If you’re like most employers, you struggle with how to contain the cost of your health care programs without diminishing their value to employees. Frequently prescribed remedies such as consumer-directed health care, wellness programs, voluntary benefits, disease management, HSAs and HRAs claim to be the cure for what ails health care in America, but few have long, proven track records of success. How do you know what’s best for your organization? Health and Welfare Plan Management for Mid-Sized Employers, September 7–10 in Las Vegas, helps you sort through the hype and uncover the facts that will allow you to hold the line on costs while satisfying employee expectations of their benefits package. With more than 40 workshops to choose from, the program schedule allows you to customize your agenda to meet the specific needs of your company. Make plans now to attend. It’s the perfect prescription for improving the long-term prognosis for your plan’s health.

Steps You Can Take to Improve the Bottom Line

• An HR practitioner shares his successful approach to cutting health care costs by 30%–50% without reducing benefits or shifting costs to employees.
• Gain insight into how to use plan data to identify cost drivers and more closely align your benefit dollars with your company’s long-term objectives.
• Explore how to implement a wellness program that achieves meaningful ROI and saves money.
• Enhance your benefits package through voluntary benefits without increasing costs.

Winning Strategies for Benefit Plans

• Learn how to successfully design and implement a CDHP that delivers quantifiable results to your company and your workforce.
• Experts show how integrating wellness and disease management programs with medical care saves money and improves employee satisfaction and productivity.
• A new study shows how biometric screenings and health risk assessments can help you identify potentially unmanaged costs.
• Explore new options and opportunities for controlling prescription drug costs.
• Discover approaches to managing presenteeism, a problem that can be more costly than absenteeism.

Employer Success Stories

• Case studies of employers who switched to CDHPs reveal how they arrived at the decision, their plan design process and the results they achieved.
• Learn how mid-sized employers have cost effectively benefited from on-site clinics to identify potential high dollar claims before they happen, find gaps in care and engage employees to improve their health.
• Hear one employer’s simple, inexpensive approach to reducing costs while improving employee
  health and productivity.

Know Your Legal and Regulatory Obligations

• Weigh the pros and cons of HSAs and HRAs as an IRS representative walks you through the basics.
• DOL speakers discuss your responsibilities under COBRA and HIPAA.
• A benefits attorney reviews recent changes to FMLA and how to avoid employee abuse.
• Learn how to manage post-retiree health under the Medicare Modernization Act.

Achieve Success by Educating and Motivating Employees

• Learn how to motivate employees to make better lifestyle decisions that will improve their health and your company’s finances.
• Gain insight into proven employee education strategies that provide real value to a CDHP.
• Hear how to take a partnership approach with employees to lower health care costs.
• Discover techniques to overcome the challenges of communicating benefits to a multi-cultural, multi-generational workforce.

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Registration is strictly limited to executives and administrators who manage their organizations’ self-funded and/or fully insured health and welfare plans. These include:

• Company officers
• Vice presidents and directors of human resources
• Employee benefits/compensation directors, managers and specialists
• CFOs, vice presidents and directors of finance and risk

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Health and Welfare Plan Management for Mid-Sized Employers is proud to welcome BenefitsLink.com as the official media partner for the 2008 Las Vegas program.

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