Advanced Benefit Design Institute is a subsidiary of Group Agent Resources, LLC. Circa 2008. Scott Hettesheimer began his insurance career in February 1977. Scott Hettesheimer’s focus on consumed healthcare costs began in 2008. Recovering millions of dollars for employers from hospitals, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, and administrators overcharging for healthcare is phase 1. Healthcare overcharging exceeded $ 1.2 trillion in 2022.

If you are searching for Healthcare Claim Auditing Services to audit your group’s consumed healthcare spending, it is time to audit your vendors and re-adjudicate all claims dating back 36 months. Our “auditing has no vendor bias. Uncovering areas of fraud, overcharging, abuse, or theft is the first step to getting on the right track. This is what we do.

Scott Hettesheimer, “The Consulting Authority,” and President of Advanced Benefit Design Institute. Mr. Hettesheimer spent four decades in the trenches, helping employers navigate benefits and custom-crafting unique tactics that improved benefit satisfaction and reduced consumed healthcare. ABDI has an incredible Team of Consultants and Associates, sought-after by CEOs and CFOs.

I share what I’ve learned in my career as a Broker, appointed by the Governor of Ohio in 1999 as an Ohio Summit Delegate, NAHU Legislative Chair with a “Lifetime Achievement” award in 1996, National event speaker, and an Amazon #1 Best Seller Author, 2023.

Scott Hettesheimer’s focus on reducing consumed healthcare costs began in 2008. Eliminating millions of dollars from plan sponsors’ consumed healthcare, charged by hospitals, pharmacy benefit managers, and administrators.

If you are searching for a Healthcare Cost Reduction plan or a cost recovery specialist, Advanced Benefit Design Institute has the cure. The Healthcare Claim Auditing Services audits your group’s consumed healthcare, assessing all vendors and re-adjudicating all claims going back 36 months. The results determined are then pursued for recovery. The “auditing” has no vendor bias. Uncovering areas of fraud, overcharging, abuse, and theft is the first step to getting on the right track. This is what we uniquely do.

Advanced Benefit Design Institute is a subsidiary of Group Agent Resources, LLC. Circa 2008

Maria Todd – Webinar Speaker Biosketch

Maria Todd is a nationally recognized healthcare strategist with over 40 years of experience helping self-funded employers, unions, and TPAs reduce health plan spending through surgical redirection, episode-of-care design, and direct provider contracting.

She is the architect behind a redirection strategy that has saved over $40 million in claims costs across just 300 surgical cases in the past 36 months, without PEPM (per employee per month) fees, rigid contracts, or add-on administrative charges. Her model enables employers to bypass traditional PPO markups and leverage direct, all-inclusive bundled case rates from accredited, high-performance providers.

Maria also designed Bundlr™, a proprietary tool used by providers to develop and maintain defensible, transparent pricing and protect price integrity, ensuring that what’s quoted is what gets paid.

She is the founder of Alacrity Healthcare, a holding company that owns and operates multiple healthcare businesses, including a management services organization (MSO), a provider network, and technology assets that support bundled case pricing and surgical episode coordination. Maria has authored over 30 books on managed care contracting, medical travel, and health plan redesign.

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