Apta Healthcare Blog

Smiles per hour. That’s the cost of riding bikes. If you’ve ridden a bike, you’ve probably had the experience of traveling farther on two wheels compared to how far you would go on two feet. When you pedal forward you are multiplying the distance your feet can travel. For example, taking a step only gets you as far as your foot can reach, but a bicycle can coast along a flat surface with relatively little resistance to motion. Pretty cool and highly efficient. 

Chocolate soufflé. Even the most experienced chefs have a hard time making the perfect soufflé. It’s a dish famously known for its level of technicality as well as food expertise, so jumping in the kitchen to whip this up is no cakewalk. If you thought you were reading an insurance blog but turned into a foodie’s daydream of dark chocolate, bear with me, I promise there’s a point. Health insurance is a lot like baking a cake. The right recipe and ingredients make all the difference. So, if traditional insurance was a plain chocolate cake, self-funded plans are a chocolate soufflé. A little more technical but a lot more rewarding.

Englewood, Colo., April 21, 2020

When it comes to healthcare, there are many ways of delivering the best patient care and support. These days, multiple people may be involved in this objective — from case managers, to health coaches, to healthcare coordinators.

If you head up an employee health plan program, you’ve no doubt thought about implementing a health and wellness program in conjunction with your company’s healthcare benefit. Or maybe you already have a company wellness program and want to improve it. For many, this type of offering is essential to employee well-being and happiness on the job, but few programs actually deliver the results employers hope to achieve.

You may already realize that Care Coordination offers impressive cost savings and benefits solutions for companies struggling with the ever-increasing cost of health care coverage. However, the impact this powerful healthcare option has on your employees’ health and wellness cannot be overlooked.

With candidates battling to satisfy the needs of their constituents in this Presidential election season, the topic of healthcare is coming up regularly. In fact, it’s tied for second place (after the economy) in the list of issues Americans are most concerned with in 2016, according to a Gallup poll.