Health Benefits Cost Containment: The Next Generation of Tools
May 13, 2008
2:00 - 3:00 PM Eastern Time
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How can you offer attractive health benefits without draining company profits and forcing employees to pay exorbitant premiums?
There’s no silver bullet, but many employers are staying ahead of the curve by implementing a combination of cost-saving tools including health risk assessments, analyzing utilization rates, chronic disease management programs, risk management, physician profiling, savvy benefit design, wellness programs, and a strong communications strategy.
You can help determine which of these tools will yield the biggest payoff for your company. Get it right and you can boost your competitiveness by controlling costs and improving recruitment and retention efforts.
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Learning Objectives:
- How can quantifying utilization prevent your company from paying for expensive services that you’re not even using?
- What are the three categories of employees in any given company and how can you save significant money by treating them differently?
- How does an employer effectively implement a chronic disease program that can save big dollars on the most frequent (and most expensive) users of your plan?
- What are the benefit design options that make sense for your member population?
- How can an employer move from year-to-year tactical decision-making to a proactive three-year strategic plan?
- What benchmarks or accountability measures can you use to manage the health plan?
- What are the options for successfully implementing consumer driven health plans?
- How can you use health risk assessments to help your company accurately profile your employee base and determine the most cost-effective plan components?
- Why is it important to understand and measure the performance of physicians?
- What return on investment should be expected from implementing wellness programs?
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Presented by:
Nancy Blough
Exective Vice President
Amerian Health Data Institute
Nancy Blough, JD, MBA is Executive Vice President of the American Health Data Institute. Nancy has spent over twenty years in the health care industry. Her experience as the Deputy State Health Commissioner for Indiana, the Director of Strategy and Design, Ford Motor Company and President of a large benefits administrator have prepared her to work with employers of all sizes who are trying to effectively offer health benefits and build a healthy workforce. Nancy is a national speaker on the topic of employer health benefits and consults with clients of all sizes across the country.
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