Innovative Healthcare Strategies Seminar

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:

• Contrasting Unbundled vs. Bundled Partially Self Funded Plans,
• Why to utilize only Best In Class vendors,
• Innovative and cost effective plan design options,
• Programs to dramatically lower Hospital/Facility costs,
• How stop loss underwriting works,
• Why PPOs are ineffective in lowering costs,
• A formula to actually reduce your healthcare costs in the future,
• Amendment 69 discussion

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 plan. We hope you’re able to make it!

Presentations

A New Approach

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

About Frank Stichter
Frank serves the employee benefit healthcare needs of employers nationally, consulting on the identification and implementation of innovative and compelling savings opportunities for self-funded employers, rather than traditional cost shifting.  He has nearly 40 years experience working with public and private sector employers and their partially self funded health plans.

One Self Insured Group Plan Story:  A 10 Year Journey

Rob Sachs Chief Operating Officer, Dalby, Wendland & Co., P.C.
Learn about the journey of a business’s self funded plan – what went right and what to watch out for

About Rob Sachs
Before starting his journey with health plans, Rob was a water-boy for his Dad’s sports teams, weeded John Fischer’s apple trees in 110 degree summers, and finally ended this part of his career helping Mr. Reynolds clear out the bats in his barn.  None of those experiences helped him be drafted by the Denver Broncos, so he moved on to business.

For  the past 40 years,  Rob has managed strategy and operations for several medical, accounting, and law firms.  In 2004 he became Chief Operating Officer for Dalby, Wendland & CO, PC, a regional public accounting firm, with offices in Grand Junction, Glenwood Springs, and Montrose.

Rob and his wife, Moira, met in college and have been dating every since.  They have two children and a four year old grandson.  After each energy filled visit by their  grandson, they are always left wondering, “what in the world just happened?”  Sort of like being plan administrator for a self-insured health plan…

What Rob will talk about:  One Self Insured Group Plan Story: A 10 Year Journey

• Do You Like Adventure? —  Sometimes It Depends On Where You Want To Go
• Who’s With You?  —  Your Outcome Will  Depend On It
• How Do You Know What You Don’t Know? – Bring A Survival Kit
• You’ve  Made It To The  Top, Now What? – Back to Base Camp

Stop Loss 101

Scott Eastland President, Aran Insurance Underwriters
Learn about all the aspects of underwriting stop loss contracts and how to obtain the most competitive pricing

About Scott Eastland
Scott was appointed the President of Aran Insurance Underwriters at the time of the company’s creation in May of 2005. Scott is one of three partners in Aran Insurance Services which owns Aran Insurance Underwriters, Health Management Partnership, and MiniCo.  In his role as President of Aran Insurance Underwriters, Scott is responsible for providing the firm’s strategic direction and ensuring profitability on both an operational as well as an underwriting basis.

Scott has 22 years of experience in the employee-benefits industry, the last 20 of which have been in the underwriting field.  His broad underwriting background includes underwriting HMO coverage on both a staff model as well as fee-for-service basis, underwriting medical stop loss coverage, developing pricing and operational underwriting manuals, and fifteen years of managing underwriting departments.

Scott received his M.B.A. from Arizona State University in 1999 where he was a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society and also holds a B.A. in finance from the University of North Dakota.  He is a Fellow with the Life Management Institute; and is an Associate with the Health Insurance Association of America.

What Scott will talk about:  Stop Loss 101

• Stop loss defined
Types of Coverage
• Specific stop loss

– Allocation of risk (plan vs stop loss carrier)
– Cash flow

• Aggregate stop loss

– Allocation of risk (plan vs stop loss carrier)
– Cash flow

• Contract Basis
• Common Myths
• Cost Plus’ Impact

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Includes Continental Breakfast

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