BULLETIN for current and past attendees of Healthcare Web Summit events

|  February 20, 2007  |  Healthcare Web Summit  |  Phone 209.577.4888  |  e-mail infohws@healthwebsummit.com |

Contact:

Patty Jamison
Healthcare Web Summit
Phone: (209) 577-4888
Email: pattyj@mcol.com

http://www.healthwebsummit.com/gillihan07.htm

A Consumer Driven Care 2007 Web Summit Event

OVERVIEW

Employees often engage in unhealthy behavior. Some may smoke. Some may eat poorly. Many fail to exercise regularly. Unhealthy behavior outside the office can often lead to increased health plan costs for the employer. How can employers effectively regulate employee behavior as a means to reducing health care costs and perhaps even absenteeism?

Many employers implement wellness and disease management programs as a way to influence healthy behavior. However, most employers and their third party administrators typically overlook the subtle compliance issues that arise in connection with a successful wellness promotion/prevention program. What may seem to the untrained eye as an innocuous program with nothing but advantages to the employees may run afoul of federal rules such as HIPAA nondiscrimination and privacy, the Americans With Disabilities Act and a variety of state laws.

Join Ashley Gillihan, partner with Alston & Bird, LLP as he navigates through the legal compliance maze and explore the pesky business and legal issues associated with wellness and disease management programs. Wellness and disease management programs are useful and viable tools for reducing health plan costs---you just need to know how to design them properly. Ashley will help you do that.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Employers
• Providers
• Benefit Managers
• Compliance Managers
• Consultants

SPEAKER

Ashley Gillihan is a partner in Alston & Bird LLP's Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group. He is also a secondary member of the firm's ERISA Litigation Group. Mr. Gillihan's legal practice focuses exclusively on assisting clients with various health and welfare benefit plan issues related to the following: 

• Implementation and administration of consumer driven health care arrangements such as Health Reimbursement Arrangements and Health Savings Accounts
• ERISA's reporting and disclosure rules 
• ERISA's fiduciary requirements 
• ERISA's claims procedure rules and regulations
• COBRA Administration 
• HIPAA Portability and Discrimination
• HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Administrative Simplification
• Tax issues associated with health and welfare benefit plans, including, but not limited to, health plans, disability plans, life insurance plans, and various other fringe benefit plans (e.g. Code Section 125 cafeteria plans, flexible spending accounts, transportation reimbursement arrangements and educational assistance plans) and VEBAs
• Various group health plan mandates related to QMCSOs, Mental Health Parity Act, the Newborn and Mother's Health Protection Act, and the Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act
• Welfare Benefit Plan issues arising from various federal employment discrimination statutes such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. 

Mr. Gillihan represents corporate plan sponsors, insurers and third party benefit plan administrators. Mr. Gillihan lectures frequently and has published numerous articles on health and welfare benefit plan related topics. He is a faculty member for MCOL, a managed health care on-line organization; and the Institute of Applied Management and Law (IAML) and he is a a member of the Advisory Board of Editors of the Benefits Compensation Law Alert and the Employer's Council on Flexible Compensation Technical Advisory Council.

LIVE QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION

Get your questions answered!  Session participants will have an opportunity to email questions in advance of the session or ask the speaker their questions during the "live" session.

PRICE

• Individual Registration: $195.  Covers a single phone line.  Multiple persons may listen via speaker phone for the individual fee.
• You can also register for the Consumer Driven Care 2007 Web Summit package which includes this and two other audio conferences, plus on-line presentations and podcasts for $495.
• Each individual receives a unique dial-in ID
• Corporate Group Pricing is available when registrations are desired for more than one phone line.  Call 209.577.4888 for details

AUDIO CONFERENCE DIAL-IN INSTRUCTIONS AND SESSION MATERIALS

Two business days prior to the event, registrants will receive a copy of the dial-in instructions and a link to the speaker presentation.  The dial-in instructions will include a unique dial-in ID Participant code that can only be used for a single phone line and not shared. Session participants will also have an opportunity to email speaker questions in advance of the live session.

REGISTRATION

 

**SAVE THE DATE: Second National Consumer Driven Healthcare Summit, September 26-28, 2007, Washington DC**

 

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