Waste Reduction, Cost Analysis, and Employee Wellness Events
Register for upcoming online events and view past web seminars discussing current issues facing Employers.
Understanding the Impact of Pay or Play
Duration: 45 minutes
Thomson Reuters researchers developed a data-driven model that projects the effect of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) tax regulations on employer health plan costs for 2014 – 2020 under a variety of scenarios, using data from the MarketScan® Research Databases. This model addresses:
| • | The direct benefit and tax cost of eliminating group health benefits |
| • | The impact of the Cadillac Tax in 2018 |
| • | The compensatory cost to employees should employers eliminate group health benefits, requiring employees to purchase healthcare through an insurance exchange |
In this timely and informative web seminar, Chris Justice, Senior Director of Analytic Consulting and Research Services, reviews the model’s assumptions, methods, data, and results.
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Health and Productivity Management: An Overview of Current and Future States
Duration: 45 minutes
Shane Sumner, consulting director, and Dr. Michael Taylor, vice president and national business medical leader, address key challenges facing employers today. The speakers cover three separate but overlapping areas of employee health and productivity management:
| • | Physical wellness/disease management |
| • | Integrated absence management |
| • | Psychological and psychosocial health |
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Improve the Health of Healthcare Workers
Duration: 45 minutes
Hospitals and health systems are so focused on patient care, often they find it difficult to make employee wellness a top priority. Learn actionable information that will help you utilize employee data to guide strategic solutions, evaluate wellness incentive programs, and measure the return on these investments.
Eric Parmenter, a national leader in the hospital health system industry and a recognized expert on the impact of Healthcare Reform on health care providers, presents recent data highlighting the health crisis facing healthcare workers. Eric teams with Kreg Sherbine, an expert in health and wellness program evaluation, covering:
| • | Research on the current state of health care workers |
| • | Strategies to develop successful wellness and health management programs unique to hospital environments |
| • | Client case studies including situation, action and result to improve the health, well-being and productivity of health care workers |
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Patient-centered Medical Home and Workforce Health Improvement
Duration: 45 minutes
Learn how employers increasingly recognize the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) as a means to improve workforce health and ultimately control healthcare costs.
Jeff Hanson, Co-Chair, PCPCC Center for eHealth Information Adoption and Exchange and Vice President, Healthcare, presents information from a recent paper he co-authored: Patient-Centered Medical Home Performance Metrics for Employers, reviewing a set of health and productivity metrics that allow employers to develop strategies and measure the outcomes of these programs.
He shares examples of work other organizations have undertaken including their strategies, actions, and results, and review key program components such as:
| • | Identifying and prioritizing a location where medical home might be appropriate |
| • | Reviewing successful strategies for engaging the provider community |
| • | Learning how to establish metrics and use data as the basis for provider incentive compensation |
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Cut the Waste in your Healthcare Spending
Duration: 45 minutes
Dr Raymond Fabius, MD Chief Medical Officer, and Donna Shenoha, VP, Health Promotion Manager, Wells Fargo Bank, discuss actions you can take to address your wasteful health care spending, based on five key strategies. These five strategies are also presented in detail the the white paper, A Path to Eliminating 3.6 Trillion in Wasteful Healthcare Spending.
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How Much Money are You Leaving on the Table?
Duration: 45 minutes
Learn how you can use audit, compliance monitoring, and contracting to immediately remove wasteful spending from your organization. Dana Maul, Vice President, shares examples of work we have completed with other organizations, including their strategies, actions and results.
See how actionable information helps you evaluate past plan performance and provide an enhanced prescription drug audit as well as medical, dental, provider and dependent eligibility audits, including:
| • | Identify and prevent payment problems |
| • | Recover misspent funds |
| • | Improve the quality of healthcare |
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Public Employers: Consumer Activism to Reduce Costs and Change Employee Behavior
Duration: 45 minutes
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)* state benefit plans are facing serious financial pressures. In the past 5 years, a few major developments have attracted the attention of legislatures, public policymakers and governors, including:
| • | Rapidly rising commercial premiums are impacting state budgets; |
| • | State fiscal pressures are leading to more proposals to increase employee share of costs; |
| • | Co-payments and deductibles are on the rise in many places, separate from the established premiums. |
Learn more about how to engage individuals in actively managing their care to stay healthy and save money, help your organization navigate this new era of healthcare consumerism – and maximize your return-on-investment.
*State Employee Health Benefits, National Conference of State Legislatures
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How Organizations Measure and Improve Workforce Wellness
Duration: 45 minutes
Ron Goetzel, Vice President of Healthcare & Science Payer Research and Gary Pickens, Chief Research Officer, discuss the results of the Workforce Wellness Index and its implications to employers, as well as review recent indexes developed specifically for employer clients.