NAVIGATING HEALTHCARE REFORM: PAY OR PLAY?
Duration: 45 minutes
Join Chris Justice, Senior Director of Analytic Consulting and Research Services, as he presents an updated review of the Pay or Play Model — assumptions, methods, data, and results. He will discuss:
- The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
- Pay or Play: How to Decide?
- The Model
- Observations: Large Employers
- Employer Options
HEALTH AND PRODUCTIVITY MANAGEMENT: AN OVERVIEW OF CURRENT AND FUTURE STATES
Join Shane Sumner, consulting director, and Dr. Michael Taylor, vice president and national business medical leader, from Thomson Reuters, for a 60-minute webinar addressing key challenges facing employers today. The speakers will cover three separate but overlapping areas of employee health and productivity management: physical wellness/disease management, integrated absence management, and psychological and psychosocial health.
Available Thursday November 10th at 2:00pm or Wednesday November 16th at 2:00pm.
FIVE SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING
HEALTHCARE WASTE
Join us as we examine proven methods for eliminating waste, drawing from our clients' experience. This webinar series will highlight the leading efforts to reduce waste in the healthcare system and identify five proven strategies that have been deployed in the real world to cut costs and improve patient care.
White Paper: A Path to Eliminating 3.6 Trillion in Wasteful Healthcare Spending
IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF HEALTHCARE WORKERS
Join expert Eric Parmenter, a national leader in the hospital health system industry and a recognized expert on the impact of Health care Reform on health care providers, for a presentation of recent data highlighting the health crisis facing health care workers. Eric will team with Kreg Sherbine, an expert in health and wellness program evaluation. Hospitals and health systems are so focused on patient care, often they find it difficult to make employee wellness a top priority. However, recent research clearly shows health system employees are more in need of intervention than the average worker in the United States.
Learn actionable information that will help you utilize employee data to guide strategic solutions, evaluate wellness incentive programs, and measure the return on these investments.
Eric Parmenter, Vice President of Consulting, Senior Principal at HighRoads and Kreg Sherbine, Consulting Manager at Thomson Reuters, will present:
- Research on the current state of health care workers
- Strategies to develop successful wellness and health management programs unique to hospital environments
- Client case studies including situation, action and result to improve the health, well-being and productivity of health care workers
PATIENT-CENTERED MEDICAL HOME & WORKFORCE HEALTH IMPROVEMENT
Join Thomson Reuters for this webinar Wednesday, August 23th or Tuesday August 30th and learn how employers increasingly recognize the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) as a means to improve workforce health and ultimately control healthcare costs.
Jeff Hanson, Co-Chair, PCPCC Center for eHealth Information Adoption and Exchange and Vice President, Healthcare Thomson Reuters will present from a recent paper he co-authored: Patient-Centered Medical Home Performance Metrics for Employers. He will review a set of health and productivity metrics that allow employers to develop strategies and measure the outcomes of these programs.
We will share examples of work other organizations have undertaken including their strategies, actions, and results, and review key program components such as:
- Identifying and prioritizing a location where medical home might be appropriate
- Reviewing successful strategies for engaging the provider community
- Learning how to establish metrics and use data as the basis for provider incentive compensation
CUT THE WASTE IN YOUR HEALTHCARE SPENDING
Join Dr Raymond Fabius, MD Chief Medical Officer and Donna Shenoha, VP, Health Promotion Manager, Wells Fargo Bank on Tuesday, July 19th for a web seminar to learn about actions you can take to address your wasteful health care spending.
HOW MUCH MONEY ARE YOU LEAVING ON THE TABLE?
Join Dana Maul, Vice President of Thomson Reuters for this webinar Wednesday, July 13th or Tuesday, July 26th and learn how you can use audit, compliance monitoring and contracting to immediately remove wasteful spending from your organization. We share examples of work and we have completed with other organizations including their strategies, actions and results.
Thomson Reuters uses proven methodologies and industry expertise to help our healthcare clients combat errors and comply with stricter due diligence requirements from healthcare reform. Learn what actionable information will help you evaluate past plan performance and provide an enhanced prescription drug audit as well as medical, dental, provider and dependent eligibility audits, including:
- Identify and prevent payment problems
- Recover misspent funds
- Improve the quality of healthcare
WEBINAR FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYERS: CONSUMER ACTIVISM TO REDUCE COSTS AND CHANGE EMPLOYEE BEHAVIOR
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)* state benefit plans are facing serious financial pressures. In the past 5 years a few major developments have attracted the attention of legislatures, public policymakers and governors, including:
- Rapidly rising commercial premiums are impacting state budgets;
- State fiscal pressures are leading to more proposals to increase employee share of costs;
- Co-payments and deductibles are on the rise in many places, separate from the established premiums.
Learn more about how to engage individuals in actively managing their care to stay healthy and save money, help your organization navigate this new era of healthcare consumerism – and maximize your return-on-investment.
*State Employee Health Benefits, National Conference of State Legislatures, (http://www.ncsl.org/Default.aspx?TabId=14345)