Charles Gragg
Speaker / Consultant
Employers have been conditioned to accept rising health insurance costs as inevitable—trapped in a cycle of renewal meetings, premium hikes, and limited options. But what if that hamster-wheel isn’t the only path? In His talks, Charles Gragg empowers business leaders to rethink employee health benefits, uncover hidden drivers of cost, and implement proven strategies that transform health insurance from a runaway expense into a controllable Asset. By shifting perspective and embracing innovative solutions, employers can reclaim financial stability, enhance employee well-being, and redirect resources toward sustainable growth of balance-sheet assets instead of wasted expense.
Meet Charles
Book Charles Gragg to Speak:
Charles works with employers, executives, and organizations to reduce healthcare costs, control risks, and improve outcomes without cutting employee benefits.
With over 50 years of experience in the healthcare and insurance system, Charles delivers practical, real-world strategies that help organizations transform healthcare from a rising expense into a controllable, strategic asset.
Charles is available for:
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Conferences
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Corporate Events
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Executive Briefings
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Industry Panels
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Educational Workshops
To Book Charles for Speaking engagements or consulting, use the contact form below or reach out directly.
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Plan Set-Up Support
Healthcare Solutions Roadmap:
A Journey WITH a Destination
Charles shares a 4-stage pathway that transforms the way companies envision their Healthplan solutions from premiums, plans and networks to Employee wellbeing, Human behavior, and Lifestyle support.
He shares sustainable remedies to the current system by offering a different way to "access heatlhcare," by considering "quality" of healthcare first, and value for the employee as by-product. The end result is a Win-Win for all engaged.
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Everything you thought you knew about Health Insurance turned upside-down.
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4-5 Actionable steps to get started down the path to solving your Healthcare dilemma.
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How to turn your most uncontrollable expense into a valuable, sustainable balance-sheet Asset.
How to Change the Way Employees Feel About Their Health Plan
Culture Starts with the Network
For years employers have tried to "fix" healthcare in the wrong direction. We've tinkered with benefit designs, adjusted deductibles, shifted costs and asked employees to choose plans based on guesswork about their future health care needs.
What if the problem isn't the "plan", but the "network"?
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How to balance your Health Insurance plan with Employee welfare, financial security, and long-term loyalty as outcomes, while enhancing benefits at the same time.
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3-4 must-have drivers to prevent run-away Health Plan costs
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How to securely "oversee" your Health Plan without the burden of day-to-day staff intervention, to make it work.
Fundamentals of Self-Funded Healthplans
A Broker's View
Charles shares his wealth of experience in training brokers to view healthplans as a sustainable asset for their clients (the Corporate Employer) by transforming their mindset into fiduciary roles and responsibilities in health plan design and processing. Raising the Broker/Advisor's value for long-term retention of secure customer relationships, and savings to his customers, both employer and his employees.
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How to help your client OWN his own Health Insurance Plan, and "control" it like any other Business segment that he owns.
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How to Secure your future with Every client by putting His needs and interests with Peace of Mind ahead of your own.
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How to help build transparency, trust, and employee loyalty into His health plan for good.
Benefit Solutions Consulting
If you are a C-Suite Executive, HR professional, or Benefits Advisor that feels compelled to hear more of Charles' message from a Talk, his Book, or simply more of his professional advice on How to Get started with your Hamster-Wheel solution experience, feel free to contact below at the bottom of this page for information about his services. To book a talk, order a book or need more information, or for a consultation with Charles to see if he can offer more assistance in your journey, leave your information and a representative will get back to you as soon as possible to book that call.
Best Selling Book in 3 Genres!
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Health Insurance
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Risk Management
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HR Professional Mgt.
Get Off The Hamster-Wheel:
An Employer’s Guide to Controlling His 2nd Largest Operating Expense – Employee Health Insurance
Get Off the Hamster Wheel reveals the fallacies of our modern health care system, so that CEOs, senior executives, HR professionals, benefits advisers, and employees of a corporate group health plan can slash expenses.
Charles W. Gragg, CEBS, REBC, RHU, a results-focused senior executive whose background includes leadership roles in group insurance and financial services, as well as third-party administration, addresses how to solve one of the most challenging problems in the health care economy.
The groups he highlights have all been intentionally kept in the dark regarding simple fixes to the health care system. After reading this book, however, everyone will discover how easily we can overcome problems tied to burgeoning health care costs.
The key to solving the crisis, he argues, is finding a new way to access health care for your own good. With the right tools, you can make these changes rather quickly, and the best news is that outcomes will improve overnight.
It’s time to end the same old routine by resolving an overwhelming frustration and getting off the hamster wheel.
About the
Author
Charles Gragg earned a BS degree in Business Administration from the University of Tennessee, with a concentration on Commercial and Financial Management. Further, he earned additional Insurance industry degree designations from the Wharton School and The American College. Combined with his 45-year career in the Self-Funding segment of Health Insurance, he specialized in TPA (Third Party Admistration) services, Stop-Loss Insurance, Captive Stop-Loss Insurance, and engaged in "all things cost-containment with the scope of those fields". Charles has emerged as an industry thought leader along with becoming a best-selling author in his field of work.
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