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2015 IBI Annual Forum
Maintaining a healthy, high-performing and productive
workforce in a rapidly changing environment
Agenda
March 16-18, 2015
The Fairmont San Francisco
950 Mason Street (at California)
San Francisco, CA
Monday, March 16, 2015
12:00-1:00
Grand Ballroom Lounge
IBI Tools Lab
Join IBI experts for a hands-on walkthrough of our suite of measurement and
modeling tools.
1:00-2:20
Grand Ballroom
Pre-conference
The Future of Health and Productivity in the U.S.
Thomas Parry, PhD, President, Integrated Benefits Institute
Chris McSwain, Chief Strategy Officer, Aason, LLC.
Gary Earl, Health & Well-Being Ambassador, Anthem Life/Wellpoint
Brad Johnson, EVP of Operational Strategy and Shared Services, Sedgwick
Kathy McAlpine, Senior Director, Benefits, Kraft Foods
Tammy Green, Director, Well-being and Absence Management, Providence
Health & Services
There has never been as much diversity, volatility or uncertainty in the direction
employers will take in managing workforce health and productivity as there is today.
Last summer, at its strategic planning retreat, IBI’s Board of Directors explored these
issues. This preconference workshop will focus on three aspects of that conversation:
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(1) forces influencing the way in which employers are responding to managing
workforce health and productivity, (2) implications for how employers planning on
maintaining a more “traditional” role in healthcare will proceed and (3) implications
for how employers planning on taking a more “consumer-centric” approach will
move forward. The panel will be moderated by former IBI Board Chairman Chris
McSwain; panel members will include Kathy McAlpine from Kraft; Gary Earl from
Anthem-Wellpoint; Tammy Green from Providence Health Systems and Brad
Johnson from Sedgwick CMS. The audience is invited to participate fully in the
conversation.
2:40-3:00
Grand Ballroom
2015 Forum Begins
Welcome and opening remarks by IBI President Dr. Thomas Parry.
3:00–4:00
Grand Ballroom
Plenary session
Improving Workforce Performance in a Changing Work Climate
Thomas Parry, PhD, President, Integrated Benefits Institute
Kim Jinnett, PhD, Executive Vice President, Integrated Benefits Institute
Jamie Stalker, MD, Division Director, Health and Employee Wellness Division,
Argonne National Laboratory
Kathy Gerwig, Vice President, Employee Safety, Health and Wellness, Kaiser
Permanente
Chris Chan, Innovation Imagineer, Mercer LABS
Shauna Bryngelson, Senior Consultant, Absence and Disability Management,
Towers Watson
Research results are presented from IBI’s Study The impact of health on job
performance and productivity. To compete in an ever-increasingly globalized
marketplace, U.S. employers need a healthy, highly-performing workforce. This
research clarifies the relationship between employee health, work climate, job
performance and organizational impacts from a series of employee and manager
surveys. The presentation and subsequent panel discussion will address population
health themes and key components of the work environment that are highly related
to employee health, well-being, performance and organizational impacts. Panelists
will provide their perspectives on promising practices aimed at workforce health and
performance improvement.
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4:00–4:30
Refreshment Break sponsored by National Pharmaceutical Council
4:30–5:30
Grand Ballroom
Plenary session
Synergy at Work: Private Exchanges and Workforce Performance
Bruce Sherman, MD, Medical Director, Employer Health Coalition
Doug Stover, Senior Managing Consultant, Gallup
Chris McSwain, Chief Strategy Officer, Aasonn
Mark Fendrick, MD, Director, VBID Center, University of Michigan
Scott Rabin, Manager, RightOpt, RightOpt/Buck Consultants
As employers consider the array of strategies and tactics used to control healthcare
costs, private exchanges are emerging as a focal point. The role of private exchange
offerings in workforce health and productivity management has not been explicitly
determined, and is a subject of some debate. This session will share expert
perspectives regarding the role that private exchanges may play in supporting
workforce health management efforts. Each of the panelists has a unique
perspective, and together will provide an insightful look at the role of private
exchanges. By directly addressing the critical employer decision-making process, this
presentation will summarize available research and describe how workforce health,
well-being, and performance can be further enhanced in the setting of private
exchanges.
