Rethink Your Population’s Health

Strategies to Help Improve Practices of Leave Management, Population Health, Wellness, Culture & Cost

A Brown & Brown Whiteboard Event Series

EARN 2 SHRM, HRCI & CPE CREDITS

Thursday, April 13 | 1:00 – 5:00 PM

Seminar I | Risk Pool Management: How to Develop a Winning Health Plan

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 helping to minimize cost and maximize 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 costs

Thursday, May 25 | 1:00 – 5:00 PM

Seminar II | A Strategic Approach to Health Plan Funding & Catastrophic Claims Management

Whether fully insured or self-funded, employers are losing to insurers by routinely miscalculating what is actually in their best interest. Learn how the industry is failing employers, encouraging the wrong decisions and driving insurer profits.

  • What your health risk really is and why you are measuring it incorrectly
  • How health plan funding actually works
  • Why medical reporting is deceptive and irrelevant
  • How to “beat the system” by using your data in a way the industry cannot

Wednesday, June 28 | 1:00 – 5:00 PM

Seminar III | Myths & Misconceptions about Employer Health Plans

Please note the additional speaker and updated schedule!

Although many popular ideas about medical plans are based on truth, the complicated issues involved can be misunderstood or oversimplified to the point of being false or misleading. A favorite among attendees, this seminar seeks to provide a deeper understanding of how plan sponsors make many decisions that often have unforeseen and detrimental consequences.

  • Why you shouldn’t trust the solutions the industry is providing for increased Rx costs
  • Why your spouses don’t cost what you think and why spousal programs don’t work
  • Why your medical plan is managing the wrong population’s health
  • How your broker’s best intentions actually cost you money

Details

Earn 2.0 CPE, SHRM and HRCI credits

Chance to win a Dyson Supersonic hair dryer and Bose speaker!

Where

Amaterra Winery

8150 SW Swede Hill Drive, Portland, OR 97225

Dave Ross

As an Executive Vice President, David’s role is to provide guidance and leadership that fosters each office’s ability to satisfy their growth objectives. David is a key player in defining Brown & Brown’s macro initiatives and providing the vision, tools and education to support those objectives.

David’s secondary role is the Director of Underwriting Services where his primary responsibilities include the development and maintenance of financial tools and methodologies that improve clients’ ability to effectively manage their employer-sponsored health plans. David’s role keeps him actively involved in the management of key accounts, representing more than 300,000 members.

Additionally, David acts as a national resource and the primary source of both internal and external education and support regarding efficient health plan structure. David spends much of his time traveling around the country educating consultants, employers and legislative bodies on the many counter-intuitive and nuanced components of effective health care cost management.

Previously, David 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, David acted as an internal liaison between actuarial, underwriting and sales and assisted with BCBS’s lobbying efforts to expand the HDHP marketplace.David has periodically taught statistics at Minnesota State University where he earned his bachelors degree in Finance.

Christopher Bao

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. 

This program is approved for:

2 HRCI Credits

2 SHRM Credits

2 CPE Credits