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PRESS RELEASE: National Employee Benefits Summit Features Health Benefit Management and Health Care Consumerism
  • The Leading Forum for Employers Focusing on Current Employee Benefits Trends, Issues and Solution
  • June 19 - 21, 2007
  • Hilton Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
  • www.BenefitsSummit.com
PRESS RELEASE
Phone: 800-684-4549
Email: registration@hcconferences.com
Website: www.BenefitsSummit.com

 

WASHINGTON DC USA -- APRIL 20, 2007: The National Employee Benefits Summit, www.BenefitsSummit.com, June 19 - 21, 2007, at the Hilton Atlanta in Atlanta, GA today announced that it will feature sessions on health benefit management and health care consumerism.

BENEFITS SUMMIT - AT-A-GLANCE

Click here to review an at-a-glance overview of the Benefits Summit.


 
SESSIONS ON HEALTH BENEFIT MANAGEMENT
The Benefits Summit will feature the following sessions on health benefit management:
  • Trends in Health Benefits and the Future of Employment-based Health Benefits by Paul Fronstin, PhD, Director of the Health Research and Education Program, Employee Benefit Research Institute, Washington, DC
  • Employers Driving Better Health Care Through Responsible Benefit Design by Andrew Webber, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Business Coalition on Health, Washington, DC
  • Understanding and Managing Health Care Risks by Francois de Brantes, MS, MBA, Chief Operating Officer, eHealth Initiative, National Coordinator, Bridges To Excellence, Washington, DC
  • Outcomes Evaluation and the Impact of Disease Management and Wellness with Employer Groups by Tracey A. Moorhead, President and Chief Executive Officer, Disease Management Association of America, Washington, DC and Al Lewis, President, Disease Management Purchasing Consortium, Wellesley, MA
  • The Benefits Reconstruction Era: Recalibrating Health and Welfare by Ronald Leopold, MD, MBA, MPH, National Medical Director and Vice President, MetLife, Alpharetta, GA
  • Medicare Advantage: A Retiree Health Solution by Jean LeMasurier, Director, Employer Group Practice, Gorman Health Group, LLC, Washington, DC
  • Managing your Benefit Plan with Accreditation or Certification by J. Rosie Burke, Director of External Relations, The Joint Commission, Oakbrook Terrace, IL
  • Care Management: The Impact and Future Trends by Michael B. Garrett, MS, CCM, Vice President, Business Development, Qualis Health, Seattle, WA and Kara Trott, Chief Executive Officer, Quantum Health, Columbus, OH
  • On Site Clinics and Convenient Care Clinics: their Emerging Role in Benefit Design by Mike LaPenna, Principal, The LaPenna Group, Inc., Grand Rapids, MI and Charles "Chuck" Peck, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Take Care Health Systems, Conshohocken, PA
  • Value Based Purchasing: Tools for Health Plan Performance Measurement by Dennis White, Executive Vice President, National Business Coalition on Health, Washington, DC
  • Seeing the Big Picture - The Benefits of Collaborative Health Management in Eyecare and Beyond by Al Schubert, Vice President, Strategic Alliances & Managed Care, VSP, Sacramento, CA
  • What Electronic Health Records (EHR) Mean to Employers by Amy Leopard, Esq., Partner, Walter & Haverfield, Cleveland, OH and Jim Bureau, VP, Sales & Marketing, Shared Health, Chattanooga, TN
  • Vision Benefit Administrative and Financial Issues by John Davis, Vice President, Opticare, Rocky Mount, NC
  • Ten Characteristics of the Most Successful Worksite Wellness Programs by Don R. Powell, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer, American Institute for Preventive Medicine, Farmington Hills, MI
  • With the Changing Face of Healthcare and Workforce Demographics What is the Role of Voluntary Benefits, including Supplemental Medical, Long Term Care, Critical Care, Dental, Vision and Hearing? By Richard A. Storms, CEBS, Senior Associate, Mercer Health & Benefits and Chair, International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists, Minneapolis, MN

 
SESSIONS ON HEALTH CARE CONSUMERISM
The Benefits Summit will feature the following sessions on health care consumerism:
  • Health Plans and Consumer Driven Care by Meredith Baratz, Vice President, Definity Health, New York, NY; Linda Schulte, Senior Vice President, Customer Segments, CIGNA, Cumming, GA and Clive Riddle, President, MCOL, Modesto, CA
  • Consumerism Issues for Employers Overview by David Randall, Executive Director, The Consumer Driven Health Care Institute, Washington, DC
  • Top Ten HSA Funding Issues by Christine L. Keller, Esq., Principal, Groom Law Group, Washington, DC
  • Focused HSA Contribution Strategies to Maximize Voluntary Participation by Jay V. Garriss, CEBS, National Client Relations Leader, ACS HSA Solutions, Atlanta, GA
  • HSA, HRA and Consumerism use in Collective Bargaining by Pete Kaehler, Chief Executive Officer, Vende' Inc., Saint Paul, MN
  • A Wellness Story: Issues to Consider in Company Wellness Initiatives by Christy Tinnes, Principal, Groom Law Group, Washington, DC
  • A Step-by-Step Approach to Implementing Health Savings Accounts in Small to Mid-sized Companies by J. Michael Vittoria, Director of Human Resources, Bacou-Dalloz USA, Inc., Smithfield, RI
  • Accelerating Consumerism: Marketplace Innovations and Strategies that Work by Kathy Bartow, Director, Benefit Programs, Fujitsu America, Inc., San Jose, CA and Alexander C. Domaszewicz, Principal and Senior Consultant, Mercer Health & Benefits, Newport Beach, CA
  • Emerging Specialty Benefits and EAPs and Ann Clark, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, ACI Specialty Benefits, San Diego, CA
  • The Impact of Health Plan Price and Quality Transparency on Employers and Consumers by Geoffrey B. Baker, MBA, Chief Executive Officer and President, Med-Vantage, Inc., San Francisco, CA
  • Legal Perspectives: Evaluation, Design and Administration of Consumer Driven Health Care by Cheryl Risley Hughes, Esq., Principal, Sanders, Schnabel &, Brandenburg, PC, Washington, DC and Susan Nash, Esq., Partner, McDermott Will & Emery, Chicago, IL
  • Discount Medical Cards - One part of the Solution by Terry Tullo, President, New Benefits, Ltd., Dallas, TX

