Health Care Innovations Seminar

Continental Breakfast: 7:45 a.m.
Seminar: 8:15 to 11:00 a.m.

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Attend a FREE Healthcare Innovations Seminar to learn how to lower your healthcare costs – without cost shifting to employees. With healthcare and prescription drug costs increasing at unprecedented rates, and the complexity of compliance, the affordability of health plans by employees and the sustainability of plans by employers is in jeopardy.

What You’ll Discover and Learn:

• Cost Plus: How To Dramatically Reduce Hospital and Facility Costs
• Innovative and Cost Effective Plan Design Options
• Cyber Security, Data Protection, and Personnel Management Policies
• Beware: Department Of Labor’s ACA Audit Program
• Wellness Initiatives
• Benefits of Onsite/Near-site Primary Care Clinics: Program Overview and Case Studies
• Why PPOs are Ineffective in Lowering Costs

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.

Taking Charge of Healthcare Costs in a Changing World

Debra Geihsler, Activate Healthcare
Learn about how an onsite/near-site primary care clinic can positively impact the health of your employees while improving the bottom line of your organization.

About Debra Geihsler
Debra Geihsler is the former CEO of the Harvard Vanguard Medical Group in Boston, Massachusetts and Advocate Healthcare in Chicago, Illinois.

In her career as a health care executive, Debra Geihsler, Principal and Co-founder, has personally managed hundreds of primary care clinics, ambulatory clinics, and other similar medical treatment facilities. Her extensive health care background enables her to effectively guide the development and operations of on-site clinics. Ms. Geihsler’s experience allows Activate Healthcare to help the client manage the full range of patient care. This is a critically important factor as most health care costs are incurred outside the clinic. This very perspective allows Activate Healthcare to both lower costs and improve the quality of resulting care across the full spectrum of health services.

What You Need to Know About Compliance

• DOL AUDITS under the Affordable Care Act for Grandfathered and Non-Grandfathered Plans
• Legal Requirements of WELLNESS PROGRAMS and Update on New EEOC Regulations
• Using CYBER SECURITY to protect data and manage personnel

Vivian C. Folk is a partner with Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, Toledo, Ohio. Active in employee benefits for more than 30 years, her law practice is devoted primarily to serving as counsel to employee benefit plans and fiduciary responsibility and prohibited transaction issues. She has spoken extensively in these fields; and is co-author of The Annotated Fiduciary (3rd ed.), and contributing author to the last three editions of the Trustees Handbook and multiple editions of the IF Textbook for Plan Trustees, Administrators and Advisors. Ms. Folk has served as an arbitrator for the AAA Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act Panel. She received her law degree from Case Western University Law School, where she was executive editor of the Law Review.

Scott D. Newsom is a partner in the tax and benefits practice group in the Toledo, Ohio office of Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP. The firm represents approximately 30 multiemployer retirement and health funds located in the Midwest, Northeast and Southeast. A substantial portion of these funds are construction industry funds. Scott has extensive experience in representing boards of trustees of multiemployer retirement and health and welfare plans. The representation covers a wide range of issues including fiduciary compliance, plan design and maintenance (for health and retirement plans), withdrawal liability plan correction and the general legal issues presented to the board of trustees.

Wyatt J. Holliday, CEBS, is an associate in the Benefits/Taft-Hartley and Tax practice group in the Toledo, Ohio office of Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP. His practice is concentrated on employee benefits, executive compensation and multiemployer retirement and health and welfare plans. Mr. Holliday previously worked as a benefits analyst and project manager for a self-administered multiemployer funds office. He received his undergraduate degree from Denison University and his J.D. degree from the University of Toledo College of Law.

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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