Business Insurance Online Executive Forum^TM Webinar

"Wellness and Consumer-Driven Health Care:
Contradictory or Complementary?"

Presentation date: August 14, 2007

Consumer-driven health plans are an important element in employers' efforts to control rising health care costs, but if employee wellness is overlooked, they may not be as effective as desired.

Although much of the emphasis in consumer-driven health care has been on encouraging to take greater responsibility for their own health care needs through increased cost-sharing, the wellness component of these plans is also critical for encouraging employees to take better care of themselves. However, many employers are concerned that employees enrolled in high-deductible plans will forego preventive medical treatment since they are bearing more of the cost themselves.

Listen to this Business Insurance Online Executive Forum^TM Webinar for an in-depth panel discussion of how employers can successfully incorporate wellness into their consumer-driven health plans to maintain employee wellness and achieve their cost control goals. During the live online event, you will hear expert viewpoints and have opportunities to question the panelists.

Don't miss "Mapping Consumer-Driven Health Care: Strategies to Drive Enrollment and Employee Understanding," another archived webinar available here.

PANELISTS:

• Elizabeth A. Dudek, Vp, Practice Leadership, Thomson Healthcare
  

  Elizabeth A. Dudek is Vp, Practice Leadership for Thomson Healthcare in Ann Arbor, Mich.

  She joined Thomson Healthcare, a health care information provider, in 2005 as Director of Practice Leadership for the company's employer market. In 2006, she was promoted to Vp and is now responsible for the development and delivery of consulting solutions across both the employer and health plan customer base.

  Elizabeth brings more than 25 years of experience dealing with all types of employee benefit issues and has amassed technical expertise in the strategic planning, analysis, design, pricing and funding of health and welfare plans through her work with varying types of healthcare payers. Elizabeth places particular emphasis working with customers to develop and execute on a multi-year, holistic strategy to support their business plan, keep them competitive, foster health care management, and preserve quality and population health.

  Prior to joining Thomson, she was a Vp and National Corporate Health Practice Leader for The Segal Co., which she joined in 1996 as a Senior Health Consultant and leader of the Washington, D.C. Health Practice. Earlier, Elizabeth was a Managing Consultant with Sedgwick Noble Lowndes.





• Stephanie Pronk, Chief Health Officer, RedBrick Health
  

  Stephanie Pronk is Chief Health Officer of RedBrick Health in Minneapolis.

  She is responsible for developing and executing on the health strategies of RedBrick Health, which provides employers with consulting and services to maximize the transition to CDHPs. Stephanie provides health care leadership to various initiatives including product and service development, partnerships and alliances and day to day operations. She is also responsible for creating collaboration with clients to develop innovative strategies aimed at promoting the health and well-being of their employees.

  Prior to joining RedBrick Health, she was Vp of Health Management Solutions at Ingenix, where she was responsible for leading all health management products and consulting services for payers and employers. She also developed and led national health management consulting operations for various human capital consulting organizations, including Watson Wyatt and William M. Mercer.

  Stephanie also brings actual hands on experience of developing, implementing and evaluating health promotion programs at Westinghouse Electric Corp., where she was nationally recognized for her innovative program design and results.





• Mark Snyder, Director of Benefits, Owens Corning Corp.
  

  Mark Snyder is director of benefits at Owens Corning Corp. based in Toledo, Ohio. In this role he is responsible for development, design, delivery and communication of Owen Corning's health, life, disability, retirement, and relocation programs, globally. Mark also has responsibility for the people integration of all Owens Corning mergers and acquisitions.

  Mark led the efforts to move Owens Corning to a consumer Directed Health Care program in 2004 by offering two HRA plans along with a PPO. Through innovative plan designs and cutting-edge communication vehicles, Owens Corning achieved a seventy-one percent enrollment in its consumer directed plans. In 2005, a third HRA plan was added for more choice. Owens Corning has maintained the 71% enrollment in the HRA plans and will be adding two new HSA options beginning January 2007.

  Mark has been with Owens Corning for 22 years; the last 11 in the Benefits area. He was named Benefits Director in 2000. Prior to this, he was in the finance organization. Mark is currently on the Executive Customer Advisory Board for Aetna and Delta Dental's Consumer Advisory Committee and was recently recognized by the Benefits and Compensation Solutions Magazine for his work in the Benefits arena. Mark has spoken at the National Business Group on Health, World Health Congress, Florida Health Care Coalition, Ohio Employers Summit on Health Care and other benefit venues.

The event is moderated by Business Insurance Senior Editor Joanne Wojcik,
with interactive Q&A from the live audience.