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31. The High-Wire Act: Balancing Employee and Corporate Leadership Wants/Needs
A fellow plan sponsor walks you through resources intended to help you with benchmarking your benefits offerings and preparing proposals that will survive senior management cuts. Learn how to package a program that offers employees reasonable costs, whittles away at the entitlement feature and uses clear-cut data to make the case for financing the proposed programs.
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32. A Regulatory Update for Health and Welfare Plans
Review the latest compliance requirements and developments. Learn about important changes in such areas as COBRA, HIPAA, HSAs, FSAs and other federal regulations that may change the way you manage your plan.
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33. Mining Gold in Your Health and Welfare Plans
There’s a gold mine of cost savings in most employee benefit plans if you know where to look. Before you start thinking about reducing benefits or shifting cost to your employees, hear how to dig out those hidden gems. Learn valuable techniques from an employee benefits professional with more than 35 years of experience. Discover how to conduct an in-depth review and analysis of your plans, including internal administrative efficiency, plan design cost effectiveness and legal compliance.
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34. PBMI Pricing and Compensation Models Series 101
Balancing quality and cost is always a challenge for plan sponsors. Reducing pharmacy benefit expenditures requires an understanding of the pricing formulas used in the PBM industry. Find out how to negotiate better pharmacy benefit contracts and lower prescription drug costs. A combination of examples and interactive discussions reveals how you can identify pharmacy cost drivers and learn how to use the pharmacy benefit to drive down other health care costs.
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35. Use Health Care Data to Effectively Identify, Monitor and Measure Wellness and Disease Management Programs
Health care costs continue to rise, and as employers search for solutions to mitigate this trend, they are quickly learning there is not a one-solution-fits-all remedy. This session explores how using health care data can help identify trends in your population and implement wellness and disease management programs to address your specific issues. Hear how data can identify employees who are not currently at high risk and spotlight methods for keeping them healthy. Additionally, learn how to identify chronic conditions to determine disease management effectiveness, match claims to employee lifestyles, increase effectiveness of interventions, model benefit adjustments and benchmark experience to identify aberrations.
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