A veteran in the insurance industry with over 28 years of carrier and brokerage experience, Julie is responsible for leading the CBIZ Key Accounts division in Arizona. As part of her role, Julie is responsible for the mentoring, training and establishing a dedicated team of service professionals who strive to meet the ongoing service needs of our clients.
Additionally, Julie provides consultative and strategic employee benefits service to large private sector employers. Ms. Modrzejewski specializes in working with healthcare providers and hospital systems. Julie became an integral part in creating and managing CBIZ’s first Captive. A Reciprocal Captive was formed to assist several of the firm’s non-profit behavioral health employers with ownership of their employee benefits. CBIZ, as the Captive Manager, provides leadership and guidance to facilitate strategic solutions to the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and to mitigate the health insurance increases that employers face. Julie’s team is now in the process of expanding the Captive to other qualified employers with similar business structure and philosophy.
Prior to joining CBIZ, Julie was employed for two years as an Insurance Brokerage Manager for Acordia, Inc. in Colorado Springs, Colorado. As the Insurance Brokerage Manager, Julie directed and oversaw policies, procedures and personnel issues for the department, trained and developed Account Service staff, audited workflow for accuracy and quality of service, counseled the agency’s clients on their current coverage’s and renewal needs and was involved with budgeting and planning within the agency. Julie also spent time as an Account Executive with Kaiser Permanente in Colorado Springs, Colorado for a period of three years. Julie was responsible for negotiating renewals, assisting benefit managers with administration of their health care benefits and performed rating and underwriting functions. Prior to working for Kaiser, Julie was employed for seven years with HealthPartners Health Plans, Inc. in Tucson, Arizona as an Account Service Representative. Julie was responsible for negotiating renewals, providing daily account service and marketing HealthPartners’ group insurance plans including HMO, POS and PPO plans.