more than 10 years. We are excited to help other independent schools leverage and benefit from our experience and join this growing network of educators working together to solve a pressing need that we all face.

Working with edHEALTH gave me a renewed appreciation for true partnership. Together, this coalition has experienced direct costs savings and better risk planning with minimal disruption to participants. They are a model of the positive change we can make when you link thought provoking and progressive ideas with the drive to implement them.