Leveraging Health: Current Impact of Value Based Design

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Eastern (10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Pacific)
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Detailed new survey results measuring the current impact of VBD
Strategies for leveraging change in three key domains

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Impact of VBD in leveraging change in wellness, chronic care management, and care delivery
Detailed findings and lessons learned from important new VBD employers survey
Impact of the economy on health behaviors, and on employer VBD strategies
The effect the macro-levers used in the value-based design survey had on patient behavior
Key benefit design opportunities by using value-based benefit design

Faculty:
Michael S. Jacobs R. Ph.
Principal and National Clinical Practice Leader, Buck Consultants, LLC

Faculty:
Cyndy Nayer, M.A.
President, CEO and co-founder of the Center for Health Value Innovation

Value based health benefit purchasing and benefit design have emerged as key components of benefit plan marketplace and health reform strategies. Value Based Design (VBD) uses benefit design and delivery to align incentives for workers, employers, and providers to improve health and financial outcomes through behavior change

The Center For Health Value Innovation and Buck Consultants have released the findings of plan sponsors who have had a value-based benefit design in place for 2 years or more. During this session, attendees will learn about Value Based Design, including the health and cost impact that has been seen over time by plan sponsors. Additionally, attendees will learn the most effective strategies and actions to take when implementing these types of innovative programs, and how to take them! The discussion will revolve around:

"What is Value-Based Benefit Design?"
"Why we will want Executive Support"
"How to avoid the common mistakes often made by plan sponsors when implementing these programs"
"What impact has the economic situation had on the use of value-based benefit designs?"
"How do levers support better outcomes for consumers, plan sponsors and providers?"
Finally, attendees will have the opportunity to learn about the member and provider impact these programs can have.

The Center for Health Value Innovation (CHVI), a collaborative community of stakeholders, led by employers of all sizes and sectors who are improving health status while reducing total cost trends using value-based designs and Buck Consultants have published the first survey on Value-Based Design impact, detailing the history, success, challenges, and methodology used by employers and health plan sponsors. The survey is the most comprehensive of its kind in the industry, studying 100 employers in 16 major industries, reporting on more than 1 million covered lives, including retirees. The respondents were chosen for their longevity of health plan design and the results confirm the earlier tracking from the Center.

Building from these important detailed survey results, this webinar offers critical employer insights into what is working, what could have been better, and how the levers of prevention/wellness, chronic care management, and care delivery are delivering improvement even in the economic downturn.

Participants will be able to:

Understand the key components, fundamentals and drivers of Value Based Design
Examine the current impact of VBD in leveraging change in three domains: wellness, chronic care management, and care delivery
Learn the results of the CHVI VBD survey and the impact value-based benefit design has had on plan sponsors
Ascertain the impact of the economy on health behaviors, and on employer VBD strategies
Describe the effect the macro-levers used in the value-based design survey had on patient behavior
Identify the key communication do's and don'ts that have been learned by other plan sponsors

Interested attendees would include:

C-Suite Executives
Strategy, Planning and Policy Executives and Staff
Medical Directors
Pharmacy Executives
Clinical Executives
Product Development Executives
Clinical and Business Intelligence Staff
Care Management Executives
Other Interested Parties

Attendees would represent organizations including:

Employers
Health Plans
PBMs
Pharmaceutical Organizations
Third Party Administrators
Provider Networks
Solutions Providers
Associations, Institutes and Research Organizations
Media
Other Interested Organizations

Individual Registration Fee: $195. Audio Conference CD-ROM: $40 for attendees; $255 for non-attendees after the event.

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Michael S. Jacobs R. Ph.

Principal and National Clinical Practice Leader, Buck Consultants, LLC

Michael S. Jacobs is a Principal and National Clinical Practice Leader at Buck Consultants, LLC. Michael has served at Buck since 2004, and works with clients and the pharmaceutical industry to obtain optimal outcomes on the design, pricing,
funding, impact, administration, and implementation of integrated pharmacy and clinical benefit programs.

He also assists clients with Medicare Modernization Act Part D programs, and possesses substantial knowledge in the following areas: managed care, long term care distribution, state and government programs, various employer and Taft Hartley group pharmacy benefit design and consulting, commercial insurance, hospital distribution and pricing, non-profit organizations, and the provider industry. His particular focus is on integration of medical and pharmacy claims information, data analysis and employee and patient impact of these programs, as well as strategic planning for healthcare coverage in future years, based on payer priorities and business models are including in his practice.

Previously, Michael was Regional Pharmacy Practice Leader, Southeast, for Mercer Human Resource Consulting from 2000 to 2004, where he served as a member of the National Leadership Team. From 1997 – 2000 he was Vice President Managed Care Markets Sales & Marketing with Advance-Paradigm Inc. Before that he served with
Aetna Insurance in 1997, Express Scripts from 1993 – 1997. CIBA-Geigy Pharmaceuticals from 1985 – 1993 and Band Pharmacy, Daily Drugs & Seven-Van Pharmacy (latter two owned) from 1978 – 1984.

Michael is a Registered Pharmacist in the State of Michigan, is a Member of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy, Member of the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Center for Health Value Innovation.

Cyndy Nayer, M.A.
President, CEO and co-founder of the Center for Health Value Innovation

Cyndy Nayer is a founder of the Center for Health Value Innovation and serves as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Under her direction, the Center has grown into the nation’s premier organization dedicated to sharing the evidence of improved health and economic outcomes through value-based designs. Nayer is recognized as a thought leader for value based benefit design, and continues to provide education, insight and guidance to the Center’s growing membership as well as government leaders, high-profile media, and other industry stakeholders. She has tracked the emergence, adoption and change in the value based designs and their link to consumer-directed health. She is the co-author of the first book from the Center, Leveraging Health: improve health status and bend the trend on financial outcomes with value-based designs. published in 2009. In 2006 she published a consumer handbook for value-based health decisions, entitled 101 Lifetips for Personal Health Management, identifying the roadmap for becoming the CEO of one’s health-wealth portfolio, a concept she has copyrighted.

A futurist and health improvement expert, Cyndy has forged multiple alliances for the Center, aligning its resources to share the business and academic evidence of improved health status and reduced health cost trend when consumers have access to affordable prevention, risk management, and chronic care. With her leadership, the Center is now supporting efforts in both public and private sectors to make value-based insurance design an integral component of the health system transformation.

Cyndy also leads River City Partnership on Health, Inc., a national employer health strategy company linking employers, health plans, and providers in improved Total Health Management. As the former Chair of the Missouri Governor‘s Council on Health, Nayer led the call to action and strategy for the Office of Women‘s Health. Nayer is a vigorous proponent of aligning incentives for value, driving improved economic security at the personal, organizational and community level. On behalf of the Center, and River City, she has authored multiple, authoritative articles on value based design, is often called upon to present at high-profile industry conferences including the RAND, AMCP, DMAA: the Care Continuum Alliance, Health & Human Capital Management Series, AHIP, Consumer Health and Wellness Summits, and more.

Cyndy was recently voted one of the emerging leaders on consumer directed health and a visionary for health transformation. Cyndy was awarded the CEO Leadership award in Consumer Driven Health by CDHC Solutions in September 2008. She is the past chair of the Missouri Governor’s Council on Health and Fitness, an honored Woman of Worth, the first recipient of the Missouri State Health and Fitness Professional Award, a graduate of the Missouri Focus on Women‘s Leadership and the recipient of the American Heart Association Letter of Commendation for the Aetna Women‘s Health Toolkit. Nayer is a graduate of Washington University and holds a graduate degree in Gerontology with a special focus on healthy aging. . She is married and has two daughters.

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