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Industry Veterans Launch The Judi Group, the First Health Benefits Advisory Firm Focused on Fiduciary Compliance, Cost Control, and Plan Oversight for Employers

Issued by Judi Health

Jan. 21, 2026

• Founded as an independent venture by Judi Health, the Judi Group provides health plan fiduciaries with deep insights into the hidden cost drivers, contractual conflicts, and compliance gaps that erode plan value
• Through targeted solutions and hands‑on support, the Judi Group aims to help plan sponsors reclaim meaningful control over their programs, which has long been diminished by opaque practices

NEW YORK -- Judi Health, the enterprise health technology company and benefit administrator, today announced the official launch of the Judi Group, the first advisory firm dedicated to conducting forensic-level reviews across the totality of an employer health plan’s vendors to improve data access and remediate hidden cost drivers, contractual conflicts, and compliance gaps that impact their plan performance. Founded by industry veterans with decades of experience in pharmacy and health benefits, ERISA law, technology, and product innovation, the Judi Group will empower employers to reclaim fiduciary control and eliminate the hidden costs that have plagued their health plans and plan members – and the industry at large – for decades.

An advocate for US employers, The Judi Group is here to "engineer a sustainable future for health benefits programs" by bringing clarity to cost drivers, vendor contracting, and procurement processes, and empowering plan sponsors hold vendors accountable.

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“Spending on healthcare is typically an organization's second-largest expense, yet it remains fraught with waste and opacity that have allowed misaligned vendors to reap excess profits at the expense of their health plan clients for decades,” said Jeffrey Hogan, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Judi Group. “The status quo has conditioned everyone, from America’s largest employers, unions, municipalities, and health systems to smaller groups, to accept rising costs and inaccessible data as normal. We will challenge these assumptions at every level and bring predictability and value back to health plans.”

The Judi Group’s expert team includes Chris Deacon, Director of Growth and Strategy, who has a wealth of public- and private-sector experience, including in New Jersey, where she saved the state hundreds of millions of dollars; Julie Selesnick, Director of Legal and Compliance, who has decades of employee benefits, fiduciary compliance, and ERISA law experience; and Jason Aulakh, Director of Product and Innovation, former Vice President of BPO and Product Development at Independence Blue Cross. Deacon added, “With health benefits being among the largest and most consequential capital commitments most organizations make, they should be managed with the controls, discipline, and accountability expected of other major financial decisions.”

Through comprehensive, end‑to‑end reviews, the Judi Group focuses on maximizing fiduciary protection and transparency, surfacing what traditional, legacy vendors have buried in contracts or obscured from plan sponsors, and integrating medical, pharmacy, and ancillary plan analysis so Boards and employers can make smarter, data‑driven decisions. Ultimately, the goal is to improve the procurement process, vendor evaluation, and related workflows to address power imbalances and hold vendors accountable.

“The market is desperate for an advocate that truly understands the issues plan sponsors face and can offer truly objective, unbiased counsel. The Judi Group isn't here to patch a broken model; the goal is to engineer a sustainable future for benefits programs,” said AJ Loiacono, Co-Founder and CEO of Judi Health. “For the past twenty-five years, entities that profit from the status quo have sustained the myth that healthcare can be affordable and high-quality, and that nothing needs to change. The Judi Group, with its deep resources and bench, will lift the veil and reclaim the rights plan sponsors unknowingly abdicated long ago.”

To fundamentally shift the paradigm in favor of payers, the Judi Group’s services include:

• Deep forensic review of every employer health plan contract to surface hidden clauses, pricing inefficiencies, and leverage points for renegotiation (or RFP process refinement).
• Regulatory and compliance evaluation, and a detailed audit of the compliance posture across federal, state, and contractual obligations.
• Comprehensive evaluation of fiduciary exposure to propose fiduciary governance structures and systems for maximum protection.
• Actuarial-grade retrospective data analytics to discover tactical priorities, find contract anomalies and conflicts, and recapture funds that a plan (including plan members) may be owed.
• Scenario-based modeling of high-cost claim exposure and stop-loss adequacy.
• An integrated approach to plan oversight that simultaneously contemplates the ideal structure for managing medical, pharmacy, and ancillary benefits.

To learn more, visit: www.judi.group.

About The Judi Group

The Judi Group is a premier, independent healthcare advisory firm built to dismantle systemic opacity in the healthcare industry and deliver transparency and unified oversight to employers, health systems, provider groups, state governments and municipalities, unions, and other payers. By combining the expertise of leading health benefits strategists, ERISA attorneys, actuarial analysts, and world-class technologists, the firm improves visibility into total cost drivers for health plans, eliminates waste, mitigates risk, and protects fiduciary integrity. The Judi Group serves as a conflict-free partner, helping organizations optimize and align their procurement decisions, enhance budget predictability through deep forensic review and risk engineering, and improve health plan performance. To learn more, visit: www.judi.group.

About Judi Health

Judi Health is an enterprise health technology company providing a comprehensive suite of solutions for employers and health plans, including:

• Capital Rx, a public benefit corporation delivering full-service pharmacy benefit management (PBM) solutions to self-insured employers;
• Judi Health™, which offers full-service health benefit management solutions to employers, TPAs, and health plans; and
• Judi^®, the industry’s leading proprietary Enterprise Health Platform (EHP), which consolidates all claim administration-related workflows in one scalable, secure platform.

Together with our clients, we’re rebuilding trust in healthcare in the U.S. and deploying the infrastructure we need to deliver the care we deserve. To learn more, visit: www.judi.health.

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