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Public Dollars, Private Prices
Two numbers every Indiana public official should be able to recite, three years of renewals in one paragraph, and why the second largest expense in the budget earned a permanent exemption from the discipline applied to asphalt.
By Andrew Dezelan · 46 North Benefit Advisors
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Placeholder body copy. Indiana units of government put paving contracts, bond counsel, engineering, and audit services out to bid on a schedule. The second largest line in most budgets, employee benefits, routinely renews for a decade without an independent market test. This section will carry the client’s account of how that happened.
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Placeholder body copy. This section will cover the three-year renewal record and the consolidating carrier map. Every figure the client supplies here should carry its source inline, consistent with the method.
Placeholder body copy. This section will cover hospital pricing in Indiana relative to Medicare, and what that means for a self-funded unit that has never audited its network discount.
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Placeholder body copy. This section will cover pharmacy: how the contract language moves money, and why a rebate that is called an administrative credit is not a rebate.
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