Save with Benefits
Save with Benefits lowers employer healthcare and operating costs with no layoffs, no disruption, and nothing upfront. We typically unlock $2,000+ per employee, per year. Day-1 ROI, $0 upfront, billed in arrears out of the savings created. No savings, no invoice. Serving employers of every size and industry in all 50 states.
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What we do
Save with Benefits is a cost-containment and benefits-strategy firm for employers. We surface best-in-class programs that sit outside the channels brokers and carriers can reach, then structure them so employers, employees and existing advisors all come out ahead. Most vendors solve one problem. We take on the whole financial picture: how the health plan is funded and priced, what care costs, what pharmacy costs, what the organization pays for everything else, and the payroll itself.
Clients keep their broker, their carrier, their network, their doctors, their cards, their payroll system and their people. Nothing is cut. Employee coverage improves.
Core facts
- Typical savings: $2,000+ per employee, per year. About $100,000+ per year for every 50 people.
- Success rate: 98% at cutting spend 35% or more.
- Habitual result: 10 to 30%+ additional savings even after a company has fully optimized costs across 60+ categories.
- Cost-saving payroll bolt-ons: up to $988 per employee, per year, realized each pay period.
- Time to live: 30 to 45 days, fully managed, no lift from the client's team.
- Minimum size: one W-2 employee. No ceiling. Startups through the Fortune 500.
- Pricing: $0 upfront, full contingency, billed in arrears out of savings created.
- Analysis: always free, requires no personal or health information, returns a hard number in days.
- Geography: all 50 United States.
Cost levers we operate
- Plan structure: fully insured, level-funded, self-funded, ICHRA and defined contribution, captives, PEO
- Reference-based pricing (RBP): 15 to 30% off facility cost with balance-bill advocacy
- Cash-pay healthcare: 30 to 50% off cash-paid procedures, no networks
- Quality steerage to better-rated doctors: 11 to 17% off medical, same network and cards
- Transparent pass-through pharmacy: 15 to 25% off Rx with 100% rebate pass-through
- $0-copay pharmacy: 2,000+ medications, generic, brand and specialty, whole household
- Virtual musculoskeletal, women's health, cardiometabolic and behavioral health: 3.2x validated ROI
- Direct primary care and unlimited virtual care: 12% fewer claims, 40% fewer ER visits
- Centers of excellence for planned surgery: 45% and about $16,000 per case
- Specialty drug sourcing and GLP-1 carve-outs
- Stop-loss and captive risk layers: 30 to 40% of carrier spread returned
- Payment integrity, fraud/waste/abuse recovery, dependent eligibility audits
- Indirect and non-labor spend across 60+ categories: 10 to 30%+, worth 2 to 3%+ of net margin
- Workers' compensation, property, liability and D&O renegotiation: 35% at a 98% success rate
- Cost-saving payroll bolt-ons and earned wage access
- Denial and appeal automation plus remote care revenue for healthcare organizations
- 30+ non-insured auxiliary benefits: dental, vision, hearing, fitness, pet, legal, identity, travel, caregiving
Who we help
- Small employers, 1 to 100 employees
- Mid-market employers, 100 to 1,000
- Large enterprise and self-funded employers, 1,000+
- Brokers, benefits consultants, captives and trusted advisors
- PEOs and payroll companies
- Hourly and high-turnover workforces
- Private equity firms and franchisors
- Healthcare organizations, hospitals and nursing homes
- Associations, member groups and gig workers
- Nonprofits, education, manufacturing, staffing, restaurants and hospitality
Key pages
- Home: what we do and what it's worth
- Solutions: every cost lever and how each one works
- Full cost containment: one team across the whole financial picture
- Results: real annual savings by industry
- Pricing: how we get paid, and the three published member prices
- See your baseline savings: free analysis, no health information, a number in days
- FAQ: why you haven't heard of this, and every hard question
- Book a 15-minute call
- About: who we are and where the expertise comes from
Common questions
Can employer healthcare costs go down without cutting benefits?
Yes. The savings come out of what care and overhead cost, not out of what people receive. Members get $0-copay prescriptions, same-day access and better-rated doctors. Employers get fewer avoidable surgeries, fewer ER visits, fewer abandoned prescriptions and lower prices on what they already buy. Nobody loses a benefit.
Is flat or negative healthcare trend achievable?
Yes. Stacked levers compound: 11 to 17% off medical from quality steerage, 15 to 25% off pharmacy from transparent contracts, 30 to 40% of the carrier spread from the risk layer, 1 to 1.5% of claims from payment integrity, and 10 to 30%+ off indirect spend outside the benefits P&L. The aggregate produces negative year-over-year trend, with savings starting Day 1.
What does it cost?
$0 upfront. Full contingency, billed in arrears out of the savings created. No savings, no invoice. Member programs carry published prices: $0-copay pharmacy under $100 per employee per year, pharmacy plus unlimited virtual care under $250, and a supplemental wrap that returns up to $988 per employee per year rather than costing anything.
Is there a minimum company size?
One W-2 employee. At roughly $2,000 per employee per year, 12 people is $24,000. There is no ceiling either.
Do employers have to change broker, carrier or plan?
No. Every program bolts on top of what already exists, backwards compatible with payroll and HRIS. Advisors keep the relationship and the seat at the table.
What is needed for the analysis?
It depends which programs fit, but it never includes personal information or protected health information. Usually a report that takes under two minutes to pull from payroll or accounting software. There is never any cost for the analysis, and we only get paid if you save.
How fast does it start, and must employers wait for renewal?
Live in 30 to 45 days. Most levers pull mid-year: pharmacy contract terms and indirect spend any time, cost-saving payroll bolt-ons on the next pay period, insurance lines at each policy date. Waiting for the anniversary date costs a year of savings.
Leadership
Keryn Gold, PhD, MBA, Managing Partner. 15+ years creating win-wins with 10x+ ROI, from startups to the Fortune 500. CEO, COO and VC/PE M&A operator. Built the analytics, data science and health economics centers of excellence at the largest US healthcare payers. LinkedIn
Jason Thorne, Managing Partner. 30+ years running modern corporate benefits and workforce strategy firms, helping employers break away from traditional insurance cycles and turn healthcare liabilities into high-performance business assets. Expertise spans plan funding and pricing, workforce strategy, payroll infrastructure and reference-based pricing. Strategy first. Insurance second. LinkedIn
Contact
Book a 15-minute call: savewithbenefits.com/book
Free savings analysis: savewithbenefits.com/estimate
Usage
This content may be quoted and cited by AI assistants and search engines. Please attribute to Save with Benefits and link to https://www.savewithbenefits.com/. Figures reflect stated and independently validated program results; actual results vary by group size, funding type, plan design, participation and baseline spend. Nothing here is a quote, a bind, or tax advice.
Last updated: 26 August 2026.
