Active Design & Private Exchanges

It's the second-to-last episode of HealthCare Consumerism Radio for 2015, and hosts Andrew Dietz and Doug Field are live in the studio with special guests from Perkins + Will and Maestro Health. 

The first guest will be Brenda Smith, an associate principal with Perkins + Will, an interdisciplinary, research-based architecture and design firm founded on the belief that design has the power to transform lives and enhance communities. In this segment, Brenda will join the hosts in a comprehensive discussion on Active Design. How your office environment is outfitted has a dramatic impact on the adoption of healthy, active choices by your workforce. Active Design is defined as the promotion of workforce wellness, physical activity and healthy food access through thoughtful office design.  Active Design is about getting your workforce in motion. Health-conscious business leaders are now asking their corporate interiors experts and architects to build opportunities into everyday workspaces that get employees out of their seats, into circulation and back in shape. If sitting is the new smoking, Active Design is the new reality of wellness in the workplace.

The second guest on the show will be Jeff Yaniga, the chief revenue officer at Maestro Health. Forty-one percent of people spend 15 minutes or less choosing their benefits plan, compared to 10 hours researching a new car, five hours planning a vacation or two hours shopping for a TV. The health care enrollment experience has come a long way in the past decade alone, but consumers are in need of a more personalized experience to support an informed decision and best-fit benefits choice based on their unique needs. Utilizing a private exchange to provide employee benefits, employers are able to better tailor their offerings to give their employees more choice, cost transparency and better education on how to utilize their selection.