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Agenda
8:00 am
Conference Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:50 am
Chairperson's Opening Remarks
Speaker: Grace-Marie Turner,
President, Galen Institute, Inc
9:00 am
State of the Consumer-Driven Health Care Market
• A brief history of consumer-driven health care
• Overview of how these plans work
• Are these plans lowering health care costs?
• Cost shifting debate-what's the consensus
• Expectations
Speaker: Joe Martingale, National Practice Leader for Health Care Strategy,
Watson Wyatt
Worldwide
9:45 am
Offering a Consumer-Driven Health Plan
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Why are you adding/switching to a CDHP?
• Utilizing focus groups to discover what employees want
• Impact on usage of prescription drugs, physician services & hospital care
• How do these plans affect quality of care?
• Adding new benefits to stimulate employee participation
• Providing training sessions for HR managers
Speaker: Stephen F. Wiggins, Founder, HealthMarket
10:30 am Morning Break
10:45 am
Plan Design
• Considerations and factors that will influence level of success: plan design options, contribution strategy, group size, trend, rate and product history
• Goals & objectives
• Employee income levels, demographics
• Employer/Employee economics of CDH Plans
• HSAs vs HRAs: reduced costs, tax benefits
• Labor agreements
• How will you communicate to the employees?
Speaker: Doug Pridgen, Area Vice President, Gallagher Benefit Services, Inc.
11:45 am
A Sneak Peek? Potential Liability Issues and Concerns Under CDH Plans
• Managed care and liability - the historic roots
• State of current managed care liability
• CDH plan design and theories of liability
• CDH plan process and the creation of unintended liability consequences
• Pre-emptive actions by plan designers and sponsors
Speaker: Gary Scott Davis, P.A.,
Partner, McDermott Will & Emery LLP
12:30 pm
Luncheon for Delegates and Speakers
1:30 pm
Engaging Employees in the Health Care Decision Process
• Employee education
• Communication: webcasts, email broadcasts, face to face discussions
• Enrollment: securing employee receptivity
• Changing employee behavior
• Promoting consumerism
• Helping employees understand differences between current plan and future CDH plan
• Incentives
Speakers: Ron Kleiman, President, BenefitVision
Steven M. Zucker, Vice President, Definity Health
2:15 pm
Conducting Health Plan ROIѕ Traditional vs. Consumer-Driven
• Does company size matter?
• Measuring the risk of adding a consumer-driven plan
• Addressing adverse selection issues: risk ratings, risk adjustments
• Financial monitoring and discount analysis
Speakers: Michael Higgins, Vice President of Large Group,
Blue Cross of California
2:45 pm
Next Generation Consumer Directed Healthcare - Strategy and Operational Implications
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What are the forces shaping today's trends in healthcare consumerism and population health management?
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How will this movement evolve to build on the successes and improve on the challenges in today's consumer directed healthcare market?
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What are the practical issues that employers need to know as they implement the next generation of consumer directed healthcare?
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What are the critical success factors to move forward?
Speakers: Michael J. Thompson, FSA, MAAA,
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
3:15 pm
Afternoon Break
3:30 pm
Selecting a Consumer-Driven Health Benefits Company
• RFP process
• Analyzing vendor track record
• Technology capability
Speaker: Christopher Calvert, Senior Health Consultant,
The Segal Company
4:00 pm
Consumer Choice Pharmacy Benefits
• Taking a stepwise approach to CDH
• Enhancing consumerism in the pharmacy benefit
• Introducing an account based approach for pharmacy benefits
Speaker: Suzanne Watkins, PharmD, MBA, Director, Strategic Program Development,
Walgreens Health Initiatives
4:30 pm
The Great Race: Vehicles to Arrive at Consumer-Driven Health Care
• What are your options in consumer-driven health?
• Designing consumer-driven vehicles
• Tools available for implementing HSAs
• Investment vehicles tied to HSAs
Speaker: David A. Benoit, Counsel, Alston & Bird
Saul Ben-Meyer, Partner, Alston & Bird
5:15 pm
Conference Concludes
*agenda
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