Podcast appearances · Radar

Ryan Barbieri

Executive Vice President of Employee Benefits at M3 Insurance, focused on health care cost containment strategies and benefits design for mid-to-large market employers.

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PODCASTS

Jul 9, 2026

Benefits Strategy for the Road Ahead

Jul 9 · 26m

Matt CranneyHOST

6:52

So from your vantage point, what stood out most as we were working to put together this report and in this year's momentum?

Ryan BarbieriGUEST

7:01

Probably not a surprise, but costs continue to rise and big drivers are cost of services, frequency of conditions and severity of conditions.

Ryan BarbieriGUEST

7:11

And I think the three big ones that kind of bubbled up to the surface.

Ryan BarbieriGUEST

7:15

So cancer continues to be the biggest driver that we see in claims data.

Ryan BarbieriGUEST

7:20

it's actually making up almost 26% of all claims by dollars.

Ryan BarbieriGUEST

7:24

Wow.

Ryan BarbieriGUEST

7:25

So it continues to rise.

Matt CranneyHOST

12:08

What is momentum telling us about how employers should respond to not just absorb those increases and maybe going back to that big strategic plan that we just talked about?