Novus continues to gather more health carriers and third-party administrators to add its cannabis benefits as a rider and/or as a supplement bundle to consumer health plans. These alliances realize the potential of increasing revenue and market share as consumer spending surges within the legal market.
According to Forbes “by 2025,5.4 million Americans, or 2.4% of
There were four significant milestones within the second quarter of 2021:
a) Financial Highlights:
- Revenue Increase:
$4,821 or 8% to$64,731 for the three months endedJune 30, 2021 , as compared to$59,910 the three months endedJune 30, 2020 - Profit Margin: Demonstrated a 37% profit margin pricing structure in its business model for the three months ended
June 30, 2021 - Net Income Increase: $3,396 or 17% to
$24,080 for the three months endedJune 30, 2021 , as compared to three months endedJune 30, 2020 - Shareholder Equity Increase:
$1,481,749 onJune 30, 2021 , from$1,468,783 onDecember 31, 2020 - Cash and Cash Equivalents Increase: To
$163,172 onJune 30, 2021 , compared to$154,345 three months endedJune 30, 2021
b) Oklahoma Market Entry: Light Heart Farms Dispensary of
c) PRAM: Begins a market roll out to their subscriber base. PRAM focuses on proprietary prescription drug benefits; they identify a unique need for pharmacy cost containment in the marketplace. They have a sizeable client base in the group markets and a distribution base with carriers.
d)
Other Notable Agreements:
- Unique Insurance Concepts UIC: A consortia of health insurance agents that focus on group policies, Medicare supplements, dental and critical illness with over 5,000 corporate clients.
- Go Enroll / Elevate Wellness: One of the nation’s top InsureTech platforms targeted for large groups with over 92,000 clients. This platform allows employees to integrate cannabis with Dental, Vision, GAP, and other Medical Plans. The Elevate Wellness Plans cover over 4,500 employers where their employees are allowed to choose alternative treatment options that may not be available through their traditional healthcare providers.
- Oneshare: A medical cost-sharing provider an ACA-exempt path to healthcare. Its health-based sharing membership plan focuses on
Catastrophic Plans and Complete Health .
- Essential Benefits: Is Minimal Essential Care (MEC) is a plan that meets the Affordable Care Act requirement for getting health coverage. Some of these programs under MEC include marketplace plans, job-based plans, Medicare, and Medicaid. Mainly focused on covering routine preventative illness plans.
- Wellness 360: This is an employee-based wellness platform that offers plans, program guides, online educational resources, a white label wellness program, and many other customizable options for workplace wellness.
- Back 9 Insurance: Is an InsureTech platform that sells annuities, life, long-term care, and disability. Their platform makes it easy for agents to display side-by-side comparisons with over 50 carriers and offer Novus’ plans in a cross-sell.
- National Life: Contracted through Novus provider
Compass Health this is one of the oldest life insurance carriers in the country.
Medova Healthcare : Novus has executed an agreement withMedova Healthcare that offers Bridgewell Health®, which are six guaranteed issued plans that offer preventive and wellness plans with robust medical benefits designed for employee group health benefits.
As the cost of healthcare will outpace the rate of inflation and with federal legalization, adding 15% to 25% on top of state taxes averaging 21%, cannabis will no doubt become pricier. Novus maintains its business model position, by influencing cannabis consumers and making it affordable through incentivizing patient/members to choose this as a health benefit thus reducing total out-of-pocket at the point-of-sale visit.
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Novus’ medical cannabis benefits package will work as outside developers and will not cultivate, handle, transport grow, extract, dispense, put up for sale, put on the market, vend, deliver, supply, circulate, or trade cannabis or any substances that violate
The state laws are in conflict with the federal Controlled Substances Act. The current administration has effectively stated that it is not an efficient use of resources to direct federal law enforcement agencies to prosecute those lawfully abiding by state-designated laws, allowing the use and distribution of medical marijuana. However, there is no guarantee that the current administration, nor any future administration, will not change this policy and decide to enforce the federal laws strongly. Any such change in the federal government's enforcement of current federal laws could cause significant financial changes to
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