|
|
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
|
|
|
7:00 am
|
|
|
|
7:45 am
|
|
|
8:00 am - 8:30 am
|
|
|
8:30 am - 9:25 am
|
Employer Strategic Decision-Making & Innovation in a New Age of Reform |
- Evaluating cost-drivers versus the competitive value of offering employee benefits – the reinvestment of benefit and compensation dollars as reform is operationalized
- Trends driving a new health care market for employers – prevention and wellness, medical travel, outcomes-based contracting
- Recognize metrics that drive health plan efficiency and value
- Aligning incentives to control health cost trends and advance sustainable accountability among employees, plan sponsors, and providers
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9:30 am - 10:00 am
|
|
|
10:05 am - 11:00 am
|
|
|
11:05 am - 12:00 pm
|
|
|
12:00 pm - 1:10 pm
|
|
|
1:15 pm - 2:05 pm
|
|
|
2:05 pm - 2:25 pm
|
|
|
2:25 pm - 4:05 pm
|
|
|
4:10 pm - 4:55 pm
|
MARKET INSIGHT SEMINARS (Choose 1 of 3) |
Correlating Medical Cost-Savings & Productivity with Prevention Approaches through Health Partner’s Optimal Lifestyle Metric (OLM) |
- A new, simple approach to measuring lifestyle indicators
- Examine population health prevalence indicators, associations with chronic conditions, emotional health indicators, and costs
- How employers can implement OLM as a highly engaging, changeable approach to lifestyle improvement
|
|
|
Nico Pronk, PhD, FACSM, FAWHP
Vice President, Health Promotion
Health Partners

View Biography
|
Panel Discussion - Achieving Health Value through Accountable Care
|
- Benefit design and opportunities for cost containment and improved health outcomes in Accountable Care Organizations – what purchasers need to understand
- Breaking it down to key impacts for HR/benefit executives and opportunities for 2012 benefit designs
- Strategies to overcome barriers – engagement, risk management, integration
|
|
Brian Klepper, PhD
Managing Principal
Healthcare Performance Inc.

View Biography
|
|
|
|
5:00 pm - 5:45 pm
|
|
|
5:45 pm - 7:00 pm
|
|
|
|
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
|
|
7:30 am - 8:25 am
|
|
|
8:30 am - 9:15 am
|
|
|
9:15 am - 10:15 am
|
|
|
10:15 am - 11:15 am
|
|
|
11:15 am - 11:45 am
|
|
|
11:50 am - 12:45 pm
|
|
|
12:45 pm - 2:00 pm
|
|
|
2:05 pm - 3:45 pm
|
|
|
3:50 pm - 4:30 pm
|
MARKET INSIGHT SEMINARS |
Specialty Pharmacy & Biologics: Developing Employer Policies to Manage an Explosion in Rx Drug Costs |
- The data and evolution of specialty drugs – biologics, biosimilars, follow-on biologics, and status of drugs in the pipeline
- Understanding benefit design financing to contain the exposure to rising costs
- Examples of employer purchasing collaboratives to decrease plan risk and costs
|
|
|
F. Randy Vogenberg, RPh, PhD
Executive Director
Biologic Finance & Access Council Jefferson School of Population Health

View Biography
|
Data Warehousing: Simplify Access to Population Health Data |
Genetic Testing: The Opportunities & Implications for Employer Benefit Designs & Wellness Initiatives |
New Trends in Wellness—Global Best Practices and Emerging Ideas |
- Learn about the latest global trends in health promotion strategy based on recent data collected from more than 1,200 employers in 50 countries
- Understand why the business case for improving health is becoming more critical than ever for business leaders
- Discover the latest techniques – from incentive research and cognitive psychology – to effectively motivate employee engagement and behavior change
|
|
|
Barry Hall, FSA, MAAA
Principal
Buck Consultants

View Biography
|
|
|
|
4:35 pm - 5:30 pm
|
Keynote—Containing Costs in Retiree Health Care Plan Design |
- Assess new legislation and the impact to pre and post-65 retiree health – Medicare Advantage, Insurance Exchanges, RDS and early-retiree reinsurance
- Capitalize on opportunities in the individual market
- Implement Retiree Medical Trusts and other defined contribution approaches to cap liabilities
|
| Panelists |
|
|
William Ashmore
Chief Executive Officer
Alabama State Employees' Insurance Board

View Biography
|
|
|
Irene Immerman
Senior Vice President, Compensation and Benefits
KeyBank
|
|
|
John Slattery
Director, Benefits Department
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
|
| Additional Executive Panelists TBA |
|
|
|
|
Thursday, February 3, 2011
|
|
7:30 am - 8:15 am
|
INVITATIONAL BREAKFASTS |
Design Outcome-Based Rewards to Maximize Impact |
Integrate a Work-Life Balance Strategy to Enhance Employee Performance & Well-Being |
Assess Onsite Clinic Feasibility, Develop Action Goals & Measure Results |
Leverage Health Coaching to Engage Employees & Achieve Behavior Change |
|
|
|
8:20 am - 8:30 am
|
|
|
8:30 am - 9:15 am
|
|
|
9:20 am - 9:50 am
|
|
|
9:50 am - 10:45 am
|
|
|
10:45 am - 11:15 am
|
|
|
11:20 am - 12:00 pm
|
Advances in Value-Based Insurance Design Under New Legislation |
- How Value Based Insurance Design is being implementing in health reform
- Expansion of Value-Based Insurance Design beyond drugs – wellness, selection of networks and hospitals
- Integration of VBID in other health reform initiatives – Patient Centered Medical Home, Health Information Technology, Comparative Effectiveness Research
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
12:05 pm - 1:00 pm
|
|
|
|
1:15 pm
|
|