In 2026, employee benefit consultants can mitigate conflicts of interest through a combination of legal compliance, transparent fee structures, and proactive fiduciary habits: Written Compensation Disclosure: Under the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA), consultants must provide written disclosures of ALL direct and indirect compensation—including commissions, overwrites, consulting fees for ALL products [...]
In 2026, employee benefit consultants must adopt an agile mindset to navigate a volatile healthcare landscape where medical costs are projected to rise by 10% to 20% driven by insatiable healthcare inflation and the surge of high-cost innovations like GLP-1 specialty drugs. This agility requires a pivot from rigid, traditional [...]
October 9, 2024 — Agility Innovation Partners has been named to BenefitsPRO Luminaries Class of 2024 in the category of Technology & Innovation. This recognition celebrates top professionals and organizations within the benefits industry that strive to transform and humanize the field and set a bright example within the business. [...]
MINNEAPOLIS: Nice Healthcare, an innovator in in-home and virtual primary care services, has raised a $5 million Series Seed round of financing to pioneer the next phase of “Frictionless Primary Care.” The Company plans to use the funds to launch its model of care into several new markets. “For small employers like [...]
Employers looking for a way to improve their population’s primary care experience, take note: The IRS has released proposed regulations that would allow you to reimburse an employee’s membership fee for a Direct Primary Care (DPC) arrangement if the employee has a health reimbursement account (HRA). For background about DPC [...]
BROKERS, EMPLOYERS, AND OTHER HEALTHCARE STAKEHOLDERS CAN ACCESS MANUFACTURER LEVEL PRICING AND MAIL-ORDER CONVENIENCE WITHOUT THE ADDED COSTS EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. DiRx Inc. today announced it has selected Agility Innovation Partners (AgilityIP) as an authorized B2B expansion partner, to accelerate its growth within the benefits advisor community, public and private [...]
Massachusetts Health Policy Commission Report Finds Increased Spending Despite Declining VolumesCommercial inpatient healthcare spending has increased in Massachusetts despite declining volumes, reinforcing other analyses that determined price increases are driving spending growth, a new report from the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission found. Commercial inpatient spending across the commonwealth grew 10.7% [...]
AGREEMENT AIMS TO EXPAND NICE HEALTHCARE DISTRIBUTION PARTNER NETWORK BEGINNING FALL OF 2020 DENVER COLORADO: Nice Healthcare LLC today announced it has signed Agility Innovation Partners on to accelerate their national expansion and build out their sales and broker network. Under terms of the deal, AgilityIP will establish a semi-exclusive [...]
AGILITY INNOVATION PARTNERS AND FITT FINDER ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP FOCUSED ON INCREASING ACCESS TO FITNESS FOR ALL EMPLOYEES Partnership connects health tech innovations to forward-thinking corporate wellness companies, health technology companies, insurers, and employers in the emerging new healthcare ecosystem DENVER: Silicon Valley-based FITT Finder, the world’s first fitness discovery engine, today [...]
AgilityIP: Relentlessly Accelerating Healthcare Innovation DENVER, COLORADO: After months of planning, relationship-building, and groundwork, Denver-based health tech executives Drew Kallestad and Ken Sloan launched Agility Innovation Partners this week. Agility Innovation Partners (AgilityIP) is a healthcare innovation accelerator, here to connect the most promising healthcare innovators to AgilityIP’s powerful national [...]