5:30–7:30
Crown Room
Forum reception
Enjoy a sweeping view of the city of San Francisco as we come together to talk and
network over cocktails and appetizers.
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
7:15am
Grand Ballroom
Breakfast sponsored by Liberty Mutual
8:15-9:15
Grand Ballroom
Plenary session
The Impact of Technology and Evolving Healthcare Delivery Models
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Kimberly George, Senior Vice President, Senior Healthcare Advisor, Sedgwick
Stephen Shaya, MD, Medical Director, J&B Medical Supply
Jennifer Christian-Herman, PhD, Executive Director, Healthworks Product
Innovation & Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente
Charles Yarborough, MD, President/Owner, CYHealthAssociates, LLC
Sri Mummaneni, MD, Medical Director, Pratt & Whitney / Rocketdyne
In the search for better access to quality healthcare in a changing landscape, there
has been a strong focus on technological advancement. Technologies are being
developed to maintain employee well-being as well as facilitate treatment and
recovery when injuries and illnesses do occur. These novel technological
advancements include telemedicine, real time visual connectivity, google glass,
wearable monitoring devices, internet connected bio sensors, three dimensional
printers, and robotic devices. Panelists will speak to how technology can expand
healthcare coverage and service to more Americans in addition to how these
alternative delivery models offer opportunities for providers to connect with their
patients in a different way. This session brings together experts to discuss trends in
innovation and the measurements used to evaluate the impact of new technologies
on cost, quality, and workplace productivity.
9:15-9:45
Refreshment Break sponsored by The Hartford
9:45-10:45
Grand Ballroom
Plenary session
Using Consumer Activation to Better Understand Consumer Behavior and
Outcomes
Craig Kurtzweil, Senior Vice President, Analytic Innovations, UnitedHealth
Group
Andrea Romisher, Vice President Benefits, Kindred Healthcare
Recogni zing the impact consumer behavior has on health care and related costs,
Unum and UnitedHealth Group took aim at consumer health activation with their
Consumer Activation Index (CAI), a tool used for measuring decision making and
short-term disability exposure. In a study of 17 customers with 270k members, the
CAI was used to determine if individuals make an optimal clinical, financial or
service choice when faced with a health care decision. The CAI navigates individuals
through 51 decision points to complete its assessment. By better understanding
consumer behavior, members can then seek to modify behavior to achieve better
health. The discussion will highlight how CAI works and its results in relation to short
term disability and productivity.
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Grand Ballroom Lounge
IBI Tools Lab
Join IBI experts for a hands-on walkthrough of our suite of measurement and
modeling tools.
10:45-11:15
Break
11:15-12:15
Pavilion Room (Lobby Level)
Workshop A
New Insights: Employer Engagement and Absence Management
Strategies
Karen English, Partner, Spring Consulting Group
Gene Lanzoni, Assistant Vice President, Market Intelligence, Guardian
Jane Ryan, Return to Work Section Head, Mayo Foundation,
With the implementation of Affordable Care Act reforms and the release of ADAAA
final regulations adopted by the EEOC in the past two years, the absence
management field has changed greatly. This session will present findings from the
2015 Guardian Absence Management Activity Index℠ and Study, a Spring
Consulting Group commissioned survey, as well as an accompanying metric
developed in 2012 to monitor changes in employer engagement and absence
management-related activities. By providing insight into the current absence
management landscape, this presentation will explain the series of steps employers
of all sizes can take to get started on their absence management journey and build
an effective, long-standing program over time.
