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Wellness Incentive Compliance 
a Healthcare Web Summit Audioconference

Monday, March 19th, 2007
1:00 - 2:00 PM Eastern (10 AM Pacific)
Ashley Gillihan, Partner
Alston & Bird, Atlanta, GA   

You can register for this event for $195, or you can register for the Consumer Driven Care 2007 Web Summit package which includes this and two other audioconferences plus on-line presentations and podcasts for $495.

This one hour audioconference includes the following presentation, with time allotted to ask your questions of the faculty:
Wellness Incentive Compliance
Ashley Gillihan, Partner
Alston & Bird, Atlanta, GA   

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.

 

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