Webinars
What if Better Care Was Your Secret Cost Control Strategy?
Published June 15, 2026
Read that title again. Better care. It’s simple, it’s fairly intuitive, and it's effective. Yet, most health plans have zero power to pull it off. Why? Because legacy carriers are structurally restricted to playing an administrative role—they can't actually influence the delivery of care.
While the rest of the industry braces for a brutal 9.5% cost trend spike, Firefly Health's clinically-integrated plan realized a 15%+ total cost of care savings across our entire 2025 ASO book of business
In this on-demand thought leadership session hosted by HR Daily Advisor, Firefly Health’s executive team joins former Honeywell benefits VP, Brian Marcotte, to unpack a blueprint that completely flips this broken dynamic.
30-second recap:
Here is the harsh reality of why your traditional plan is failing to control costs:
- The system is rigged for volume: Traditional PPOs are financially incentivized to do more, not what is clinically best. This continuous cost trend spike is a legacy infrastructure working exactly how it was designed.
- Cost-shifting backfires: Relying on high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) to curb utilization doesn't save money; it simply forces employees to ration essential, proactive care until it turns into a high-cost catastrophe.
- Standalone navigation fails: Employees do not interact with the healthcare ecosystem frequently enough to act as sophisticated consumers. True cost control requires a trusted clinical "home base" care team, which is how Firefly achieves an 85% referral adherence rate to high-value, data-verified specialists.