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