Crystal Room (Lobby Level)
Workshop B
A Practical Approach to Integrating Health and Disability Programs
Randy Ford, Vice President, Product and Service Solutions, Unum, Nation
Client Group
Rich Fuerstenberg, Senior Partner, Mercer
Denise Callari, MD, Vice President, HealthCare Strategies, UnitedHealthcare
Michelle Martin, Vice President, HR Specialty Benefits, CBS
This session will present a “block and tackle” approach to designing an effective
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integration strategy for health and disability programs. Representatives from Unum,
Mercer, UnitedHealthcare and CBS will explore the relationship between disability
and healthcare cost, the impact of compliance-based medicine, the identification of
health risk factors, and the tools necessary to maximize program effectiveness.
Speakers will share results on increased engagement, decreased STD costs and
durations, and value received.
Fountain Room (Lobby Level)
Workshop C
Breaking Through: Communicating for Engagement and Behavior Change
Janice Burnham, CEO, ROC Group
Gary Grabarczyk, VP, Corporate Associate Benefits, Robert Bosch
In this session, a leading employer will discuss how they are using targeted
communication techniques and campaigns to drive engagement with corporate
leadership as well as employees and their families. Participants will share how
they’ve helped leadership embrace the impact of workforce health on productivity as
well as provide insights about why employee and family engagement in health and
benefits programs is integral for success. This session will focus on utilizing
communications to influence the subcultures of a corporate enterprise, leveraging
transparency in health initiatives, motivating an inactive deskbound workforce, and
positioning workforce health to financial leadership.
French Room (Lobby Level)
Workshop D
Case Studies on Effective Obesity Management Solutions
Jack Nightingale, Vice President, Healthcare Practice, Benfield – Arthur J.
Gallagher & Co.
Firky Isaac, MD, Vice President of Global Health Services, Johnson & Johnson
Obesity is a top health and productivity concern as well as a complex and
challenging condition that most employers have found difficult to address effectively.
Employers that want to move their employee populations to healthier weights are
looking for proven weight management strategies that go beyond the standard
approaches to employee engagement and support. This session will present case
studies of two leading employers—Johnson & Johnson and Quad/Graphics—that
have been pioneers in implementing new integrated, value-based solutions,
measuring their results, and deploying them across their organizations.
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Garden Room (Lobby Level)
Workshop E
Fit for Work in a Physically Demanding Environment: A Comprehensive
Approach to Wellness at Goldcorp’s Wharf Mine
Colleen Broersma, President, 3:1 Corporate HPM Solutions
Larry Bakke, Administrative Manager, Wharf Mine
In the fall of 2011, Wharf Mine partnered with 3:1 Corporate HPM Solutions to
launch a new wellness program for its employees. The project aimed for a
comprehensive approach to wellness by integrating traditional occupational safety,
prevention, and health protection efforts with health promotion. Key components of
the program included individual health assessments, health and safety education,
nutrition, core strengthening, stress and sleep management, wearable devices for
tracking progress, and follow-up sessions. Speakers will discuss how these
components lead to measurable successes in heightened employee efficiency,
reductions in serious health conditions, improved health risk status, and reduced
worker’s compensation costs related to slips, trips, falls and overexertion.
12:15-1:15
Tonga Room (Terrace Level)
Lunch and networking break sponsored by Cigna
Join attendees in the famous Tonga Room, a tiki lounge that has been popular in San
Francisco since 1945.
1:15-2:15
Pavilion Room (Lobby Level)
Workshop A
Telemedicine: Innovative Approaches to Health Care
Rich Feifer, MD, Chief Medical Officer, National Accounts, Aetna
Joe O’Neill, VP, Compensation & Benefits, Penske Truck Leasing
Ryan June, Director of Healthcare Analytics, Teladoc
Penske, a global transportation services provider, partnered with Aetna and Teladoc
to explore a telemedicine care option. Telemedicine offers hard-to-reach patients an
alternate channel of care from any location without the delay of scheduling or taking
time off from work. Speakers will discuss the value based plan design of Penske’s
telemedicine program as well as its results due to productivity savings and employee
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satisfaction. This presentation will address innovative remote approaches to health
care as well as the key elements of an effective deployment strategy that achieves
maximal adoption and impact.
