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Benefitra Research

Original, engine-driven research on employer health-plan funding and renewals — built on our own modeled funding engine, per-state renewal data, and Monte-Carlo simulation.

Papers & reports

Available now
White Paper No. 01

Predicting Employer Health-Insurance Renewals

Trend indices, the five-year Getzen glide, the ACA rate-filing signal, a 26-year out-of-sample backtest, and a specialty-drug model — assembled into a two-engine renewal-prediction architecture.

Sep 2026Read the paper →
Coming soon
Annual flagship

State of Employer Health Funding

The linkable annual anchor — the funding atlas, renewal index, and backtests synthesized into one report, with a forward renewal forecast and last year’s forecast publicly graded.

Annual
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Proprietary index

The Benefitra Renewal Index

A branded, per-state renewal tracker built from ACA rate filings and our own placed-case book — a named, citable index published on a recurring quarterly cadence.

Quarterly
Coming soon
Simulation study

Self-Funding Volatility: a 10,000-Simulation Study

How volatile is self-funding, really? A Monte-Carlo study of stop-loss corridors by group size — turning the risk story we sell into a cited, quantified stat.

Study
Why this is a program, not a one-off. Every question a broker, CFO, or journalist asks about health-plan funding is a run of the same engine — and every run is a publishable, citable asset. The papers here are exercised in Benefitra’s health-plan funding simulator: original data plus first-hand modeling that no content mill can replicate.
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