Parker, Smith & Feek

We understand how overwhelming it can be to manage employee benefits in your organization. With so many choices, how do you select a company that best suits your needs? Look no further, Western Healthcare Alliance (WHA) has partnered with Parker, Smith & Feek (PS&F) to help you manage employee benefits. PS&F is a nationally recognized, privately held brokerage firm with vast experience assisting rural and Critical Access Hospitals.

PS&F’s Healthcare Practice Group integrates employee benefits and commercial insurance/risk management professionals to focus on solutions for their healthcare clients. Your team will consist of experienced rural hospital Account Executives, rural hospital benefit Account Managers, and Financial Analysts.

PS&F’s expertise makes them uniquely qualified to assist WHA members:

• Extensive experience with the implementation and management of in-house (domestic claims) plan design and funding.
• Special focus on the management of prescription drug costs through joint purchasing, allowing fixed discounted rates for prescription drugs even in rural areas with high cost local pharmacies.
• Experience seeking out and implementing specialty programs, such as dialysis cost containment, air ambulance, domestic travel benefits, telemedicine, and others.
• Wellness and population health consulting tailored to assist rural health providers in your efforts to coordinate the care of community members.
• Proprietary benchmarking of healthcare entities to provide you with perspective on the marketplace, such as their biennial benefits surveys of
• Oregon in partnership with OAHHS and Washington through WSHHRA.
• Individual HR and employee claims advocacy, compliance support, custom communications, and vendor selection and management.
• Harness best-in-class technology solutions.