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1. Consumer Driven Health Plans: HRA-HSA and Wellness Responsibility Overview
Discover why wellness responsibility is the critical link to success when you implement a consumer-driven health plan. This session provides a definition of consumerism and reviews how HRAs and HSAs are structured, highlighting the pros and cons of each. Learn how these accounts can be part of an innovative wellness responsibility approach that integrates with consumerism. Two compelling case studies illustrate what works and what doesn't.
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2. Developing an Employee Benefits Strategy and Mission Statement
Do you have a roadmap that clearly shows the future direction of your benefit programs? Given the growing cost and complexity of benefits today, benefit professionals are expected to be able to create a strong, comprehensive benefit strategy and mission statement aligned with overall corporate objectives. For many benefit professionals, this requires a new set of skills. This workshop teaches you the steps to developing a strategy, including the issues to consider and how to sell it to the C-Suite.
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3. Learn Key Strategies for Successful Negotiations with Your Carriers and Vendors
There are financially sound arguments to be made with carriers during renewals to yield better rates and lower future increases. Put the carriers to the test on whether they have been helping you manage claims and rates. Learn about tools for forensic evaluation of your next renewal.
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4. Around the World in 60 Minutes: Broaden Your Horizons with a Review of International Benefits
Global business travelers and international assignees are often a small but critical component of successful businesses. This workshop provides an overview of international health care benefits for employers with occasional global business travelers, those with existing permanent global operations and companies that are starting to think about venturing off shore. Learn about global trends in benefit and plan design, and explore
evolving product and service offerings in international health benefits geared towards the unique needs of the globally mobile employee. Find out how the domestic drive towards consumer-driven health care and the evolving phenomenon of medical tourism are altering the international health care landscape. If you have two frequent travelers, a global workforce, or simply wish to get a glimpse of the international health care scene, this session will be valuable to you.
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5. What Employers Are Saying About Wellness and Disease Management—2007 Survey Findings
Although senior management is generally convinced that wellness and disease management control rising health care costs, many are unclear about measuring return on investment and whether employee lifestyles should be tied to contributions. Based on a survey of more than 400 employers, this session explores the effectiveness and perceptions of wellness and disease management programs today and also examines the level of satisfaction with these programs. It offers, as well, recommendations from employers on how to improve success and looks at multiple ways to measure return on investment.
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