Our Mission

To help employers offer health plans with heart that positively impact their People, HR team and the bottom line.

We provide the insights, analytics and revolutionary benefit strategy that enables our clients to elevate their benefits, engage their members and make informed benefit decisions.

The Results

FOR YOUR MEMBERS – Lower out-of-pocket costs, high-value care, improved health outcomes and an enhanced healthcare IQ that makes them a more educated health care consumer.

FOR YOUR HR TEAM – Benefits that attract your ideal candidate, higher retention, timely benefit communications, training tools, compliance support and technology to support your benefit offerings.

FOR YOUR COMPANY – Lower health care premiums, greater access to actionable data, healthier and happier employees, increased retention and more efficient benefit team.

The Problem

Obstacles and Challenges with status quo benefit strategies

  • Limited access to the quality and price of care
  • Member OOP costs are unaffordable
  • Employer costs are unsustainable
  • Healthcare steers members towards low-value care
  • Artificial inflation justifies excessive premiums
  • Employers have limited access to actionable data
  • Unprincipled PBM contracts increase Rx costs by 25-40%
  • Limited Access to Primary Care
  • Low member healthcare IQ

The Solution

Group Planners Inc. helps our clients build a High-Performance Health Plan

  • Reduces Member OOP
  • Helps members access high-value care
  • Eliminates unnecessary care
  • Enhances member healthcare IQ
  • Reduces total Rx costs by 25-40%
  • Enhances care management for members
  • Provides HR team with actionable data
  • Enhanced benefit administration
  • Customizable to meet the needs of your team and your members

BritePath by Group Planners

Enhanced Benefits. Improved Outcomes. Reduced Costs.

We created BritePath to set employers and their members free. Free of the misaligned incentives that plague an overpriced and over complicated healthcare and insurance system. A system that thrives off of uninformed patients and members. Employers and their member are paying a significant price. BritePath can save employers and their members 25-40% while they enjoy enhanced benefits, improved outcomes and lower insurance costs for years to come.

Elements of a BritePath Health Plan

At Group Planners Inc., we help employers customize a high-performance health plan that reduces healthcare spend while ensuring members receive best-in-class benefits.

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Eliminates obstacles to value-based primary care

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Empowers members to make informed healthcare decisions and rewards them with lower out-of-pocket costs

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Provides members with resources to locate high-value care and lowest cost prescriptions

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Reduces a company’s heathcare spend and as a result the insurance risk and premiums

Components of a BritePath Health Plan

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BritePath Analytics is the foundation of any group health insurance plan.  This resource enables GPI to extract detailed claims data on any fully-insured group health plan.  Armed with medical and Rx claims data, CFO’s and HR Directors are able to assess risk, identify savings opportunities, negotiate renewals and explore alternative funding options..

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BritePath Elevate is where technology, transparency and plan design meet.  The outdated singularly focused insurance plan is transformed into a high-performance health plan capable of ensuring members have the guidance they so desperately need to make informed health care decisions.  Think of it as everything you love about your current plan plus everything it’s missing.

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BritePath Insights is the process of sharing the analytical data with alternative carriers, TPA’s, Stop Loss carriers, Pharmacy Benefit Managers and other cost control solution partners to determine to what extent they are currently overpaying to medical and Rx care.  Then taking the results and presenting our clients and prospects with an easy to understand benefit package, savings analysis and three to five year benefit strategy.

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BritePath Engage provide the positive incentive that members need to make sure every opportunity to avoid unnecessary and costly care is possible. Reducing or eliminating member OOP costs has the compounding impact of lowering premiums and increasing moral.

Testimonials

The BP Group

‘We have worked with Lou Bernardi and Group Planners Inc. for the past 20 plus years. Lou is innovative and a forward thinker at renewal time. He finds ways to keep our health costs down with pro-active programs for our employees. Most agents would not answer their phone while on vacation or on weekends. He has never let us down, I highly recommend Louis Bernardi and his team!’

Nancy Falco

General Manager

The BP Group

Group Planners Inc.
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Nancy Falco

General Manager

The BP Group

‘We have worked with Lou Bernardi and Group Planners Inc. for the past 20 plus years. Lou is innovative and a forward thinker at renewal time. He finds ways to keep our health costs down with pro-active programs for our employees. Most agents would not answer their phone while on vacation or on weekends. He has never let us down, I highly recommend Louis Bernardi and his team!’

