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25 Years of Innovative
Healthcare Cost Containment
innovative cost containment solutions
for employee benefits
Custom Design
Benefits
Founded: 1991
5589 Cheviot Road,
Cincinnati, OH 45247
513.598.2929
www.CustomDesignBenefits.com
25
YEARS
Peter Landesman, Custom Design Benefits, [email protected], 513-598-3663
L
ess than 25% of new businesses survive
the first 15 years – business is hard! But,
Custom Design Benefits is celebrating the firm’s 25th anniversary this year. Julie
Mueller, President and CEO of Custom Design
Benefits (CDB) states, “Being able to sustain
a successful business over a 25-year period is
beating the average for privately-held companies. And, we are thriving because of our
employees!”
If you ask her employees though, they
will tell you that the company’s leadership is
what keeps the business stable and growing. In
fact, Custom Design Benefits has experienced
explosive growth since 2012 all because of
Mueller and her team’s willingness to challenge
the status quo.
Custom Design Benefits is Cincinnati’s
largest, independent third-party administrator
of self-funded health benefit plans and consumer driven services. Throughout these past
25 years, CDB has been working with employers and their brokers to help them navigate
the costly and difficult process of providing
healthcare benefits for their employees.
The most common solution adopted
by employers to cope with steadily rising
healthcare costs has been to shift some of those
higher costs to employees in the form of higher
deductibles and coinsurance.
Mueller and her innovative CDB team
knew there had to be a better way – and there
was! TrueCost!
Unlike most traditional and high-deduct-
ible plan designs in today’s healthcare market,
TrueCost bases provider reimbursement on
what it actually costs to deliver treatment
versus a discount on an arbitrary schedule of
billed charges. TrueCost has been able to save
CDB’s clients about 30%.
Those savings are passed directly to employees with an affordable plan design that
eliminates high deductibles and coinsurance.
They only pay an affordable co-pay and this
incents the use of primary care and less expensive care which helps to reduce healthcare costs
for employees and employers alike.
“(Our employees) are likely to save hundreds if not thousands of dollars in 2016 and
that alone buys you a lot of good will with
your company’s largest asset,” said Sandra
Melillo, Human Resources Director for ScrogginsGrear, a CDB client.
Today, businesses need to be focused on
bringing solutions to the marketplace, and
Custom Design Benefits has a history of
developing solutions that help their customers maximize the dollars they are spending
on healthcare. “We are focused on delivering
healthcare benefits that are affordable, accessible and comprehensive, while simultaneously
controlling costs”, states Mueller.
“The relationship has been a true partnership and Custom Design Benefits has
stayed engaged with us and our employees
throughout the years,” said Joe Shriver, County
Administrator for Kenton County Fiscal Court,
another CDB client.
In January 2016, Mueller assumed leadership
of CDB and she is excited to explore even more
opportunities to bring value to employers and
their employees in the healthcare benefit arena.
Julie knows that it takes a committed group
of people to make any organization successful,
and she believes that the team of professionals at
CDB are the best in town. “Our team members
are some of the most experienced people in our
business. They are the most important factor in
everything that we do.” And, Mueller makes sure
her team knows they are appreciated.
Julie is passionate about the health and wellbeing of all CDB employees and their families.
Custom Design Benefits features a wellness and
fun committee that encourages employees to
make healthy lifestyle choices. Examples include
a company-wide “know your numbers” wellness
program, on-site yoga classes, having fresh fruit
delivered by a local market, and much more.
A CDB associate said “I am part of a growing, innovative, dedicated, ambitious, driven
company that is making its mark in how to be
the best at what we do. I am appreciated and
given the opportunity to grow along with the
company. We are a family, not just a company.
We have a solid foundation and amazing leaders.”
“Our vision is to continue to be an employer
of choice while serving our clients, brokers and
community for years to come”, states Mueller.
So, we toast Julie and her team at Custom
Design Benefits – job well done!
25 Years
of Innovative
Healthcare Cost
Containment
Custom Design Benefits,
founded in 1991,
is Cincinnati’s largest,
independent third-party
administrator of self-funded
health benefit plans and
consumer driven services.
The CDB Team is proud to have served our clients, brokers and
community for 25 years and look forward to many more.