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The Phia Group, LLC is an experienced provider of health care cost containment techniques offering comprehensive consulting services, legal expertise, plan document drafting, subrogation and overpayment recovery, claim negotiation, and plan defense designed to control costs and protect plan assets. 

  1. Empowering Plans: P233 – The Butterfly Effect of Healthcare Costs

    12/16/2025

    Empowering Plans: P233 – The Butterfly Effect of Healthcare Costs

    In this episode, Phia Group legends – CLO Ron Peck and EVP Jen McCormick – dive deep into waters rarely discussed.  They contemplate how the rising costs of healthcare impact employers and their employees in areas outside of healthcare – from hiring to counting steps.  Join them as they share insight into this, and how to get employees and their families to embrace healthcare literacy, and positively impact aspects of their lives beyond “just healthcare.”

    26 min
  2. Empowering Plans: P232 – Get Psyched: Innovative Therapies on the Rise

    12/05/2025

    Empowering Plans: P232 – Get Psyched: Innovative Therapies on the Rise

    This week on the Empowering Plans podcast, attorneys Corey Crigger and Nick Bonds dig into the growing movement to use psychedelics in treating mental health and substance use disorders. As states ramp up research and regulation, they unpack what’s driving this shift — and what health plans should watch for in a changing compliance landscape.

    26 min
  3. Empowering Plans: P231 – Are EHBs Really That “Essential”?

    11/20/2025

    Empowering Plans: P231 – Are EHBs Really That “Essential”?

    In the latest installment of The Phia Group’s “Empowering Plans” podcast, attorneys Kendall Jackson and Jon Jablon explore Essential Health Benefits – an important facet of self-funded health plans that seems straightforward, but has garnered a great deal of confusion and misconception through the years. This episode touches on the significance of state benchmark plans, the difference between EHBs and state-mandated benefits, application of EHBs to the maximum out-of-pocket limit, and more.

    17 min
  4. Empowering Plans: P230 – What Happens When Subrogation and the NSA Collide?

    11/06/2025

    Empowering Plans: P230 – What Happens When Subrogation and the NSA Collide?

    Join attorneys Bryan Dunton and Cindy Merrell as they discuss what happens when the No Surprises Act collides with subrogation. They explore the practical implications of the legislation, including how it intersects with common recovery models like “pay and chase” and “pend and pay.” This conversation offers valuable insights into how the Act may affect your approach to healthcare claims and reimbursement strategies.

    16 min
  5. Empowering Plans: P229 – From Free to Fee: The New Rules for COVID Vaccines and Testing"

    10/09/2025

    Empowering Plans: P229 – From Free to Fee: The New Rules for COVID Vaccines and Testing"

    The rules around COVID coverage are entering a new phase. attorneys Kelly Dempsey and Naga Vivekanandan as they explore how recent ACIP guidance narrows preventive coverage for COVID vaccines and what it means for both PPO and HDHP plans. They also dig into the gray areas employers face when updating plan documents and how participants may see their costs shift.

    20 min
  6. Empowering Plans: P228 – Prior Authorization – The Promise and the Peril

    09/25/2025

    Empowering Plans: P228 – Prior Authorization – The Promise and the Peril

    Attorneys Jon Jablon and Nick Bonds break down some of the issues around administering prior authorization requirements, including their use as a cost-containment tool, the procedural aspects, perceptions, and the impact that can have on plan participants. They also discuss some of the regulatory guardrails being put around prior authorizations at the state and federal levels, and some of the key questions for plan sponsors to consider when designing and implementing prior authorization requirements.

    30 min
  7. Empowering Plans: P227 – Method to the Badness

    09/12/2025

    Empowering Plans: P227 – Method to the Badness

    Join the dynamic duo of Ron Peck and Corey Crigger as they discuss the surge of equity investment into “sin” services – such as  gambling and adult entertainment – and how this is likely only one part of a bigger strategy… A strategy that ties into the same investors’ recent backing of health care providers treating conditions caused, triggered, or exacerbated by the same behaviors.  Conspiracy theory or incredible insight?  You decide!

    24 min
  8. Empowering Plans: P226 – RBP Meets NSA: Clearing Up the Confusion

    08/28/2025

    Empowering Plans: P226 – RBP Meets NSA: Clearing Up the Confusion

    In the latest episode of the Empowering Plans podcast, attorneys Jon Jablon and Kendall Jackson discuss common misconceptions surrounding RBP plans and the NSA. From protections against balance billing to the Independent Dispute Resolution process, we are covering all of the areas of the NSA that you need to consider for an RBP plan.

    23 min
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The Phia Group, LLC is an experienced provider of health care cost containment techniques offering comprehensive consulting services, legal expertise, plan document drafting, subrogation and overpayment recovery, claim negotiation, and plan defense designed to control costs and protect plan assets. 

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    2017 - 2025
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