The World Congress 2nd Annual Executive Forum on Outcomes-Driven Health Care & Benefit Design
Organized By
Educational Underwriters
Partners
Exhibitor
Affiliation Partners
Health Plan Market Trends Letter
WHCC Health Innovations

Day 1

Wednesday, July 25, 2012
7:00 am -
7:55 am
Registration and Welcome Coffee in the Executive Networking Lounge
(Co-Located with the Employee Health Engagement Congress)
8:15 am -
9:10 am
OPENING KEYNOTES
(Co-Located with the Employee Health Engagement Congress)
The Future and Employer Strategic Planning: Health Reform, Private Exchanges, Defined Contribution…and Achieving a Competitive Workforce in a Global Economy
Industry analysts say Summer 2012 could be a “historic” time for health care.

The Executive Forum kicks off with two insiders and big thinkers, painting futuristic scenarios for how regulation and market transformation could impact employer-based health care. The scenarios will centered on:
  • Delivery system change: transparency, PCORI, primary care, payment reform – How should employers redesign benefits to maximize every dollar spent?
  • How should employers innovate so they can preserve benefits?
  • How might larger employers use the exchanges? What are the implications of a defined contribution model?
  • Is a private exchange a developing option?
  • How is the Cadillac Tax driving a need for new employer solutions?
  • What will changes mean for the future of employee engagement in health, wellness and worksite clinic services?
Lawrence M. Becker
Director and Chairman Plan Administration Committee
Xerox
Board of Governors
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)
Board Member
National Quality Forum
William E. Kramer
Vice President of National Health Policy
Pacific Business Group on Health
9:15 am -
10:15 am
The Innovation Catalyst in Your Organization: Transformation through Worksite Health, Strong Plan Design and Outcomes-Driven Employee Wellness

How does your company make decisions? What is the value placed on your employees? How risk-adverse is your company? Does your corporate culture allow you to push the envelope? Where are the catalysts for innovation – not just in health care – but over all at your company? What problem are you trying to solve?

Strategic decision-making around the future of health care benefits and the value of on-site health services requires analysis of these critical questions. This Keynote Discussion will:

  • Provide strategic thinking to assess the types of solutions most relevant for individual corporate goals and culture
    • Do you want to drive systematic change, or looking for integrated “bolt-on” solutions?
  • Position worksite health as an integrated solution, showcasing avenues to bridge the gap between on-site services, wellness and benefit design
  • Discuss channels for actionable employer health innovation
Tami Graham Tami Graham
Director, Employee Benefits
Intel Corporation
Tammy Green, MPH
Director, Employee Health Services
Providence Health System
10:15 am -
10:45 am
Networking Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
(Co-Located with the Employee Health Engagement Congress)
10:45 am -
11:40 am
High Performing Health Care Systems: Identify High-Leverage Actions that Employers can take to Drive Improved Quality and Affordability
  • Recognize that huge variations exist in care delivery in terms of outcomes, quality, and net cost
  • Identify the implications for employer and employee costs and health
  • Describe metrics and benchmarks to evaluate provider incentives and performance
  • Explore ways to ensure consumer access to meaningful health care performance information
  • Understand levers employers can pull for optimal impact such as tiered networks, value-based benefit design, reference pricing, care delivery innovations, and provider incentives
Andrea Dilweg
Program Director
Catalyst for Payment Reform
William E. Kramer
Vice President of National Health Policy
Pacific Business Group on Health
11:45 am -
12:30 pm
High Performing Benefit Designs
Outcomes-Driven Plan Design: Reference-Based Pricing and “Steerage” through Incentives: Superior Care at Lower Costs through Plan Design
  • Discover employee experiences, cost and health outcomes from reference-based pricing designs, providing cost-differentials for hip, knee, back and heart procedures
  • Leveraging benefit design incentives for high quality/lower cost commodity purchasing (CT scans, MRIs, colonoscopies)
  • Gain insight into efforts to drive transparency and bring rationality to pricing structures through benefit design incentives (and disincentives)
  • Capitalizing on data to promote utilization of high value providers and services
  • Discuss future expansion and employee communication lessons learned
Kathleen Donneson, CPHIT, CPEHR
Chief, Office of Health Plan Administration
California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS)
Jeff Kluever Jeff Kluever
Risk Manager
Journal Communications, Inc.
12:30 pm -
1:45 pm
Luncheon Keynote: Applying Evidence-Based Medicine and Shared Decision-Making to Plan Design for Better Health Outcomes
1:45 pm -
2:30 pm
Accelerating Value and Transparency in Accountable Care: Value-Based Benefit Designs in Selections of Networks and Providers
  • Expand value-based health care beyond drugs to create high-performing networks and plan designs
  • Align transparency tools with consumer-driven health plans to support decision-making
  • Leverage benefit incentives to promote high value services – primary care, chronic condition management, wellness
  • Integration of Value-Based Insurance Design in health reform initiatives, including Patient-Centered Medical Home
  • Quantify the impact on health and productivity outcomes, quality indicators, and trends in health care costs
Nathan Moracco
Director, Employee Insurance Division
State of Minnesota
Chris Riedl
Head of Enterprise Medical Products
Aetna
2:30 pm -
3:15 pm
“Centers of Expertise” and Domestic Medical Travel Benefits: Future Strategies, Opportunities and Results for Employers and Employees
  • Explore the market and the potential opportunity to meet the needs and priorities of your organization and corporate culture
  • Discuss a tactical plan and structuring contracts – procedures, case rates, liability, network management, follow up care
  • Considerations for selecting partners - hospitals and health systems, third-party administrators, consultants
  • Examine employer-relevant metrics: cost, outcomes, employee satisfaction and return to work
Speaker Photo Unavailable Missy Jarrott
Director of Human Resources
Chatham Steel Corporation
Dora Judy
Vice President, Health & Welfare and Retirement
Alpha Natural Resources
3:15 pm -
3:45 pm
Networking Break in the Executive Networking Lounge
(Co-Located with the Employee Health Engagement Congress)
3:45 pm -
4:30 pm
Market Insight Seminar: Driving Smart Health Care Purchase Decisions Through Cost Transparency Tools
4:35 pm -
5:30 pm
Closing Keynote
(Co-Located with the Employee Health Engagement Congress)
Behavioral Economics & the Consumer: Capitalize on the New Frontier of Employees Empowered to Manage Health and Healthcare Purchase Decisions
  • Apply actionable behavioral economics principles to insert yourself in the decision-making process and influence behavior
  • Provide cost transparency and consumer-driven tools to empower employees
  • Align the clinic with benefit design and wellness incentives
  • Achieve an engaged, accountable workforce – resulting in lower employer and employee costs
5:30 pm -
6:45 pm
Cocktail Reception in the Executive Networking Lounge
(Co-Located with the Employee Health Engagement Congress)