CRC Benefits

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The CRC Benefits podcast helps brokers move faster, grow stronger, and deliver more value. Episodes cover topics like self-funded solutions, compliance, voluntary benefits, and renewal strategies, always kept brief, consultative, and actionable so you can put ideas to work right away.

CRC Benefits Podcast

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December 9, 2025

Innovative Solutions for the Small Group Market with Tiffany Stiller and UnitedHealthcare's commercial CEO Dan Kueter

We sit down with Dan Kueter, CEO of UnitedHealthcare’s commercial business, to unpack small-group cost pressures and explore how employers can counter trend with level funding and more transparent, tech-enabled benefits plan design. UnitedHealthcare’s Surest health plan offers a clear path to lower costs and a better consumer experience. In this episode, Dan gives a deep dive on how Surest is built around more than 1 million variable value-based copays that vary based on a provider’s historic...
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December 9, 2025

Innovative Solutions for the Small Group Market with Tiffany Stiller and UnitedHealthcare's Commercial CEO Dan Kueter

We sit down with Dan Kueter, CEO of UnitedHealthcare’s commercial business, to unpack small-group cost pressures and explore how employers can counter trend with level funding and more transparent, tech-enabled benefits plan design. UnitedHealthcare’s Surest health plan offers a clear path to lower costs and a better consumer experience. In this episode, Dan gives a deep dive on how Surest is built around more than 1 million variable value-based copays that vary based on a provider’s historic...

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November 11, 2025

Pretty Easy Opportunity - Why to consider PEOs

Payroll tangles, patchwork compliance, and vendor sprawl can quietly drain a growing company. We sit down with CRC’s PEO leaders, Rob Schlossberg and Ari Wind, to map out when a professional employer organization unlocks simpler operations, stronger benefits, and fewer risks—and when it doesn’t. If your clients have multi-state teams, rising admin load, or employees asking for richer plans like IVF and modern voluntary benefits, this is a practical guide to the trade-offs that matter. We bre...

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October 23, 2025

ICHRA: A Smarter Way to Offer Benefits

If the phrase one-size-fits-all makes you wince, this conversation will feel like a breath of fresh air. We sit down with Patti Reimer to unpack how Individual Coverage HRAs (ICHRAs) turn rigid group plans into flexible, budget-friendly benefits that employees actually want to use. Instead of forcing everyone into the same carrier and network, ICHRAs let employers set a defined contribution while employees choose plans that match their doctors, hospitals, and prescriptions no matter where the...

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September 9, 2025

Breaking Down the One Big Beautiful Bill

Ready for a healthcare shake-up? The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), signed into law on July 4, 2025, is set to reshape how Americans access and manage healthcare for years to come. In this first episode of the CRC Benefits Podcast, Misty Baker, CRC Benefits Director of Compliance, walks through the bill’s journey and breaks down four key provisions every benefits professional needs to know right now: Permanent telehealth for HSA participants – removing barriers to virtual careDependent C...