Risk & Business Magazine California Fall 2017 | Page 26

PURCHASING COALITIONS
Healthcare
Purchasing
Coalitions:
AN INTERVIEW WITH
MICK ROGERS
W
hen Mick Rodgers
launched the first-
ever Healthcare
Purchasing Coalition
(HPC) in 2009,
his biggest challenge was convincing
business leaders it wasn’t too good to
be true. Now, eight years later, with
four successful coalitions and growing,
unused premium returns in excess of
$3.2 million in 2016, an Employee Benefit
Adviser Magazine 2017 Adviser of the
Year award, and per employee healthcare
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benefit costs that are more than 40
percent lower than the national average,
the numbers speak for themselves. But
what exactly is an HPC? And, how does an
organization participate?
Rudy Garcia, president of Qandun
Insurance, sat down with Mick to learn
more about HPCs, why they have become
so popular, and how organizations can get
involved.
Garcia: Mick, I should start by
congratulating you on your recent award
and by saying that seeing you in Boca
recently addressing the Employee Benefit
Adviser Magazine Annual Conference as
their 2017 Adviser of the Year, speaking
to over 400 other benefits advisers from
all over the country, was exciting. Why
do you think your Healthcare Purchasing
Coalitions are getting all this attention?
Rodgers: Thanks Rudy. That was a great
honor and thrill. The answer is easy—it’s
the results we are delivering with the
coalitions. I certainly never would have