Heathy Business Matters: The Missing Rail: How to Move Plan Dollars in Direct Contracting Deals
Healthy Business Matters by Dr. Andrew White
Episode notes
Direct contracting stalls when nobody can move the money. Cory Morin explains how BenjiCard's pre-funded virtual cards pay providers at point of service, save plans money, and cut member costs.
In This Episode:
- Cory's path from insurance sales to fintech
- BenjiCard: pre-funded virtual Visa cards for TPAs, health plans, cost containment partners
- Virtual-only cards via Apple Pay/Google Pay; no physical cards
- Guardrails: U.S.-only, healthcare merchant codes, spending caps, provider locking
- Tier-zero/tier-one use case: waived member cost for pre-negotiated providers
- Next up: combining member cost-share and plan payment into one transaction
- Mostly TPA/health plan distribution, some direct-to-employer
Key Insights:
- Payment mechanics ...
Keywords
self-funded health plansdirect contractingplan asset managementcost containment