Knock Out Waste in Healthcare Spending: Employer Strategies That Pack a Punch!
Are you getting value from each healthcare dollar you spend? Do you feel confident your employees are getting the right care early on, and not cycling through unnecessary treatments and visits? How do you figure out where to start when it comes to identifying unneeded expenditures?
Recent estimates indicate that waste — which includes services that offer little or no clinical benefit to your employees — accounts for as much as 30% of healthcare spending.
Join us for our 7th Annual Conference and learn how you can deliver a big “one-two punch” to healthcare waste in your organization!
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Registration and Breakfast
Welcome
The Main Event: Truth Through Transparency
Introductions
Keynote Speaker
Marty Makary, MD, has been accused of exposing the “medical code of silence.” He’ll give us the blow-by-blow on why and where wasteful spending occurs and how to deliver a successful counterpunch!
Round I General Session: Going the Distance: Delivery System Accountability
Moderator
Panelists
Health plans and purchasers are turning to ACOs, narrow networks and patient-centered medical homes as alternatives to a broken traditional healthcare delivery system. By definition, the aim is reducing costs, waste and harm to patients. How’s it working?
Networking Break with Exhibitors
Round II General Session: Make Your Employees Contenders: Choosing the Right Care at the Right Time
Moderator
Panelists
Employees need information – and often a trusted champion – to navigate a complex healthcare delivery system. Mistakes can be costly for them and for your organization. How can you help employees make the right choices – especially when they are down for the count?
Lunch Buffet
Game Show Trivia Contest: So You Think You Know Healthcare?
Speaker
Al Lewis is a bestselling healthcare author and a host of various quiz shows. Join us for some fun with a live health care trivia contest!
A. Knock Out Pharmacy Waste
Moderator
Panelists
Don’t throw in the towel on pharmacy waste! There are steps you can take to make sure your PBM is effectively managing the dollars you spend on drugs – and giving you the transparency you need to understand what’s happening and why. Come away from this session with a list of questions you need to be asking your PBM!
B. Get Care That Matters for Behavioral Health Issues
Moderator
Panelists
Pamela Corson, Ph.D., LPC, CADC, CEAP
Employees with mental health issues or those suffering from drug addiction often deal with “care” that is high cost and low value. So what can you do to make sure people access the help they need without paying for unnecessary services, uncoordinated care and low-quality providers? Employers tell us what works!
C. Help Your Global Travelers Go Toe-to-Toe with Unexpected Expenses
Moderator
Sandi Stein
Panelists
Are you prepared for unexpected injuries and illnesses that may occur while your employees travel on international business? Where can they get appropriate care? Will they need transportation? Do they speak the local language? How will international providers get paid? What other pitfalls and dangers do global travelers face? In this session you will learn how to enhance your travel program to protect global business travelers.
Transitions to Next Breakout
Concurrent Breakout Sessions Repeat
Networking Break with Exhibitors
General Session: Make Sure Low-Value Clinical Services Go Down for the Count
Moderator
Panelists
Where do you start when it comes to identifying categories of clinical services that you are paying for – but deliver little or no value to your employees? Here are action plans you can put in place NOW to make sure you’re not contributing to the more than $25 billion in avoidable annual healthcare expenditures.