Healthcare spend is one of the fastest, biggest levers you have to drive EBITDA and enterprise value.

Most companies treat it like a cost to manage. The ones who treat it like a profit lever pull millions to the bottom line. This tool shows what disciplined benefits management is actually worth on your income statement.

Quick intro from CKHow to use this tool, and why it changes the conversation with your CFO.

The Profit Lever

What your savings would be worth as revenue.

Move the sliders. The math updates instantly. Copy the summary or share the link with your CFO.

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Employee Benefits as a Profit Lever

What healthcare savings actually mean on your income statement.
Quick presets:
Units sold per year 20,000

How many "things" your business sells annually: products, contracts, jobs, transactions, whatever your main revenue unit is.

Price per unit $1,000

The typical price tag on one of those units, before any discounts.

Typical discount or allowance 8%

The gap between sticker price and what actually hits your books. Set to 0 if this doesn't apply.

Net revenue per unit: $920
Annual healthcare spend $15.0M

Your total company spend on medical benefits each year, in millions.

Operating margin 6%

Your profit margin after operating costs, what flows to the bottom line for every dollar of revenue.

Realistic savings target 12%

How much of your healthcare spend a disciplined strategy could reasonably reduce.

Annual Savings
$1.80M
In healthcare cost reduction at 12% of $15.0M medical spend
Profit-Equivalent Revenue
$30.0M
New top-line revenue needed at 6% margin to produce the same operating dollars
Unit Equivalent
32,609
new revenue units per year, at your typical pricing
5-Year Cumulative Savings (compounded at 8.5% trend)
Healthcare trend rate: 8.5% (PwC Behind the Numbers 2026)
No sales team produces 32,609 additional revenue units per year. No pricing strategy does. No market expansion does. One disciplined benefits strategy does, and it compounds.
These numbers don't move on their own. Book a call and let's pull this lever.
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The Methodology

The framework behind the conversation.

The High-Performing Health Plan Blueprint is the framework CK uses with employers who decide to engage. It's structured around five outcomes. Most benefits conversations cover one or two. This one maps all five.

PILLAR 01

Employee Value Perception

Information is not education. A year-round strategy to drive benefits literacy, trust, and confident use.

PILLAR 02

Financial Performance Strategy

Can you defend your funding decision with data? 5-year cost curve management, not 1-year renewal management.

PILLAR 03

Administrative & Operational Efficiency

Execution quality becomes employee experience and CFO reporting. Low-friction, high-integrity operating system.

PILLAR 04

Digital Healthcare Strategy

Benefits can't feel like a fax machine in a flying-car world. AI-enabled digital front door for care navigation.

PILLAR 05

Governance & Accountability

The eat-your-vegetables, seatbelt pillar. Proactive governance that protects EBITDA and enterprise value.

Go Deeper

The High-Performing Health Plan whitepaper.

A 12-page reference covering all five pillars in detail. The same framework CK uses with CFOs and HR leaders to build defensible, multi-year benefits strategies.

Whitepaper
The High-Performing Health Plan
5 Pillars Framework
Chris Krusiewicz
The Baldwin Group
Free download

The 5 pillars of a high-performing health plan, in one reference.

Covers the diagnostic questions to ask, the financial reasoning behind each pillar, and the implementation patterns that separate strategic plans from reactive renewals.

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A focused, no-cost strategy call.

This isn't a pitch. It's a 30-minute conversation to figure out whether your situation lines up with the kind of work I do, and whether there's enough opportunity here to justify the next step.

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About

Chris Krusiewicz

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Senior Partner at The Baldwin Group (NASDAQ: BWIN), with 18 years in employee benefits consulting. CK helps CFOs and HR leaders at mid-to-large employers protect and drive EBITDA by reframing benefits spend as a profit lever rather than a cost center.

His work centers on the High-Performing Health Plan Blueprint, a proprietary methodology built around five measurable outcomes: employee value perception, financial performance strategy, operational efficiency, digital healthcare strategy, and governance and accountability.

CK is a professional speaker, including the PlanSource Eclipse keynote and the Exponential Healthcare Conference. He works with employers across skilled nursing, healthcare, manufacturing, professional services, and higher education.

Firm
The Baldwin Group
Publicly traded (NASDAQ: BWIN)
Methodology
The High-Performing
Health Plan Blueprint
Focus
CFOs and HR leaders
500-10,000 employees
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