Bob Gearhart

About Bob Gearhart

Wages and benefits are the most important criteria manufacturing employees consider when looking for new employment. How does your company stack up against your competitors?Typically, the way manufacturers’ manage healthcare purchasing involves choosing the ‘least bad option’ from a variety of carriers who are all presenting a premium increase over the previous plan year. Manufacturers don\'t have to offer lesser benefits to keep costs in line. In fact, true cost savings only comes from improving the benefit plan design offered to employees, not shifting cost to employees for lesser benefits. That’s how DCW Group differs from the rest and how we can help your company stand out against your competition.When informing manufacturing clients of yet ANOTHER annual premium increase, brokers will commonly reference industry “trend,” or the average percentage by which health plan costs are rising each year, as a benchmark to validate their performance. The problem is, health insurance trend is a FAKE number. For years you’ve probably been told \"The claims are the claims. We can\'t do anything about the claims.\" The “typical” broker mindset is that as long as your costs don\'t go up as much as the average “trend,” then they’ve done a great job for you. Let us help you manage your costs in the most effective way possible. Did you know that 80% of your manufacturing company’s health insurance expenses are variable? Let us show you how you can save big without sacrificing the satisfaction of your employees. Message me here or shoot me an email at b••••@dcwgrp.com for a FREE, no-pressure conversation. Our Specialties: Corporate Benefits, Employee Benefits Design, Healthcare Supply Chain Management, Benefits Management, Voluntary Employee Benefits, Business Insurance Health Insurance

Experience

1. Partner

   Dcw Group

   Oct 2006 — Present · Youngstown, OH, US

   I’m responsible for continuing on our long legacy of helping manufacturers manage their healthcare supply chain to improve benefits and increase their earnings. At DCW Group, we work with clients to create predictable, repeatable, and measurable reductions in healthcare costs. We are so confident in our innovative cost-containment and medical management strategies that we will tie part of our compensation to the performance of our client’s health plans. Before many of our clients came on-board with us, they hadn’t ever viewed insurance professionals as being able to help their business grow and produce free cash flow in the process. This is because, historically, insurance professionals have never been able to manage or reduce costs. Understanding that 80% of healthcare costs can be managed allows you to find an insurance professional who can free up many thousands of dollars currently wasted by your benefit plan, that immediately goes into your free cash flow and operations. Interested in learning more benefits tips for manufacturers? Check out our blog: 2017, my son Bob Jr. contributed to the Amazon Bestselling book, “BREAKING THROUGH THE STATUS QUO: How Innovative Companies Are CHANGING THE BENEFITS GAME To Help Their Employees AND Boost Their Bottom Line.” It speaks volumes about the state of our industry that this book flew through the ranks on Amazon to bestseller status. In this book, he shared his insights to inform and guide decisions that can lower healthcare costs in group health plans.

Education

• The University of Akron

  Bachelor of Science, Industrial Management

  1980 — 1984

Skills

• Coaching
• Data Analysis
• Corporations
• Working with Brokers
• Sales
• Health Insurance
• Brokers
• Corporate Wellness
• Health Savings Accounts
• Disease Management
• Human Resources
• Program Management
• Disability Insurance
• Wellness Initiatives
• Employee Wellness
• Cost Control
• Life Insurance
• Wellness
• Strategic Planning
• Group Benefits
• Group Health
• Team Building
• Cost Savings
• Insurance
• Process Improvement
• Long Term Disability
• Short Term Disability
• Leadership
• Employee Benefits
• 401k
• Wellness Industry
• Benefits Plan Desing
• Business Process Improvement
• Benefits Design
• Biometric Screenings
• Cost Management
• Health
• Wellness Programs