EBRI December 2010 Policy Forum #67

Innovations in Employment-Based Health Benefits

Policy Forum Agenda

Speaker Biographies

Policy Forum Presentations:

Panel I - Employer Innovations in Health Care Financing and Delivery

• Paul Fronstin, Employee Benefit Research Institute
  • "Findings from the 2010 EBRI/MGA Consumer Engagement in Health Care Survey"
  • Consumer Engagement in Health Care Survey
• Paul Grundy, IBM
  • "Why Employers Care about Patient Centered"
  • "The Group Health Medical Home At Year Two: Cost Savings, Higher Patient Satisfaction, And Less Burnout For Providers"
  • "Patient-Centered Medical Home: What, Why and How?"
  • "Outcomes of Implementing Patient-Centered Medical Home Interventions: A Review of the Evidence From Prospective Evaluation Studies in the United States"
  • "The Family Doctor: A Remedy for Health-Care Costs?"
• Hank Scheff, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
  • "AFSCME Council 31's Health Improvement Plan"
  • Additional readings
• John Harris, Healthways
  • "Key Learnings for Employers from the Gallup Healthways Well-Being Index"
  • "Well-Being Index"
  • "Savings Potential from Prevention and Risk Reduction for the Commercially Insured"
  • "An Interview with John Harris"

Panel II - Implications of the Election for Employment-Based Health Benefits

• Joe Antos, American Enterprise Institute
• Chip Kerby, Liberté Group
• Barbara Coufal, AFSCME

Panel III - Will Employers Continue to Innovate Post-PPACA?

• Jeffrey White, Boeing
• Jeanne Denz, General Mills
• Dave Guilmette, CIGNA
• Thomas Lerche, Aon Hewitt