Conference Workshops

Attend all general and workshop sessions and earn up to 14 CPE (for CPAs) credits.

Attend the pre-conference workshop and earn additional credits.

Conference Workshops
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Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday
10:00 am–11:00 am	10:15 am–11:15 am	9:15 am–10:15 am
11:15 am–12:15 pm	1:45 pm–2:45 pm	10:30 am–11:30 am
2:00 pm–3:00 pm	3:15 pm–4:15 pm
3:30 pm–4:30 pm

Wednesday, 9:15 am–10:15 am

37. Empowering Your Employees to Make Better Health Care Decisions Through a Limited-Benefit Plan Offering
C. Wieden
CIGNA Voluntary Limited-Benefit Plans

38. Piloting Your Benefit Plan, Part 2: How Business Intelligence Yields Best Practices
G.W. Frye
The Benefit Services Group, Inc.

39. Keep Your Cost Trend Under 5% Without Cutting Benefits
K.J. Trott
Quantum Health, Inc.

40. A Legislative and Regulatory Update for Health and Welfare Plans
T.L. Bitseff, J.D.
Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

41. What Employers Are Saying About Wellness and Disease Management—2007 Survey Findings
J. Fortin
Willis

37. Empowering Your Employees to Make Better Health Care Decisions Through a Limited-Benefit Plan Offering
Limited-benefit plans are an important part of your company’s benefit offering for hourly workers as well as full-time employees in a waiting period for major medical coverage. Learn how you can engage these employees in their own health care by providing a plan with strong enrollment and health education components. Gain insight into the positive impact that employees with health care coverage can have on retention, productivity and your bottom line.
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38. Piloting Your Benefit Plan, Part 2: How Business Intelligence Yields Best Practices
Don’t worry if you missed Part 1! This session provides a brief definition of business intelligence and then delves into a discussion of practical applications. Learn how a good decision-support system yields business intelligence that can be applied differently, depending upon the employer and its goals. No matter what your organization’s size or make-up, the crucial factor to best-practice benefit plans is the data engine used to send signals to the cockpit.
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39. Keep Your Cost Trend Under 5% Without Cutting Benefits
Coordinated health care programs have stabilized claims trend for many groups without decreasing benefits or shifting costs. Learn how to select services and vendors that reduce fragmentation in your plan, change employee behavior, improve utilization and reduce costs.
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40. A Regulatory Update for Health and Welfare Plans
Review the latest compliance requirements and developments. Learn about important changes regarding COBRA, HIPAA, HSAs, FSAs and other federal regulations that may change the way you manage your plan.
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41. What Employers Are Saying About Wellness and Disease
—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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