Risk Pool Management

Eye-opening and strongly contrary to conventional wisdom, this foundational seminar establishes the critical thinking necessary to effectively manage a health plan. This seminar is for plan sponsors that are serious about optimizing recruitment and retention while minimizing cost and maximizing employee satisfaction.

• Why employers are failing at health plan management
• How “best practices” are repelling the best talent and souring corporate culture
• Why the industry benchmarks are wrong and are driving the costs of your health plan higher
• How to structure your medical offering to increase the value of benefits and reduce cost

Monday, January 27, 2025

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Mastro’s Steakhouse

246 N Canon Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM

Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar

455 Newport Center Dr., Newport Beach, CA 92660

Dave Ross, National Director of Benefits Strategy at Brown & Brown

In a past life, Dave worked as an Underwriting Strategist at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota where he designed pricing methodologies that satisfied Blue Cross Blue Shield’s strategic objectives. During his tenure, Dave acted as an internal liaison between actuarial, underwriting and sales and assisted with BCBS’s lobbying efforts to expand the High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) marketplace.

Today, Dave spends much of his time traveling around the country educating employers and legislative bodies on the many counterintuitive and nuanced components of effective healthcare cost management. A true educator, Dave uses a whiteboard to illustrate how many employers have been and continue to be misled by the industry resulting in unsustainably increasing healthcare costs for both employers and their employees.

Dave is the National Director of Benefits Strategy at Brown & Brown, where he develops and maintains financial tools and methodologies that improve customers’ ability to effectively manage their employer-sponsored health plans. Dave’s role keeps him actively involved in managing key accounts, representing more than 300,000 members across the country.

This program is approved for:

2 SHRM Credits