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11. Is Self-Funding Right for Your Plan? What Are the Considerations?
Employers continue to battle premium increases and are challenged with reducing health care expenditures. This session provides you with an overview of the pros and cons of self-funding your benefit plan. It also looks at the various items you should consider in an effort to reduce those increasing costs.
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12. Can You Afford Not to Offer Retiree Health Care and Expect to Be an Employer of Choice?
The coming retirement of the baby boom generation finds many of them financially unprepared and also creates a looming labor shortage. Human resource professionals need to act today to implement programs to help recruit and retain key employees as well as help employees pay for retirement. Retiree health benefits are long gone, but there are programs employers can offer that have minimum impact on the company’s bottom
line. Learn more about the option of using a defined contribution approach to provide retiree medical benefits. Discover solutions that offer creative financing tools to help fund retiree health care but avoid most of the costs and pitfalls normally associated with these benefits.
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13. What Are They Thinking and Why Should I Care? Improve Cash Flow, Profitability and Morale by Measuring Employee Perceptions
What if your employees actually embraced changes to your existing benefit plan because they participated in the design process? What if their involvement directly led to decreased plan costs? Learn how a properly constructed employee perception survey—conducted prior to making any plan changes—can make all the difference. Don’t accept hostility as the only possible outcome to plan changes. Employee feedback provides the missing data you need to create a sustainable, affordable health care and employee benefit system—one that will actually satisfy the majority of your participants.
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14. COBRA Continuation Coverage: Insights from the DOL
A representative from the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) explains the basics of COBRA and HIPAA regulations and how the EBSA is dedicated to helping you as an employer, plan sponsor or benefits specialist. Gain valuable information on compliance assistance. Take advantage of this opportunity to learn directly from the regulators and to receive publications that will help you lawfully fulfill your obligations to administer the plans in accordance with Title I of ERISA.
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15. Making Wellness Work for Your Employees and Your Bottom Line
How does wellness fit in the environment of consumer-driven health care? What are the essential steps to designing and implementing a wellness program that will lower health care costs and improve the health of your employees? How do you hold your wellness vendor
accountable? Discover how you can validate the success of your wellness program by evaluating the worth of your wellness investment.
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