The World Congress 2nd Annual Executive Forum on Alternative Models for Health Benefit Financing

As employers struggle with increasing health care costs, rising premiums and instability in the market, creative approaches to financing benefits are delivering new opportunities to drive real savings.  In 2012, a tremendous need exists for engagement on the part of the employer to take proactive action that results in health benefit cost controls. The World Congress Executive Forum on Alternative Models for Health Benefit Financing, convenes forward-looking employers and brokers with key innovators in the self-funding industry to explore financial strategies that achieve sustainability for the employer in a post-PPACA climate.

Preliminary Topics Include:

• Self-Funding Evaluation
• Pros and cons of a self-funding strategy
• Understanding tax, cash flow and financial benefits
• Recognizing how to choose your vendors
• Defining stop loss levels
• Maximizing Your Self-Funding Arrangement
• Innovation plan document design and language
• Ensuring protection from gaps in coverage
• Subrogation
• Claims and recovery overpayment and analysis
• Capitalizing on the Benefits of Self-Funding
•  Best practices for maximizing the new access to data
•  Implementing targeted and measurable wellness programs
• Assess access to PPO networks and defining narrow networks to maximize care quality
• Implementing employee benefit communications and literacy
• Exploring a Partial Self-Funding Arrangement
• Developing a Group Benefit Captive for Self-Funding
• Assessing Defined Contribution Approaches and Emerging Private Exchanges