Healthcare costs are rising, employee needs are becoming more complex, and adding more benefits is no longer the answer.
Beyond Benefits: Whole Person Health in Practice brings together employers and health experts to explore how organizations can connect care, simplify fragmented benefit ecosystems, and get greater value from their existing investments. From primary care and mental health to obesity, AI, and point-solution fatigue, the conference will focus on practical strategies that improve employee health, experience, and affordability.
Healthcare costs are rising, employee needs are becoming more complex, and adding more benefits is no longer the answer.
Beyond Benefits: Whole Person Health in Practice brings together employers and health experts to explore how organizations can connect care, simplify fragmented benefit ecosystems, and get greater value from their existing investments. From primary care and mental health to obesity, AI, and point-solution fatigue, the conference will focus on practical strategies that improve employee health, experience, and affordability.
Changing the Odds: Lung Cancer, New Advances, and the Employer Experience
Dr. Mark & Dr. Michael will be joined by an expert from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and an employer to explore breakthroughs in lung cancer care alongside the realities of helping employees navigate diagnosis, treatment, and recovery.
As employers face continued healthcare cost pressures, many are looking beyond traditional health plans and vendor arrangements for strategies that can improve access, strengthen prevention, and create greater control over healthcare spending.
Join Northeast Business Group on Health (NEBGH), in partnership with Frier Levitt, for a behind-the-scenes look at how direct contracting works in practice.
Using Boeing's advanced primary care strategy as a real-world case study, this discussion will bring together key participants involved in developing and implementing the arrangement to explore what it takes to move from concept to execution.
Panelists will share perspectives on the employer's objectives, the role of the network convener, and the legal and contracting considerations involved, including challenges encountered, lessons learned, and practical considerations for other employers exploring similar approaches.
The doctors are in!
Dive into hot health topics with the experts and hear what you might need to do for your employees.
NEBGH’s beloved Tribute to Leadership event is a special evening where we celebrate benefit leaders whose commitment to excellence strengthens their organizations, energizes our members, and paves the way for lasting impact. This year we shine a bright light on the heart they bring to their work every day and the connections they build internally and externally to sustain and support the mental and physical wellbeing of their employee-communities.
With projected health benefit cost increases approaching 9% and growing scrutiny around GLP-1 coverage, PBM strategy, and vendor performance, employers are increasingly expected to defend not only outcomes—but the decisions behind them.
Fiduciary responsibility is no longer simply a compliance exercise. It requires documented oversight, transparent decision-making, and governance processes that can withstand CFO, regulatory, and legal review.
This session focuses on what fiduciary proof looks like in practice and how employers and advisors can implement governance frameworks that are continuous, documented, and financially defensible.
"Forget the Myths: What We Know (and What’s Changing) in Alzheimer’s"
Dr. Mark, Dr. Michael, and special guest Sarah Fontaine, PhD (Alzheimer’s Association) cut through the noise on screening, risk reduction, emerging treatments, and what the latest science really means for patients—and the workforce.
"Alcohol: How Much Is Too Much?”
Join Dr. Mark & Dr. Michael and experts as they dissect and cut through the noise on ‘safe’ drinking levels and the often overlooked link to cancer risk.
"Dr. AI Will See You Now....Maybe"
An expert joins Dr. Mark to sort the science from the Silicon Valley spin on artificial intelligence in medicine – what is the hype and what are the real ways AI is shaping how medicine is practiced.
Health policy is moving quickly, and employers are feeling the ripple effects. Join Christine Worthen and Alan Arville of Epstein Becker Green for a timely policy briefing designed specifically for employers. Hosted by Kim Thiboldeaux, NEBGH CEO, this webinar will break down complex developments into clear, practical insights you can use.