Employee Benefits Masterclass

Building a Health Plan Strategy to Tackle Compliance, Compensation and Costs

A Brown & Brown Event

Compliance Update: Avoiding Pitfalls and What Employers Should Know for 2025

  • Medicare Part D: To be creditable coverage or not to be creditable coverage (that is the question?)
  • ERISA Fiduciary Duties – Plan assets: Am I making a mistake?
  • Wellness Programs: Class action suits that are not good for your health
  • HIPAA: Reproductive rights and where can I go wrong?

Addressing Care Gaps, Talent Attraction and Rising Costs

  • Are your health plans a magnet for top talent—or driving them away?
  • What we have learned about delay of care and how to avoid potential pitfalls
  • How and why the industry amplifies the inflationary effects of medical trend
  • The staggering growth of high-cost claimants and what can you do about it

When

Thursday, March 13th, 2025

9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Light breakfast will be served

Where

Salt Mine Productive Workspace

7984 S 1300 E, Sandy, UT 84094

Josh Rydberg
Senior Vice President, Underwriting Services

As Vice President of Underwriting Services, Josh’s primary role is to design and implement financial management strategies for clients across the country. He also develops, maintains and delivers financial tools and methodologies that assist in the effective management of employer-sponsored health plans.

Josh routinely provides internal and external education regarding unique opportunities for groups to improve health plan structure. By leveraging a distinctive presentation style, he illustrates the impact of pricing and consumer purchasing behavior on both employers and members. This simplification of complex theories creates actionable results that are often contrary to current trends.

A broad insurance background – which includes pricing for workers’ compensation, automobile, homeowners and various other property and casualty coverages in addition to group benefits – allows Josh an objective perspective when devising and communicating winning medical plan strategies. It also provides him the ability to engage with clients that are interested in evaluating enterprise risk and cost.

With over ten years of regulatory and legislative strategy experience, Christopher Bao serves as the Vice President – Regulatory and Legislative Strategy in the Employee Benefits division of Brown & Brown. In his role, Christopher is responsible for researching, analyzing, presenting and advising parties on strategies and best practices for group health plans. He also supports internal colleagues and Brown & Brown customers by reviewing and analyzing both federal and state laws that govern Employee Health and Welfare Benefit plans. These areas include HIPAA, the Affordable Care Act, ERISA and COBRA.

Christopher has experience in employee health and welfare benefits and seven years of litigation experience. Prior to joining Brown & Brown, he worked at a large international insurance brokerage firm in the areas of compliance and Employee Health and Welfare Benefits. Prior to that role, Christopher worked as a litigator in private practice. He joined Brown & Brown in August of 2022.