Featured Company - ClaimLinx

Happenings in Blue Ash

The City of Blue Ash Economic Development Department thanks the 2010 Blue Ash Ambassadors Committee for a successful year! This committee members conducted face-to-face meetings with over 120 companies to identify retention, expansion and other related development opportunities. Left to right 1st row John Prather, Brad Ruther, Todd Pease, Rich Dole, 2nd Row Judy Clark, Barb Griffin, Catherine Fitzgerald, Brad Daniels
(not pictured: Rachel Russ, Kelly Osler)

Blue Ash Life Sciences Collaborative held their 3rd annual event Strategic Partnerships that Drive Life Science Success on November 12, 2010. This 3 hour program was designed to help demonstrate how well structured partnerships provide expanded opportunity, critical mass, complementary capacity, and a win-win for all entities. Learn more.

Welcome to Blue Ash

Vora Ventures LLC has purchased the former U.S. Financial Life building at 10290 Alliance Road from Blue Ash Alliance LLC, an affiliate of State Farm Life Insurance Co., for $3 million, just under $70 per square foot. With more than 2,000 employees they will consolidate several IT companies at this location. The city of Blue Ash provided an economic development loan to finance the purchase. Read more. 

Kenwood Financial Group "...where Main Street Invests" has moved to Blue Ash. They are now located at 9545 Kenwood Road, Suite 103. They are a firm founded with the goal of assisting clients in every aspect of their financial lives and their staff consists of experienced professionals with a "hands on" approach to financial guidance.

ClaimLinx

ClaimLinx helps small businesses save money on health insurance. 

Christy and Thomas Quigley know that every dollar a small business saves on health insurance helps the bottom line. The husband and wife have a combined 42 years in the insurance industry and through their own small company Blue-Ash based ClaimLinx, help others get the most out of their health care dollars, for less.

ClaimLinx, located at 10260 Alliance Road, since 2004 has worked with companies to help them cut costs on employee health insurance. As a consultant and third-party benefit administrator, ClaimLinx works with companies to help them implement an IRS rule that lets employers pay providers for medical costs their employees and their dependents incur. It allows employers to purchase less expensive, higher deductible insurance. This allows employers to pay providers directly for the difference between the old and new deductibles.

The typical company ClaimLinx works with has 20 to 30 employees, but some clients have up to 250 employees, Christy said. On average, companies save up to $2,000 per employee each year.

"We put the focus on the small business because they haven't been provided this type of information in the past. We go in and talk to them about who provides their insurance, and design a plan that work best for them," she said. "Most are blue collar-companies – they are the ones who are hurting the most – in construction, manufacturing and auto companies."

The company can also administer the plan.

Christy has 20 years of experience in the insurance industry; previously she worked for Anthem Blue Cross Shield as a Marketing Research Analyst. Thomas has 22 years experience and previously owned his own insurance company. They have 10 employees.

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