 
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Nancy J. Altman, Esq.
Board Chair, Pension Rights Center, Author, The Battle for Social Security, Washington, DC
Meredith Baratz
Vice President, Definity Health, New York, NY
Karen Kay Barnes, Esq.
Managing Counsel, McDonald's Corporation, Oak Brook, IL
Kathy Bartow
Director, Benefit Programs, Fujitsu America, Inc., San Jose, CA
Francois de Brantes
Officer and Director, Bridges to Excellence, Fairfield, CT
Jim Dougherty
Executive Director, Healthcare Information, J.D. Power and Associates, Eden Prairie, MN
Douglas N. Field
President/ and Chief Executive Officer, FieldMedia, LLC, Publisher, Benefits and Compensation Solutions, and CDHC Solutions, Co chair, National Benefits Management Summit, Atlanta, GA
Paul Fronstin
Director of the Health Research and Education Program, Employee Benefit Research Institute, Washington, DC
Daniel A. Green
Deputy Associate Director, Center for Employee and Family Support, Strategic Human Resources Policy Division, Office of Personnel Management, Washington, DC

 
Missy Krasner, MA
Project & Marketing Manager, Google, Former Senior Advisor, National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Mountain View, CA
Al Lewis
President, Disease Management Purchasing Consortium, Wellesley, MA
Terry A. McInnis, MD, MPH
Medical Director, Health Management Innovations, GlaxoSmithKline, Cary, NC
Tracey A. Moorhead
President and Chief Executive Officer, Disease Management Association of America, Washington, DC
Al Otto
President, White Horse Advisors, LLC, Atlanta, GA
Clive Riddle
President, MCOL, Former Chief Executive Officer, National Med HMO, Co chair, National Benefits Management Summit, and Consumer Driven Healthcare Summit, Modesto, CA
Linda Schulte
Senior Vice President, Customer Segments, CIGNA, Hartford, CT
Richard A. Storms, CEBS
Senior Associate , Mercer Health & Benefits, Chair, International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists, Minneapolis, MN
Andrew Webber
President and Chief Executive Officer, National Business Coalition on Health, Washington, DC
David L. Wray
President, The Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America, Former president from 1993 to 1996 of the International Association for Financial Participation, Chicago, IL

 
SUMMIT OVERVIEW
The National Employee Benefits Summit provides the leading forum for Employers and others on the current employee benefits trends, issues and solutions.

The Summit provides nationally renowned keynote speakers, plus concurrent sessions organized into conference tracks including:
  1. Health Benefit Management;
  2. Health Care Consumerism;
  3. Retirement Plans and Personal Finance;
  4. Insourcing/Outsourcing;
  5. Tools and Technology; and
  6. Supplemental/Voluntary Benefits.
Presentations during the Summit will provide the most current market information, technical information and solutions regarding: Plan Design, Pay for Performance, Prescription Management, Disease Management, Dental/Vision benefits, Price Transparency, Consumer Driven Plans, Wellness Incentives, Convenient Care retail clinics, Financial Literacy, Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution, Retirement Demographic/Economic Trends and Challenges, the Pension Protection Act, Fiduciary Oversight, IRS Updates, the impact of the Democratic Congress, Self-Funding, Outsourcing, Benchmarking, ROI, SAS 70 Audits, Benefits Communications, Employee Self Service Portals, Decision Support, EAPs, Fringe Benefits, Executive Benefits, Voluntary Benefits, and much more.

The Summit also provides the ideal networking opportunity for professionals throughout all industry sectors to interact, develop future relationships and meet key contacts.

 
SUMMIT EXHIBIT & SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION:

For sponsorship and exhibit information, go to www.BenefitsSummit.com/promotional/index.html or contact Joni Lipson, Exhibit Manager, Phone: 215-599-6626, Fax: 215-545-8107, email joni.lipson@rmpinc.com.


 
REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

For registration information, go to www.BenefitsSummit.com/registration.html, call 800-684-4549 or email: registration@hcconferences.com.

National Employee Benefit Summit Office
3291 West Wilson Road
Pahrump, NV 89048

 
 

 
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FEATURED PUBLICATION
All attendees receive a complimentary, one-year subscription to Benefits & Compensation Solutions



 
CORPORATE SPONSORS:
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WHO SHOULD ATTEND
  • Employee Benefit Managers
  • Total Rewards Managers
  • Human Resources Executives
  • Corporate Medical Departments
  • Legal and Regulatory Executives
  • Agents and Brokers
  • Benefit Consultants
  • Third Party Administrators
  • Plan Trustees
  • Investment Managers
  • Actuaries
  • Accounting Managers
  • C-Suite Executives
  • Planning and Strategic Development Executives
  • Consultants
  • Regulators
  • System Vendors and Integrators
  • Financial Institution Executives

 

 


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