Crystal Room (Lobby Level)
Workshop B
FMLA & ADA: Avoiding Pitfalls and Reducing Absences
Matt Morris, VP, AbsenceResources, ComPsych
Bert Cleary, Senior HR Manager, Compensation & Benefits, Welchs
Increasing overlap between FMLA and ADA has presented employers with the
question of how to address new regulations while maintaining compliance and
managing absence. ComPsych will present a case study illustrating how employers
can reduce absences by as much as 30 percent by focusing on important changes in
FMLA law, interpreting what the EEOC’s “rigorous enforcement” of ADA laws
means to employers, proactively identifying FMLA absences and other applicable
leaves that may require ADA analysis, integrating FMLA and ADA processes to
improve efficiency and reduce risk, and instituting new corporate policies and
procedures that will help reduce overall absence.
Fountain Room (Lobby Level)
Workshop C
Work-Focused Interventions for Value-Based Care around Depression
Debra Lerner, PhD, Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry, Tufts University
SOM; Director, Program on Health, Work and Productivity, Tufts Medical
Center
Francisca Azócar, PhD, Vice President, Research and Evaluation Behavioral
Health Sciences, OptumHealth
Depression is a major issue affecting millions of Americans, inhibiting their ability to
lead productive lives at home and at work. OptumHealth partnered with Tufts
Medical Center and 19 national employers to create a work-focused intervention
aimed at improving the productivity of middle- aged and older adults with
depression and work limitations. The program utilized telephone-based counseling
with care coordination, cognitive behavioral therapy strategy development, and
work coaching/modification. Speakers will share results including a 44% work
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productivity improvement and discuss increasing efforts to provide more valuebased care with a work-focused intervention strategy.
French Room (Lobby Level)
Workshop D
Addressing Health Holistically: An Integrated Benefits Strategy Approach
Gary Fritsch, Product Manager, Cigna
Alyssa Coleman, Benefits Consultant, Nextera Energy
Deb Snider, Director of Health &Welfare Benefits, BAE Systems
Michelanne Bradwell, Manager, Benefits, Konica Minolta
In this session, Cigna, along with prominent national employers, will discuss how
integrated benefit strategies can be used to address specific needs and measure
success. This session will discuss various challenges companies face such as
designing an effective absence management program and focusing on practices that
encompass a larger picture of health. Using healthcare, HRA, FML, and disability
data, speakers will focus on the process of creating a return-on-investment benefits
strategy that works alongside integration through proactive identification and timely
intervention.
Garden Room (Lobby Level)
Workshop E
Returning Investing in Absence Management – An Employer Life Cycle
Approach to Absence Management
Renee Mattaliano, Principal, Laurus Strategies
David Taylor, Director of Integrated Disability Management, Reyes Holdings
This session will review how Reyes Holdings the eleventh largest privately held
company in the United States had worked to develop and implement an integrated
approach to Absence management. The discussion will unveil their unique blend of
internal resources, vendors and partners. Specifically, Reyes will discuss the
initiating integration and explain the integral steps taken to ensure a sustainable
approach to understanding and managing workforce productivity. Participants will
provide a review of an in-depth analysis of Reyes targeted problem areas. In
addition, Reyes will discuss the need for restructuring department reporting, and the
calibration of internal talent needed to make Integrated Absence management a
reality. This session will also highlight how job roles, technology, data mining and
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report development have proven essential to capturing the attention of local
management in a widely disperse workforce.
