S03E06: Blackwell's Solution with Kari Niblack

Cristy Gupton and Kari Niblack discuss Blackwell Captive Solutions and the need for custom health plans.

Show Notes

Blackwell Captive Solutions offers self-funded solutions with their Diamond Standard.

Kari Niblack is the President of Blackwell Captive Solutions. She has served as an ERISA and employee benefits attorney involved in U.S. healthcare for more than 25 years. Niblack holds unique perspectives on healthcare, health administration, and health management.

Healthcare professional and host, Cristy Gupton, interviews Kari Niblack about her company, Blackwell Captive Solutions. They discuss the importance of custom plans for unique workforces, and how Blackwell Captive Solutions provides a strategic step in the right direction towards controlling healthcare costs while managing the most innovative health plan around. Employers who choose this type of strategy allow themselves to grow, improve the health of their workforce and reap the benefits of attracting the best and brightest talent without the hindrance of overly burdensome health insurance premiums.

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Timecodes

[00:00:00] Intro

[00:01:03] What is Blackwell?

[00:03:20] Who was Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell

[00:06:15] Blackwell’s Solutions

[00:12:00] There are No Plans

[00:14:15] Powerful Solutions

[00:17:43] What are Self-Funded solutions?

[00:23:00] The Diamond Standard

[00:25:20] Unique Health Plans for a Unique Workforce

[00:29:00] Closing

Kari Niblack

Our Guest

Kari Niblack became president of Blackwell Captive Solutions in 2022. She has served 25 years in the healthcare industry in various positions.

Niblack also speaks and publishes topics related to issues affecting self-funded health plans. Clients seek out Niblack for her legal and human resources expertise, unmatched market knowledge, and ability to ensure an outcome-based alignment of clients’ long—term goals.

Niblack is proud of her longstanding commitment to numerous philanthropic organizations which showcases her passion to make vital connections. Through these connections, she builds stronger and more supportive communities.

Cristy Gupton

Your Host

Cristy Gupton is an employee benefits advisor and President of Custom Benefits Solutions. Cristy has been part of the employee benefits industry since 1998 and has been named to Employee Benefits Advisor Magazine’s Top 20 Women in Benefits Advising in both 2018 and 2020. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Health from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s degree in Health Benefits Design and Health Informatics from University of Lynchburg. She holds the designation, Global Financial Steward from Wake Forest University’s Center for Board Certified Fiduciaries, and seeks to help employers be the best fiduciaries they can be.

Cristy belongs to an elite group of benefits advisors called the Health Rosetta and another similar group called Mitigate Partners. Health Rosetta advisors commit to transparency in all their business endeavors, guiding and teaching employers and employees about health plan design and accessing the highest quality healthcare at the lowest possible cost. Cristy is a sought-after speaker on healthcare cost/quality issues and is a national thought-leader and expert on Direct Primary Care; specifically, how DPC doctors’ memberships can be embedded into employer-sponsored health plans, lowering costs, and improving the patient experience. Cristy has written articles for BenefitsPro Magazine and Physician Outlook Magazine. She leads the NC/SC Chapter of the Free Market Medical Association and the DisruptHR Asheville and Wilmington Chapters.