The World Health Care Congress 9^th Annual Employer and Public Purchaser Summit is a two day Summit that will provide an opportunity for private and public purchaser executives to uncover and identify next generation benefit design strategies and new methods to cut costs, re-evaluate health care spending, in an effort to adapt, and possibly benefit from the provisions of health reform, and avoid potential penalties. Participants will have the opportunity to hear from the most active and innovative private and public purchase executives representing a variety of industries, populations and demographics on the necessary and appropriate steps and meaningful incentives and disincentives to drive behavior change, encourage healthier living and decisions to help control health care costs.

• How health reform, exchanges and the excise tax are driving the need for new employer approaches to innovative benefit design
• Positions from large employers on the future of employer sponsored benefits
• Participate in a futuristic discussion on how regulation and market movement may impact employer decision-making
• Strategies to align rewards and incentives into benefit design to influence personal health decisions and encourage appropriate utilization of health care services

• Moving toward paying for value - Leveraging an employers’ health care purchasing power to establish standards of quality, and outcomes based care
• The growing trend of innovative employer/provider bundled-care agreements that incentivize provide high-quality, low-cost care
• Centers of Excellence that ensure employees quality care, reduce long-term costs by avoiding readmissions and ensuring swifter returns to work
• Incentivizing employees to use more cost effective treatments and doctors and introducing shared-savings models to reward employees for shopping under referenced pricing

• Detailing the universal drivers of employee engagement – How to sustain and measure results
• Employer case studies on how to improve health and engagement within you organization
• Evaluating effective strategies and solution to revamp benefit design to improve health and sustain costs

• Strategies to develop comprehensive and highly integrated approaches to create a culture of health for employees, families and retirees
• Incentives and disincentive from innovative benefit plans to improve employee health, habits, responsibility and accountability
• Demonstrating ROI from on-site programs with health coaches, pharmacists and EAP counselors
• Aetna’s Choose and Save program and how Aetna has been engaging employees to make better choices regarding doctors, hospitals and treatments
• Health care consumer survey data highlighting price sensitivity and consumer preferences
• Insights into employer strategies for benefit design to ensure engagement among employees

• Understand the cost variables of high-cost, complex conditions
• Identify high-cost disease states using data points beyond traditional medical claims experience, and integrating worker’s compensation, disability and productivity metrics
• Strategize to manage your costliest populations effectively and explore solutions that can bend the cost curve
• Examine population health and condition management through the lens of holistic health and well-being