Self-Insurance Strategies Track

Wednesday, May 25

It is critical for employers to adopt novel approaches to reduce rising healthcare costs and deliver quality care. While self-funding empowers employers to make meaningful healthcare decisions, eliminate unmercenary spend, employers must learn to modify their benefit design strategies to strengthen transparency, combat rising drug spend, and effectively take care of their employees’ health and well-being. Learn the latest strategies to move to value and contain costs while leveraging partnerships with benefits consultants, TPAs, and brokers.

Thinc Main Agenda Wednesday AM May 25, 2022

7:00 am - 1:40 pm

Registration

7:00 am - 8:10 am

Coffee

8:15 am - 8:20 am

Opening Remarks

8:20 am - 8:50 am

Addressing and Eliminating Racial Disparities in Healthcare

Understanding racial and ethnic disparities
Efforts to improve health and well-being among minorities
Initiatives to close racial gaps in care and improve outcomes

Christopher King, PhD Chair, Department of Health Systems Administration
Georgetown University

8:50 am - 9:40 am

Digital Innovation to Reimagine the Consumer Experience and Deliver Care at the Right Place and Time

Strategies to adopt a customer-centric approach to engaging patients/members
Leveraging digital tools to enable real-time engagement and enhance the overall experience
Navigating the digital boom: Choosing the right virtual technology and applications to improve member/patient experience and outcomes
Creating a “digital home” to serve diverse populations including Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries
Securing leadership buy-in to invest in innovation and transformation
Accelerating and sustaining digital health innovation to enhance individual and community health and well-being

Moderator: Dan Sweeney

Onyeka Nchege Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer
Novant Health

Diana “Dee” Cruz Chief Operating Officer
BMC HealthNet Plan

Amy West Head of U.S. Digital Transformation & Innovation
Novo Nordisk

Edward Lee, MD Executive Vice President, Information Technology and Chief Information Officer,
The Permanente Federation
Associate Executive Director,
The Permanente Medical Group

Dan Sweeney Vice President, Healthcare
Relay Network

9:45 am - 10:00 am

Networking Break in the Exhibit Hall

Self-Insurance Strategies Track Wednesday May 25, 2022

10:05 am - 10:50 am

Creating the Communication Bridge: Marketing Strategies That Drive Engagement, Partnership and Revenue Growth for Payers, Brokers, And Employers

Explore ways to drive engagement and make your value proposition impossible to misunderstand
Examine the factors that go into successful marketing techniques to close the communication gap between Payers, Brokers, and Employers
Learn the messaging and medium preferences of the demographics within these target audiences
Leverage the experience of two guys who live and breathe communications techniques in the employee benefits space everyday