Able Equipment Rental

‘Group Planners has been a wonderful business partner over the years. The team has been invaluable in navigating the ever changing benefit landscape.  They are always available to listen to respond to our needs in an almost effortless manner.  They have helped to keep our health care costs in check during a time when others are dealing with skyrocketing costs.  In addition, Group Planners seem to have their fingers on the pulse of all the latest and greatest benefits. Each solution they have proposed has offered a cost benefit as well as employee benefit!  I recommend them highly to any company who wants to offer great benefits without breaking the bank.’

Mindi Parrot

Director of Human Resources

Group Planners Inc.
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Mindi Parrot

Director of Human Resources

‘Group Planners has been a wonderful business partner over the years. The team has been invaluable in navigating the ever changing benefit landscape.  They are always available to listen to respond to our needs in an almost effortless manner.  They have helped to keep our health care costs in check during a time when others are dealing with skyrocketing costs.  In addition, Group Planners seem to have their fingers on the pulse of all the latest and greatest benefits. Each solution they have proposed has offered a cost benefit as well as employee benefit!  I recommend them highly to any company who wants to offer great benefits without breaking the bank.’

Qosina Corp.

All you need to know about healthcare insurance in one place with a team that will stay proactive for your employees. The team at Group Planners Inc., have always been friendly, efficient & willing to help. It’s been an incredible experience, the best part is if you have billing/claims issues, or other concerns, they will handle everything on your behalf. Can't say how happy we continue to be with their services. We like to give high accolades, they have always been extremely educational, kind, patient, & had the companies best interests at heart, whether it’s saving money or enriching a plan – they make the experience so easy. Especially since we’re a little HR Team, having them so readily available is priceless…

Amanda Bancroft - Human Resources Director

Group Planners Inc.
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2020-11-12T13:07:57+00:00

Amanda Bancroft - Human Resources Director

All you need to know about healthcare insurance in one place with a team that will stay proactive for your employees. The team at Group Planners Inc., have always been friendly, efficient & willing to help. It’s been an incredible experience, the best part is if you have billing/claims issues, or other concerns, they will handle everything on your behalf. Can't say how happy we continue to be with their services. We like to give high accolades, they have always been extremely educational, kind, patient, & had the companies best interests at heart, whether it’s saving money or enriching a plan – they make the experience so easy. Especially since we’re a little HR Team, having them so readily available is priceless…
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STRATEGIC BENEFIT PLANNING

Businesses need an advisor that does more than just shop for and service their insurance products. They need an advisor that understands health care and insurance that helps align the benefit strategy with
the long term goals of the company. In response, GPI created the BritePath approach to strategic benefit planning.

This approach consists of a three-step process that Reduces Costs, Improves Outcomes and Eliminates Misaligned Incentives. By establishing long-term goals with actionable items, we are able to help our clients build a sustainable benefit strategy that helps them become the employer of choice.

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HR Support and Vendor Management

HR has the heaviest workload of any professional.  Hiring, firing, onboarding, open enrollment and qualifying events are a never-ending cycle.  Technology can make the job more efficient and effective but vetting the endless vendors can be a challenge in itself.

GPI advisors assist your management and executive staff to identify the right resources, tools, experts, and vendors to get the job done right.  GPI advisors meet with you on site to educate and guide you through the healthcare system.

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Insurance Products

At the core of GPI’s solutions are the insurance products that provide the first level of protection for your people related to healthcare, dental, financial and personal risks.

Our full array of products fit seamlessly into your benefits strategy always with the well-being of your people in mind, as well as your companies long term business strategy.  Learn more about the insurance products.

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Engagement and Education

Healthcare and insurance are confusing.  Couple this with the lack of transparency regarding the quality and price of care and it is a recipe for disaster.  Healthcare is the leading cause of bankruptcy in the US.  It doesn’t have to be this way.

GPI believes educating our members allows us to deliver a huge return on your investment for our team.  Your members are able to navigate the healthcare maze, reduce their costs and lower your health insurance spend.  This results in lower turnover and a happier and healthier workforce.