2:15-2:45
Refreshment Break sponsored by The Hartford
2:45-3:45
Pavilion Room (Lobby Level)
Workshop A
“Fixing Stress”: Informing Health, Productivity & Wellness
Robert Simon Siegel, CEO, Global Optimal Health Group
John White, MD, Chief Medical Advisor, Diagnos-Techs
Eric Hatzenbuehler, Health & Productivity Consultant
Tamela Thomas, Wellness Manager, Washington Athletic Club in Seattle
In this session, speakers will present the essential components of practical solutions
to the universal challenge of stress. In delivering a combination of new standards,
precise diagnostic measures, and prevention essentials, speakers will provide
attendees insight on the potential value of stress management as a means to
bettering a workforce’s health and productivity. This session will also focus on the
strategic implementation of innovative stress and wellness management into the
workplace. By defining “stress” as a physiologically foundation of wellness, this
session will help attendees use illness prevention, healthcare costs, productivity,
absenteeism, presenteeism to inform exciting new “health-producing” skills.
Crystal Room (Lobby Level)
Workshop B
Partnership and Prevention: Utilizing Different Health Networks to
Prevent Disease and Promote Performance
John Sinnot, MD Chairman, Internal Medicine, USFHealth
Antonio Iglesias, Regional Medical Director, Pfizer, Inc.
Approximately 50,000 adults die each year in the US from vaccine-preventable
diseases such as influenza and pneumonia. To confront this problem, Pfizer
collaborated with the University of South Florida (USFHealth) and Tampa General
Hospital to review the use of vaccines as a method of improving workforce health.
The first step in this collaboration was to model the direct and indirect benefit costs
associated with Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP). This session will reveal the
economic burden of CAP and the advantages of partnerships to deter CAP incidents.
Presenters will discuss the health system’s direct and indirect benefit costs
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associated with CAP and annual cost estimates for the organization’s health, sick
leave/absence, short-term disability (STD), and group life insurance benefit
programs. Speakers will then explore how the expansion of employee coverage for
vaccines in partnership with pharmacy networks worked to improve the overall
health and productivity of affected workforces.
Fountain Room (Lobby Level)
Workshop C
Health and Productivity Management Guided by a Workforce’s
Professional, Social, and Emotional Wellbeing
Jim Purvis, VP, Well-Being Improvement Design, Healthways
Elizabeth Glenn-Bottair, Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, Integrative
Health, St. Joseph Health
Healthways partnered with St. Joseph’s Health to better understand and improve
employee well-being. Speakers will discuss a program to address high claims costs
and instances of absenteeism and presenteeism. Healthways leveraged St. Joseph
Health’s Choose Well brand and developed custom campaigns for each ministry to
maximize employee engagement and participation in the Healthways Well-Being
Assessment. This survey measured more than just the physical health of employees,
it also identified the impact that work environment and social, emotional and
community well-being had on their overall well-being as well. Through robust data
analytics, Healthways identified key priorities for improvement and this session will
discuss the program’s approach, implementation, and productivity savings.
French Room (Lobby Level)
Workshop D
Ensuring Compliance and Improving Productivity in a new ADAAA
Landscape
David Lea, Regional Practice Leader, Reliance Standard Life Insurance
Lesley Gee, Senior Manager, Global Benefits, YAHOO! Inc.
Laurie Brednich, Director, Employee Benefits, GoDaddy, Inc.
With the advent of the ADAAA in 2008, the Americans with Disabilities Act
brought change to disability and leave management. This session will focus on
helping employers navigate the landscape of the new ADAAA regulations and EEOC
enforced employer compliance, whether through self-administered or outsourced
ADA programs. Speakers will discuss available data and the results of a fully
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outsourced ADA administration program 12 months post-implementation. They will
focus on how this program aimed to ensure compliance, improve productivity, and
reduce overall exposure.
Garden Room (Lobby Level)
Workshop E
Tying Educational Outcomes to Good Health
Jon Harris-Shapiro, President, Continuance Health Solutions
David Hines, Director, Employee Benefits, Metro Nashville Public Schools
Patt McCarver, Director, Vanderbilt Health at MNPS, Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt and Continuance Health Solutions partnered with Metro Nashville Public
Schools (MNPS) to create onsite patient-centered medical homes and engagement
plans for their teachers. Six years post-implementation, 40% of teachers consider
the worksite clinics their medical home. Speakers from MNPS, CHS, and Vanderbilt
will discuss the program’s integration of medical, pharmacy, dental, vision, and
worker’s compensation services, as well as their plans to expand the scope of care to
include health coaching and behavioral health. Presenting three years of results,
speakers will discuss how they’re using data on student academic achievement to
proactively manage the health of their teacher population.
