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About Meritain Health

Health care costs continue to soar out of control.  Health care expenses for corporate employers have increased 16% over the last three years.  At current trend, a 1,000 employee company can expect to spend approximately $45 million on health benefits over the next five years.  Smart benefit planning and execution have truly become strategic imperatives.

Incremental measures to minimize costs do nothing to address the fundamental issues which threaten to drive health benefits to unsustainable price levels.  Simply stated, the current health care system does not encourage or empower employees to become better health care consumers.  Mid-sized companies in particular are in health care jeopardy - they do not typically receive the attention and resources necessary to pursue short-term cost controls and to engineer a path to affoardable health care in the longer term. 

The Meritain Health Difference

Employers should not have to choose between large, inflexible managed care companies who offer poor service but good cost management capabilities and smaller TPAs who provide personalized service but with moderate cost management capabiliites.  In both cases, service providers have generally done a poor job helping their clients plan to manage costs in the longer term. 

Meritian Health is committed to providing our clients with all of the services they expect as well as the resources to help them manage the long-term costs of their health benefit programs.  We understand that by having a focus on current and future health care costs, we provide the most value for our clients.

Recent studies have shown that 70% of heatlh care costs can be attributed to lifestyle-related illness and therefore are preventable.

At Meritain Health, we believe that the only way to change the rising trend in health care costs is to change the behavior of employees - to promote healthier lifestyles and make them better health care consumers.  As an industry leader in Consumer-Directed Health Care, we provide the education and tools necessary to change consumer health care behavior.  Our goal is to understand and service individual health care needs, while providing the motivation and programs necessary to achieve health care goals.

We also believe that having the size and strength to help clients manage short and long-term cost management programs does not diminish the importance of providing an excellent customer experience to our clients and their employees.  To the contrary, we are committed to using our size and strength to offer our clients and members a personal, intimate and caring experience.