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The 8<sup>th</sup> Annual Employer and HR/Benefits Summit

The WHCC 8th Annual Employer and HR/Benefits Summit convenes over 150 senior level HR and Purchasing executives focused on improving benefit design, employee productivity, cost effectiveness and promoting health and wellness. Coalition executives and Employer Corporate Medical Directors, CEOs and CFOs, Purchasing executives are in attendance, as well as Vice Presidents and Directors of Human Resources and Benefits, Wellness and Health Promotion and Disease Management from the nation's largest employer organizations.

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Chair: Elizabeth Mitchell
Chief Executive Officer
Maine Health Management Coalition
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Monday, April 4, 2011
2:00 pm -
2:55 pm
Next Generation Value-Based Benefits—Lowering Costs and Improving Health
  • Addressing the need to shift focus to health, not health care including in-depth results from Pitney Bowes and Cleveland Clinic prevention programs.
  • Strategies to align rewards and incentives into benefit design to influence personal health decisions and encourage appropriate utilization of health care services
  • Comprehensive data-driven approaches to study employee populations to help prioritize health management investments
  • Cleveland Clinic's efforts to establish and promote wellness initiatives that support their mission as a healthcare provider, including providing a healthy environment for employees, visitors and patients
Andrew Gold
Executive Director, Global Benefits Planning
Pitney Bowes
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Joseph M. Patrnchak
Chief Human Relations Officer
The Cleveland Clinic
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3:00 pm -
4:00 pm
Driving Innovations in Employee Engagement through a Holistic Approach to Health and Well-being
  • Insights into Target's journey to create a three-tiered approach to health and well-being
  • Successful program development for the whole person – Incorporating the role of physical, emotional and social factors to effectively measure overall well-being
  • Understanding the science behind well-being – Detailing the relationship between employee engagement and business results
Steve Lafferty
Director, Benefits
Target
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Moderator:
Chris Cigarran
Vice President, Employer Market
Healthways
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
10:40 am -
11:35 am
Integrated Platforms for Prevention and Wellness Program Success to Ensure a Culture of Health
  • Empowering individuals to better manage chronic conditions through new models of patient-centered care and informed patient decision making
  • Effective employer tools including details on IBI’s Full Cost Estimator (FCE) to help employers better understand all of their health and productivity costs
  • The American Express story - Details in the Healthy Living Program, including weight loss, tobacco cessation and stress management resources that has demonstrated healthier employees and lowered health care costs
  • Strategies to coordinate suppliers to better manage the cost and efficiency of health, disability and absence-management programs
    • IBI resources to be distributed at this session demonstrating specific approaches to achieve improved results through supplier coordination
Thomas Parry Thomas Parry, PhD
President
Integrated Benefits Institute
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Speaker Photo Unavailable Anita J. Shaughnessy
Vice President, U.S. Healthcare and Wellness
American Express
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Moderator:
Tom Underwood
Chief Executive Officer
Alere Health
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11:40 am -
12:35 pm
Benefits Financing—Divergent Employer Retiree Strategies Under Health Reform
  • Financing strategies to manage retiree benefits and to alternative plan design including HRAs
  • Tools to ensure benefit plans will meet the long-term retirement needs of their employees
  • Insights into post-reform CFO investment benefit considerations
Leading Health Care Executives TBA Leading Health Care Executives TBA
2:50 pm -
3:35 pm
Incentives in Benefit Design—Optimal Design Impacting Health Care Costs and Improved Outcomes
  • Carrots vs. sticks - Identifying meaningful and appropriate incentives for increased consumer engagement
  • Perspectives on microeconomic and behavioral economics to motivate change
  • Results from innovative benefit plans that utilize incentives and disincentives to create improvements in employee health, habits, responsibility and accountability
  • Insight into Unilever’s UNICare Integrated Health Management Program – How continual updates and innovative approaches to the incentive strategy has demonstrated ROI on medical spend
Tami Graham Tami Graham
Global Benefits Design Director
Intel
Pascale Thomas
Director, Global Healthcare & Benefits NA
Unilever
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
10:35 am -
11:30 am
HealthAhead—Enabling Health Improvements through Innovative Engagement Strategies
  • Detailing GE’s commitment to primary prevention including new plan design strategies, employee tools, education and lifestyle coaches to help guide improved health decisions
  • Insight into the 50--point checklist of health and wellness-related measures, including subsidized healthy foods in cafeterias and lower-cost fitness center options
  • How the HealthAhead program could lead to an annual savings of as much as $75 million while nurturing a culture of health and wellness sustainability that benefits employee health
    Benjamin H. Hoffman Benjamin H. Hoffman, MD, MPH
    Global Chief Medical Officer
    GE Energy
    11:30 am -
    12:15 pm
    Purchaser's Role to Drive Delivery-System Reform and Establish Standards for Accountable Care
    • Details into Maine’s Employee Health & Benefits 5 year pilot to establish quality standards based on a tiered performance criteria for hospitals and physicians
    • Progressive purchaser/provider partnerships to drive efficiencies and improve access and cost in health care
    • Leveraging health care purchasing power to establish standards of quality, cost-effective care
    Frank A. Johnson
    Executive Director, Office of Employee Health & Benefits
    State of Maine
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