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27. Managing Your Health and Welfare Service Providers
Who do your employee benefits service providers work for? You! So why aren't you managing their performance and results the same way you do your staff? Participants will walk away with a tool for evaluating vendor performance and a practical, effective approach for setting and measuring vendor performance expectations.
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28. Case Study: Navigating and Implementing a High-Deductible Health Plan in a Unionized Environment
Implementing a high-deductible health plan is difficult enough; it can be even harder and take longer in a union environment. This case study shows how one plan sponsor succeeded in undertaking the change in a way that resulted in a win-win solution for the company and the union. Hear about the experience, process and lessons learned.
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29. Evaluating the True Opportunity of the Generic Drug Wave
Discover how generic drugs offer a true opportunity to lower prescription drug spending. This workshop provides a thorough, strategic evaluation of how employers and employees can save money as $65 billion in brand name drugs come off patent in the near future. Discover the potential impact on plan design and the bottom line for both self-insured and fully insured employer groups. Included is an introduction to market-leading concepts and products that are new and distinctly different from current and past innovations. Learn what you need to know and do to take advantage of the generic drug wave.
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30. Turn on the Light for 2008 Employee Benefits Legal Compliance
Learn about the most recent legal and regulatory requirements for health and welfare benefits. This workshop is tailored for human resources specialists and executives and requires more than a basic knowledge of employee benefits. Included are updates on COBRA, cafeteria plans, and dependent care FSAs as well as quick, brief updates on FMLA interaction and welfare benefits, HSAs, retiree health plans and qualified medical expenses.
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31. Eight Conversations About Benefits: Recalibrating Health and Welfare
Where are you spending your benefit dollars, and what are you getting for your money? Employers need to see more relevance for their benefits dollar. Survival requires realigning benefits strategies with business realities. Finite resources are forcing unprecedented decisions in employer-sponsored health and welfare. Employers are—or need to be—disassembling their legacy benefits structures and rebuilding new configurations. This presentation addresses the tough questions facing benefits professionals and examines how the industry is transforming as employers view the future of benefits.
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