Conference Highlights: Health & Welfare Plan Management

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Conference Highlights

Opening Keynote Session • Monday, June 8 • 8:45 am

Leading Through Unprecedented Times
Kerry Finnegan, Worldwide Partner and National Advisory and Enterprise Practice Leader
Mercer
The current economic and business climate is posing unprecedented challenges for companies of all sizes and across all industries. In his keynote remarks, Kerry Finnegan shares thoughts on how you can position your company and your workforce to not only survive but lead through these challenging times, including insights from Mercer’s recent Snapshot Survey on how employers are coping with health and benefit issues.

Luncheon Session • Monday, June 8 • 12:15 pm

The Road Less Traveled—Lower Health Care Costs Through Greater Efficiency
Kara J. Trott, Chief Executive Officer
Quantum Health, Inc.
Which path to take: make health care services incurred today by your employees more efficient, or reduce the amount of services they utilize next year by getting them healthier? The answer is both, of course, but scant attention has been paid to making today’s health care more efficient. And yet, studies show that 33% of all health care services incurred today are unnecessary products of waste, duplication and delay caused by our fragmented, uncoordinated health care system. Kara Trott demonstrates how your health plan can begin to eliminate a significant portion of this unnecessary cost right away.

Morning Keynote Session • Tuesday, June 9 • 9:00 am

Breaking the Inertia: A Pathway to Improved Health and Reduced Costs
John Young, Vice President, Consumerism
CIGNA
Cost and disease thrive on inertia. Health care costs continue to escalate, and disease in the U.S. continues to grow. How do we break that inertia and change behaviors? How do we incent people to move from passive health care consumerism to active, personal involvement in their own health and health care spending? Improving health is the only sustainable way to reduce cost and improve productivity. John Young discusses a pathway to improved health that focuses on engaging the individual, creating an ownership mentality that empowers individuals and stimulating healthy behaviors.

Luncheon Session • Tuesday, June 9 • 11:30 am

Affect Your Bottom Line by Equipping Your Employees for the Journey
Gerald W. Frye, President
The Benefit Services Group, Inc.
Employee health is a huge driver of cost in terms of both medical plan coverage and productivity. You are not a helpless victim of this trend. Gerald Frye shows you how to take charge by empowering employees via health literacy, benefits literacy and financial literacy. Hear how medium, message and data mining come together to keep employees walking the path you have mapped, and learn how navigating change and trust issues are crucial to reaching your desired destination.

Morning Keynote Session • Wednesday, June 10 • 9:00 am

A Time for Change: Supporting the Need for Prescription Innovation
Lance R. Helsel, National Vice President of Sales, Insured Solutions
Medco Health Solutions, Inc.
There is a unique market anomaly that provides a tremendous savings opportunity for employers and employees as it relates to the pharmacy benefit: the majority of a plan sponsor’s prescription utilization has lower cost alternatives. Lance Helsel discusses the savings potential with claim level detail and plan design structure and reveals that employers overpay for the majority of their prescription utilization. Understanding and employing these innovative concepts is the key to controlling health care benefit costs.

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Why Attend This Conference

Health and Welfare Plan Management for Mid-Sized Employers is presented in conjunction with one of the nation’s top institutions of higher learning, the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. This conference is an unmatched opportunity to learn how to effectively manage your health care programs while keeping costs under control.

This is NOT a trade show. This educational conference is for people who face the same issues as you and are looking to learn about and more effectively manage their benefits offerings.
The "no outside vendors" registration policy ensures unbiased presentations in a non-sales environment. Only plan sponsors are allowed to register.
An agenda of 35 workshops allows you to customize your experience by attending sessions that are most relevant to your plan and participants.
The educational sessions focus exclusively on health benefits information and offer real-world strategies you can use immediately.
Your attendance entitles you to one year of unlimited online access to presentations from this and other Health and Welfare Plan Management for Mid-Sized Employers conferences. It’s like getting four conferences for the price of one!

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