Volume 41

Contents RURAL HOSPITALS DISCOVER PANDEMIC SILVER LINING HILL COUNTRY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL WINS TORCH LIGHT AWARD 5 TIPS FOR TALKING ABOUT COVID – 19 VACCINES WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY RURAL HOSPITALS DISCOVER PANDEMIC SILVER LINING Panel of CEOs Identify 6 Great Outcomes from a Not-So-Great Year by Brant Couch “Rural medicine Read more…

Volume 40

COVID crisis will eclipse any changes to ACA 5 Mental Health Employee Benefits Trends for 2021 Cyber Wars on the Rural Frontlines COVID crisis will eclipse any changes to ACA Changes to the ACA may be of little consequence in 2021 By Brant Couch, CIC, CPA Little has changed with Read more…

Volume 39

Contents   Tales from the Cyber War Trenches   CSI: Mayberry Hospital   Cybercrime and Benefits Plans   Tales from the Cyber War Trenches Evolving attacks do more than digital damage By Brant Couch, CIC, CPA “If we ever have to pay a ransom, I will cut my throat.” – Read more…

Volume 38

Contents   True Grit in the Face of a Pandemic   It’s happening again! HealthSure Welcomes New Team Member: Michael Patti   DOL Releases More Q&As on Workplace Laws and Coronavirus   Cyber War Survivors Tell Their Tale   True Grit in the Face of a Pandemic Three Rural Hospitals, Read more…

Volume 36

Contents   Three Welcoming Waypoints on the Rural Healthcare Journey   Make Your Resolutions Mean Something   IRS Issues a New W-4   Here We Grow Again! HealthSure Welcomes New Team Members   Three Welcoming Waypoints on the Rural Healthcare Journey By Brant Couch, CIC, CPA How far will you Read more…

Volume 34

Contents   15 Years and Counting – Congratulations Brant!   Rural Hospitals Declaring Their Independence   Join us for Don’t Go It Alone: Direct Contracting and Custom Networks Change the Game   Have you seen this person?   15 Years and Counting- Congratulations Brant HealthSure CEO Brant Couch celebrated his Read more…

Volume 33

Contents   It’s Time to Take (Rural) Matters into Your Own Hands!   Phishing Can Get You Hooked!   Congratulations to Peterson Regional Medical Center   Have you seen this person?   It’s Time to Take (Rural) Matters into Your Own Hands! Learn from big hospital systems and never go Read more…

Volume 32

Contents   Will Your Employee Risk Playbook Be the Death of Your Hospital?   Innovative Risk Collaboration Drives Bottom Line Success   Rural Health Radio: A Conversation with Brant Couch   Have you seen this person?   Will Your Employee Risk Playbook Be the Death of Your Hospital? You might Read more…

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Take the Community Hospital Insurance Coalition (CHIC) for example. With our expert support and management, more than 30 rural hospitals who have come together to own this medical stop-loss reinsurance company. They are paying less for their insurance, improving benefits program performance, and receiving their share of a significant annual surplus cash distribution (~$2.5 million since inception in 2018).