About the Conference

To attract, retain and engage a diverse workforce and create a competitive advantage, the right benefit programs are critical. Join us to learn about the purpose-driven health care strategies and tactics that propel positive business outcomes and enhance the employee experience.

Topics to be covered include:

• Employee impact: Insights from employees about their benefit experiences and the impact on their family and work
• Capitol Hill and health care: All employers “need to know” about the impact of the mid-term elections on employer-sponsored benefits, the Affordable Care Act, the new tax law, regulation and more
• Game changers: Methods, technology and tools shaping future workforces, workplaces and benefits
• The value of inclusion and diversity: Shifts in strategies and tactics to embed an equity mindset into benefits

Highlights: Reality check and nuts-and-bolts sessions:

• Evolved employee experience: Finding the right platforms to engage employees in their benefit programs and to create a simply exceptional employee benefits experience
• Holistic wellbeing: Taking an integrated approach to physical, behavioral/emotional, financial and social wellbeing that meets employees where they are
• Global HR: Learning how HR leaders align, coordinate and effectively administer health care benefit programs around the globe
• Financial safety: Understanding the range of voluntary benefits that can ease diverse employee financial worries and boost financial security
• Care delivery roadmap: Setting a path for employers to successfully uncomplicate the patient care journey
• Applied analytics: Using pinpoint focus to fine-tune solutions that embed best practices and experiences
• Pharmacy and specialty drugs: Synching up cost and utilization solutions with clinical conditions and employee needs

Who Should Attend

This conference is designed exclusively for Heads, VPs, Directors, and Managers of:

• HR
• Benefits
• Compensation
• Wellness
• Total Rewards

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Get Involved!

If you would like to get involved in this year’s conference, please contact us.

• Speaking and Sponsorship Opportunities: gregg.mauro@conferenceboard.org
• Marketing Partnerships: melissa.mianulli@conferenceboard.org

Register Early and Save!

Book your seat by January 25th, 2019 and save $400!

Pre-Conference Workshops:

The Journey to Something Better - The Life Cycle of Benefits Delivered through Great Experiences

March 18, 2019

This year, in both San Diego and New York, you will have the opportunity to attend a preconference workshop focused on benefits delivery strategies throughout your participant’s life cycle of benefit needs from new hire, to important changing life events through retirement.  Attendees will hear from thought leaders, clients and Willis Towers Watson experts on topics such as:

• Benefits as an HR tool: how combining actuarial and health care consulting and analytics, eligibility and enrollment administration and more for simplified administration can positively impact your organization
• The future of health care: federal health care policy and the changing regulatory landscape
• Employee navigation of expanded choice 

More detailed information coming soon.

Improving Employee Engagement by Measuring Benefit Program Results

March 18, 2019

During this workshop you’ll learn from experts and employers how they measure success for both traditional and non-traditional benefits programs. We’ll discuss specific measures and data points, then apply them to your benefits strategy and programs. You’ll have the option of bringing your own vendor data or using our sample data to apply specific analytic strategies, find program ROI, and control for outliers to determine real program performance without bias. Come with an open mind and a willingness to get hands-on.  You’ll learn:

• How to track and measure the success of traditional pharmacy benefits
• What other self-insured employers are doing to find program ROI
• Program vendor data and key metrics to track
• How to apply analytic strategies to your own benefit programs 

Rance Hutchings, PharmD, Chief Clinical Officer, Artemis Health

Primary Care: It's Time to Fix What's Broken with High-Quality, Affordable Care

March 18, 2019

The vision of primary care is a great one. Having a primary care physician lowers the odds of premature death, saves money over the patient’s lifetime, and improves chronic care management. However, the current model is declining for a large and growing portion of the population. Thirty percent of adult Americans and nearly half of millennials don’t have a primary care physician. Compound this with a physician shortfall that’s expected to reach over 100,000 providers in the next decade and it becomes imperative that we address what’s next for primary care. 

In this fast-paced workshop, you’ll learn how a virtual primary care program can meet the needs of your entire employee population and help decrease your company’s healthcare costs. Join this workshop to discuss:

• Why traditional primary care models aren’t working for a large and growing portion of the population.
• The financial impact of inaccessible primary care on your workforce
• How Virtual Primary care complements current care options while improving accessibility, affordability and quality

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