Tuesday Morning With Justin: Healthcare, Leadership & Life
Fascinating people, innovative healthcare ideas & opportunities for personal and professional growth. I'm a Benefit Advisor on the quest to impact millions of lives. Want to come along for the ride? Let's grow together. In Fall 2021, Justin was highlighted as one of the "Faces of Change" for bringing transparency and innovation to health care by the national editorial BenefitsPro. Justin is a Certified Self Funding Specialist and his team primarily consults for companies with 100 - 1,000 employees. Philanthropist, triathlete, professional speaker and lifelong learner. Find A Way!
Tuesday Morning With Justin: Healthcare, Leadership & Life
Latest Episodes
Fertility Benefits & The Challenges that Follow
A single benefits question can reveal everything about how an organization leads: should a self-funded health plan cover infertility treatment? My gut says yes, because infertility is personal, exhausting, and often one of the hardest seasons a...
International Sourcing Rule Change
A quiet customs rule change can create loud consequences when it touches prescription drug access. I’m Justin Futrell, a Benefit Advisor at TrueNorth Companies, and I’m flagging an important update for employers and members who use internationa...
Waiting For Certainty Makes Your Health Plan Worse
We challenge the habit of postponing healthcare decisions and explain why waiting almost always makes costs and outcomes worse. We walk through a simple business analogy and a real client example that shows how access to care changes the entire...
Two Incentives That Quietly Inflate Your Premiums
We get fired up about why healthcare costs keep climbing and zoom out to the two foundational incentive problems that distort pricing. We connect the dots between insurer profit math, PBM ownership, and a real pharmacy cost example that shows h...
Are You Paying For Bloodwork Or Paperwork;
We build on the idea of direct primary care as the front door to healthcare and connect it to a surprisingly simple place to save money fast: routine lab work. We unpack why common tests get billed at hundreds of dollars when the real cost can ...
