Conference Highlights: Health & Welfare Plan Management Conference

99% of Past Participants Would Recommend This Program To A Colleague

“This was my first conference and it was wonderful! I learned a lot about benefits and had a chance to work with numerous individuals from all over the U.S. I give this conference an A+.”

Jennifer Boyd
Benefits Specialist
Simpson Housing LLP

Evolving Consumerism Strategies for Mid-Sized Employers
Kevin J. Ruth, Chief Operating Officer
UnitedHealthcare

Kevin Ruth takes a critical look at the current state of employer-sponsored health care benefits. Mr. Burdick shares how strategies focused on consumer engagement, incentives and health advocacy can improve health and productivity, while reducing costs for both the employer and the employees.

From Lift-Off to Landing: Business Intelligence and Your Benefit Programs
Gerald W. Frye, President
The Benefit Services Group, Inc.

The ability to make informed, impactful decisions is central to guiding your employee benefit programs along optimal routes. Mr. Frye discusses how a robust business intelligence focus allows you to apply an evidence-based approach to your planning, renewal and communication processes. This allows for better, long-term alignment of benefit goals and performance with larger corporate objectives. Ultimately, this dynamic decision-support approach can transform the health care discussion from one based primarily on benefit issues to one focused more on health status and health care consumption.

Help Your Employees Become Better Consumers of Health Care
Stephen Neeleman, M.D., Chief Executive Officer
HealthEquity, Inc.

Learn how to provide the education and support your employees need to confidently enter the world of consumer-driven health care and health savings accounts. Dr. Stephen Neeleman, author of The Complete HSA Guidebook, provides a case study defining proven education strategies that provide real value to you and your employees. Additionally, Dr. Neeleman helps you discover the budding industry of personal health care financial services and how these services will affect you and your employees for the better in the very near future.

U.S. Health Care Reform—What to Expect from the Post-Convention Debate in the 2008 Presidential Campaign
Blaine J. Bos, Worldwide Partner
Mercer
Blaine Bos examines the recently formed Democratic and Republican platforms on U.S. health care reform and covers the issue as expressed in speeches made by the presidential candidates and other influential politicians. Discover how the debate on U.S. health care reform is likely to shape up in the coming election.

Finding Them Early: The Role of Health Management in Keeping Employees Healthy
Daniel L. Ober, D.O., Senior Medical Director
CIGNA Health Solutions
Reducing medical costs and improving health is a complex business. Most health programs seek to manage or improve the health of the sickest portion of an employee population. But to truly impact costs long term, health programs need to identify employees before a health event—when they are at risk and the onset of long-term illness is preventable. Dr. Ober discusses the components of health management and how identifying and engaging—at the individual level—those who are healthy and at risk of illness can improve their health and help reduce employer costs.

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Attend this conference to discover how to contain costs AND offer a valued benefit.

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

40+ workshops. A comprehensive schedule of more than 40 workshops allows you to customize your schedule by choosing the topics that are most pertinent to your organization’s needs.
Expert speakers. Representatives from top benefits firms, law firms, the IRS, the DOL and plan sponsors share their knowledge on hot topics in the plan management arena: consumer-driven health care; HSAs and HRAs; cost containment; wellness and disease management; compliance with federal mandates and much more.
Immediate solutions. An emphasis on practical, real-world experience gives you strategies you can take back to the office and implement right away.
Great networking opportunities. Intimate workshop settings, luncheon sessions and evening receptions provide multiple opportunities for one-on-one networking with hundreds of your colleagues from across the nation.
Post-conference resources. Your attendance entitles you to a full year’s access to workshop presentations for all Health and Welfare Plan Management conferences online.

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