3:45-4:00
Break
4:00-5:00
Grand Ballroom
Plenary session
Successful Strategies for Reducing the Total Impact of Behavioral Health
Claims in Call Centers
Deborah LaBonar, Leader, Absence Analytics, Aon Hewitt
Blessy John, Project Manager, Global Benefits Team, Discover Financial
Services
This presentation will share how a 14,000 life financial services company with a
primarily call center population achieved reductions in both incidence and duration
of mental disorder disability claims. By applying an integrated, strategic approach to
reducing mental health claims, the organization reduced the total number of annual
days lost by 34%. Presenters will discuss how interventions made by on-site EAP
counselors and behavioral health specialists helped employees find professional
mental health services and achieve a timely and healthy return to work.
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Grand Ballroom Lounge
IBI Tools Lab
Join IBI experts for a hands-on walkthrough of our suite of measurement and
modeling tools.
5:00-5:15
Grand Ballroom
Meeting of IBI members
IBI President Dr. Thomas Parry will call together a brief internal meeting of
members. Non-members have free time.
For the rest of the evening, attendees have free time to schedule meetings or explore
San Francisco. Attendees need to arrange for dinner this night.
5:15–6:45
Crown Room
Scholarship reception
NOTE: This event is open to employer attendees and staff from our scholarship
sponsors: Abbvie, Aetna, Anthem/Wellpoint.
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
7:15am
Grand Ballroom
Breakfast sponsored by HealthSCOPE Benefits
This morning, attendees will go right to workshops after breakfast. We will come
together as a group for final plenary sessions after these workshops.
8:15-9:15
Pavilion Room (Lobby Level)
Workshop A
Delivering Value Based Solutions through Quality Partnership and
Transparency
Joseph Cacchione, MD Chairman, Heart & Vascular Institute Strategy and
Operations, Cleveland Clinic
Al Rapp, VP, Benefits, UPS
Geoff Kilgore, SVP, Account Management, Change Healthcare
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Cleveland Clinic and employer panelists will discuss their goal of creating a new
definition of value that includes quality outcomes, episodic pricing, reduced disability
claims, faster return to work times, improved patient-reported outcomes (measured
up to one year post op), and built-in engagement programs to drive utilization to
high-performing networks. Speakers will share the results of this program and its
effect on presenteeism and productivity, as well as absence, sick leave, short-term
disability, and medical and pharmacy costs.
Crystal Room (Lobby Level)
Workshop B
Playing the Triple Role of an Employer, Provider, and Educator: A SelfInsured Benefit Plan
Ron Loeppke, MD, Vice Chairman, U.S. Preventive Medicine
Warner Hudson, MD, Medical Director, UCLA Health System and Campus
In this session, speakers will review UCLA’s major health initiative as an employer,
provider, educator, and participant in a self-insured benefit plan. UCLA Health was
presented with a unique opportunity to transform healthcare through the delivery of
the Triple Aim—a means of accepting leadership as an employer and healthcare
provider to enhance the health and performance of its workforce. In launching
several innovative initiatives, UCLA Health demonstrated material results: reducing
healthcare service utilization through the Primary Care Innovation Model (PCIM),
increasing employee engagement through a Value-based Care, Person Journey
Model for employees in the UCLA health plan (in partnership with U.S. Preventive
Medicine), and decreasing workers’ comp costs through its WorkStrong program.
Speakers will discuss the health system redesign as well as integration, capacity
growth, pre-primary care, telemedicine, and home services.
