Evidence, Insight and Strategy for Optimizing Health Benefits

Plan sponsors utilize a wide array of vendors and partners to deliver benefits and programs to members. Managing these vendors diligently and proactively is a challenge for even the most seasoned benefits professionals. We will focus on best practices for managing procurement of services and highlight how to measure and improve performance over time.

Bundled payment is an important component of a value-based purchasing strategy. However, implementation, administration and evaluation of these programs can be complex. This session will review the research on bundled payment and examine approaches that purchasers have taken to make these programs successful.

Please note that an RSVP is required for this event.

Transportation will be provided.

Growing loneliness and social isolation has precipitated a public health crisis, and the workplace is far from immune. This session will explore how the mental and physical health challenges of loneliness impact cost and productivity of the workforce and what employers can do to address this.

Wellness strategies in the workplace have evolved significantly as employers and other group benefit plan sponsors seek to contain medical spending upstream. This session will help plan sponsors think about the business case for workplace wellness programs as well as how to evaluate vendor claims.

We will review trends in prices, usage, and spending of prescription drugs in the U.S.; examine implications of the prescription drug life cycle and complex pharmaceutical supply chain; and explore differences in prescription drug reimbursement between public and private payers. In addition, we will review upcoming policy changes included in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

The recent insights of behavioral economists and others who study consumer choice and engagement can inform anyone who designs or buys health benefits. This session will examine the insights of behavioral economics and how they are being applied to health benefits decisions, consumer engagement strategies and therapeutic adherence.

Several “tech giants”–Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle–have made major investments in health care. These organizations bring significant financial resources, talent, innovation ability and new ideas to the industry. They could unleash an era of accelerated digital transformation of health care.

This session will review examples of digital transformation in health care, discuss the strategies and impact of the tech giants, identify digital transformation success factors and review how established companies (providers, purchasers, medical equipment companies) should react to the moves of the tech giants.

Learn about the knowledge gaps consumers have to fill in order to make decisions in health care, why shopping tools have traditionally never worked and what new-age tools can do.

Please note that an RSVP is required for this event.

Transportation will be provided to and from the event.

Maternal mortality rates have been rising precipitously in the United States, and research shows major disparities in outcomes by socioeconomic status. This session will explore this data and discuss how plan sponsors and purchasers can act to improve these outcomes.

Instructor
Neel Shah, M.D., MPP
Chief Medical Officer, Maven Clinic
Assistant Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School