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Erik Wissig serves as Hixme Insurance Solutions , Inc.’s chief financial officer and oversees a technology-driven platform in the group benefits sphere. Emphasizing innovative solutions that place employees in the driver’s seat when it comes to health benefits, Erik Wissig’s company enables employers to optimize their activities within the individual health insurance market. Interviewed by Forbes, Mr. Wissig described his company as fulfilling an essential role within an Affordable Care Act-influenced health care landscape in which it can be extremely challenging to predict evolving regulatory mandates and areas of price increase. Within a commission and reimbursement environment, a key focus is finding a sustainable revenue model, given that health care providers have limited flexibility in adjusting service and product pricing. Hixme has identified these challenges and found ways of enabling companies to reevaluate their systems in ways that protect worker coverage while containin...

As chief financial officer of Hixme Insurance Solutions, Inc., Erik Wissig guides a technology-enabled firm that provides larger companies a platform for enabling employees to take ownership of their health benefits. Erik Wissig and others at Hixme provide an in-depth look at issues confronting clients through dedicated webinars, including a recent one on “The Battle of the HR Professional: A Deep Dive into the Benefits Function.” Speaking on the webinar, Hixme CEO Denny Weinberg addressed specific challenges related to benefits, which he defined as the most costly among the full array of issues that HR professionals deal with. With HR professionals focused on attracting and retaining top level talent, they must balance financial constraints and competitive pressures.  Within the benefits sphere, battlegrounds have emerged on a number of fronts amid a landscape of rising “out-of-control” costs and third-party health coverage purchases that are uneconomical. One goal of Hixme is...