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Monday February 28, 2005
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7:00 am
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8:00 am
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8:15 am
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- Learning from early adopters: Moving from plan design strategies to lifestyle and personal health needs
- Identifying true cost transparency for consumers
- Using incentives to change behavior
- Looking into the future of consumer driven healthcare
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9:00 am
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- Shifting risk and responsibility to consumers
- Redefining and restructuring communication campaigns
- Focus and investment on education, not just communication, early and often
- The role of the health plans
- Branding the entire benefit program
- Measures for success
- What an educated and informed consumer means to providers
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9:30 am
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10:00 am
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Benefits can differentiate – and are needed to win. Learn to align your strategies with a diverse and changing workforce
- Benefits that help to engage and retain your key talent
- Design that reflects life stages and provides for flexibility
- Managing costs without creating barriers to care
- That elusive ROI...
- Partnering with vendors to deliver quality services consistent with your strategy/culture
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11:00 am
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Ronald E. Bachman
Principal in the Human Resource Consulting Division
PricewaterhouseCoopers, L.L.P.
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| Ronald Bachman is the Atlanta Healthcare Leader for the Southeast Region of the Human Resource Services Practice. He is an actuary with extensive experience in managed care strategy and financial modeling. While currently focusing on ways to assist employers in moving to the next generation of benefit designs, he works with all players around the "health care table" to establish new partnerships for effective market-driven reforms. Mr. Bachman is considered a national thoughtleader on a wide range of healthcare issues. He worked closely with the Bush White House and the IRS on the language and principles of the 2002 HRA guidelines and with Treasury and Congress on HSA legislation and regulations. He has consulted with various government agencies on national health issues and legislative and regulatory proposals. He has served as a designated expert on actuarial issues to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Congressional Budget Office, the Department of Labor, the National Institute of Mental Health, and several members of Congress.
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Cecily Hall
Director, US Benefits
Microsoft Corporation
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| Cecily Hall is the Director of US Benefits for the Microsoft Corporation, responsible for more than 55 health and welfare benefit plans and programs, involving 40+ vendors and serving approximately 100,000 employees and family members. Since joining Microsoft in 1992, Cecily has led her organization in the development and deployment of innovative, cost effective benefit plans and programs including disability management strategies, leave of absence programs, e-health initiatives, and methods of more effectively managing specific health conditions such as morbid obesity and autism. Some of this work has gained national recognition including acknowledgment by the Clinton Administration for employer innovation. Cecily is on the Leadership Council for the American Cancer Society, is a Senior Advisor for the Center for Practical Health Reform and she has been honored by the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis, Families for Effective Autism Treatment, and the University of Washington Experimental Education Unit. Prior to joining Microsoft, Cecily held positions in sales, business management and human resources at Nordstrom.
Cecily is a native of Montana and enjoys history, music and antiques but above all, spending time with her husband and three children.
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Phil Micali
CEO and founder
bWell International, Inc.
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| Philip Micali is the founder and CEO of bWell international, inc. Phil has over 20 years experience designing, developing and operating innovative health and wellness companies, including HMOs, specialty managed care programs, and consumer driven health plans in the US and Europe. In Europe, he provided services to public and private sectors. Most recently, Phil led the consumer sales and government program initiatives at the nation's leading and pioneering consumer driven health plan, Lumenos. Phil was also an equity partner in a start up company for an oncology disease management and eldercare services portal in the US and Europe. He continues his post as visiting professor at the Bocconi University (Milan, Italy) Masters in International Health, Economics and Policy and serves on the editorial advisory board of the Adis Journal “Disease Management and Health Outcomes”. Currently, he is focused on offering customized multi-media education, decision support, coaching and branding for benefit plan choices to consumers. Through these efforts, his vision is to enable consumers and all stakeholders to see health and wellness as an accumulated asset they self-promote, not as an entitlement.
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