Fountain Room (Lobby Level)
Workshop C
Investing in Human Capital for Wellbeing and Productivity
Jeremy Watson, Wellness Product Owner, Humana
Matthew Bowdy, Outcome Strategist, Humana
Waleed Bahouth, Director, Associate Health and Well-being, Humana
Carlos Mora, PhD, Research Scientist, Center for Positive Organizational
Scholarship, University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
Humana, in cooperation with the University of Michigan and the Integrated Benefits
Institute (IBI), has developed a framework that explores the relationships between
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well-being, productivity loss and medical costs. This session will share Humana’s
work in understanding how organizations can develop a robust long-term human
capital strategy by combining multiple elements of traditional health benefits,
worker costs, employee engagement, and behavioral economics. Speakers will
discuss how Humana aimed to help employers better understand their populations
through segmentation and will also address how employers targeted individual
employees and group needs simultaneously.
French Room (Lobby Level)
Workshop D
The Importance of Guidelines and Outcomes: Tracking Low Back
Problems in a Major Self-Insured Workforce
Harris Allen, PhD, Founder & Principal, Harris Allen Group
Wayne Burton, MD, Chief Medical Officer, American Express
William Bunn, MD, Vice President, Navistar
Michael Erdil, MD, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut School of
Medicine
Up to 84% of the general population has been found to report low back pain (LBP)
symptoms at some point during their lifetime. This session will focus on a recent
study undertaken for the cultivation of evidence on issues key to a successful
program of illness/injury prevention, reduction of workers’ compensation, and
disability and healthcare costs. This study longitudinally tracked episodes of three
types of ICD-9 diagnosis and found that care congruent with 10 of 11 guidelines was
linked to lower total costs. Speakers will discuss the study’s findings on how these
approaches marked by higher resource utilization and lower guideline congruence
are ultimately linked to greater LBP total costs as well as a fundamental impact on
employer investment in health and productivity.
Garden Room (Lobby Level)
Workshop E
Redesigning to Better Manage Absence and Disability
Tyler Amell, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, StaffRelay
Dave Keen, Executive Director, FH Workplace Health & Provincial WH Call
Centre, Fraser Health
Fraser Health, a Canadian organization with 24,000 employees, worked with Staff
Relay to create a program to better approach and manage absence and disability.
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Through an extensive redesign process, a comprehensive electronic employee health
record, an Enhanced Disability Management Program (EDMP), and an automated
attendance reporting solution, Fraser Health has produced a return on investment of
$28 million in decreased LTD and other disability costs. This session will detail
positive impacts on absence, sick leave, STD and WC, as well as higher participation
rates.
9:15–9:45
Refreshment Break sponsored by Prudential
9:45-10:45
Grand Ballroom
Partnership: Understanding is Key to Optimizing Productivity
Mike Dunst, AVP, National Practice Leader Absence Management, The
Hartford
Oswald Mondejar, SVP, Mission and Advocacy, Partners Health System
Michael Wehmeyer, PhD, Professor of Special Education; Senior Scientist and
Co-Director, Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities; Beach
Center on Disability at University of Kansas
Karrie Shogren, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Special
Education; Associate Director, Kansas University Center on Developmental
Disabilities; Beach Center on Disability at University of Kansas
Sandi Boller, VP, Human Resources, US Bank
Ann Kuhnen, MD, Medical Director, Group Benefits and Workers’
Compensation, The Hartford
Workforces are changing dramatically with the influx of Millennials and young Gen
Yers. This session discusses how they will impact the future workforce based on
recent independent research by The University of Kansas. The session will focus on
motivational factors affecting the younger generation’s performance, development,
and retention. Speakers will discuss their successful program results related to
recruiting, developing, and retaining abled and disabled employees. Speakers will
share their findings on self-determination as a predictor of success in the workplace
as well as behavioral findings that measure employment success for employees with
disabilities.
10:45-11:00
Grand Ballroom
Closing and raffle
We will host the raffle drawing during the closing remarks.