Self-Funded, Money-Smart: Health Care Innovations Seminar – Durango

What You’ll Discover and Learn:

• How to best select and utilize Pharmacy Benefit Managers
• What makes PBMs different
• Innovative and cost effective plan design options
• Why PPOs are ineffective in lowering costs
• How to best select Best In Class Service Providers
• Who can “talk the talk’ but can’t “walk the walk”
• Programs to dramatically lower Hospital costs
• How to save big dollars and lower the risk to your plan for Dialysis and Oncology
• Strategies to avoid the Cadillac Tax

Come discuss the latest topics in health plan design, network, and enjoy a nice meal, all while learning how to save money on your health care needs. We hope you’re able to make it!

Presentations

A New Approach

Frank Stichter with Strategic Healthplan Consulting LLC
Drawing from his experience in Self-Funding and Healthcare Risk Management Programs, Frank will discuss his innovative blueprint to rock the way businesses look at their health care plans.

About Frank Stichter
Frank serves the employee benefit needs of Colorado’s Western Slope region, consulting on the identification and implementation of innovative and compelling savings opportunities for self-funded employers, rather than traditional cost shifting.  He has over 35 years experience working with public and private sector employers and their partially self funded health plans.

Strategies to Lower Your Pharmacy Benefits Costs

Mike Sugden with National CooperativeRx
With prescription drug costs rising dramatically, it’s important to have a strong pharmacy benefits plan in place. This presentation will review specialty drugs and strategies to help lower your risk. Additionally, it will review how adherence affects both your medical and drug plan cost, and how promoting generic utilization can help keep pharmacy costs in check.

About Mike Sugden
As Sales Leader of National CooperativeRx, Mike leads the sales team to grow the membership of National CooperativeRx. With each added member, that’s more negotiating power the cooperative gains. Mike comes to National CooperativeRx with many years of experience in the health care industry. Most recently, he was the National VP of Broker Strategy and Development within a similar organization, where he was responsible for developing a national broker distribution network.

Applying Fiscal Discipline to Health Plans: Control Your Plan Costs

C. Woody Waters, III with ELAP Services LLC
In these days of sky rocketing health insurance costs and the new coverage requirements that PPACA (ObamaCare) imposed, company leaders may need to exercise the same fiscal discipline over their health plan that they apply to all other areas of their business.  What steps are you taking to control your plan costs?

About C. Woody Waters, III
In November, 2002 Woody co-founded ELAP Services LLC, which acts as an outsourced fiduciary to employers that self-fund their health plans.  ELAP assists its clients with coverage- and payment-determinations and is the nation’s pioneer in metric-based claims reimbursement.  ELAP clients typically see $125 PePm in claims savings in year-1, with 0-3% increases in subsequent plan years.

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