KTP Advisors
The DVHCC has selected KTP Advisors™ (KTP) as its exclusive vendor for retiree health benefit products and services. KTP is a specialty advisory firm uniquely focused on providing consulting and advisory services to retiree health plan sponsors. Since its founding in 2002, KTP has helped Labor clients maximize the efficiency of their health care expenditures. Our focus helps us provide insights and solutions often overlooked by less specialized human resource professionals and benefits advisors. The firm’s clients include Taft-Hartley funds, municipalities, and other large employers. We pride ourselves on our independent and unbiased advice. We have no outside shareholders and we have no special or preferential relationships or contracts with any carrier, PBM, TPA or third-party. We always put our client’s interest first, even if it is contrary to our own.
KTP’s available products and services for each DVHCC Member Fund (“Member”) include:
- Review of all of Member’s existing retiree health plans.
- Understand Member’s goals and objectives related to its retiree health plans.
- Recommend plan changes, as appropriate, to meet those goals and objectives.
- Develop short-term and long-term strategies for Member’s Plans.
- Review Member’s funding methodology and contribution structure for plans.
- Initiate, manage and complete Requests For Proposals (“RFP” or “RFPs”) on behalf of Member as required to secure retiree health benefit plans and administrative services.
- Ensure competitive bidding processes with multiple vendors (when available and as appropriate, based on KTP’s business experience).
- Advise on the selection of winning RFP bidders.
- Undertake overall vendor management (carriers, health plans, PBMs, TPAs, etc.) and oversight for plans.
- Seek risk avoidance, transfer or removal techniques to shield Member’s balance sheet as appropriate.
- Provide guidance on regulatory and accounting matters related to plans (but not legal advice).
- Review and negotiate related contracts for plans on behalf of Member.
- Manage implementation for plans.
- Evaluate and negotiate renewal terms and rates for plans.
- Present updates to Member’s management team and Trustees on a periodic basis and as reasonably requested.
- Keep Member abreast of industry hot topics and technological developments, and advise whether it makes sense for Member to test/implement.
- Assist Member with marketing and communication strategies.
- Generally advise Member on all financial aspects of the plans.
KTP’s professionals combine expertise in retiree medical benefits, pharmacy benefits, pharmacogenomics, wellness and population health, gain share agreements, finance, and risk management. We have an acute understanding of the legislative, cultural and regulatory environments in which our clients operate. KTP leverages this experience and insight to help clients manage their benefit plans as efficiently as possible in order to keep the promises they have made to their retirees. KTP enables vital promises to be kept.
** ALL DVHCC MEMBERS ARE ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE COMPLIMENTARY SERVICES AND DISCOUNTED FEES FROM KTP. Please contact us for more information. **
Contact:
Nicole Allen, Vice President of Client Services
nallen@ktpadvisors.com
401-662-1079
Kate Beebe, Director of Client Services
kbeebe@ktpadvisors.com
508-954-7968
