Employers are realizing that caregiving is an important benefit to offer their employees. The aging population means that many more individuals need to take care of their family members. This event will discuss benefits employers can offer as well as a wellness technique that can be implemented.
Join employers in the northwest region of Wisconsin as we provide you with a keynote speaker on how to contain health care costs as well as important updates from The Alliance. Keynote Speaker: Dr. A. Mark Fendrick is the Center’s Director and a Professor of Internal Medicine in the School of Medicine and a Professor of Health […]
Specialty pharmacy has consistently been one of the top three health care cost drivers in recent years. To counter that trend, employers should act now to control when and how they offer specialty pharmaceuticals to enrollees. Market consolidation is expected to trim employers’ options, making it more important than ever to carefully craft your specialty strategies. This event will identify the top challenges in managing pharmacy benefits and offer tactics for addressing them.
Learn more from Dr. Mike Tuggy, a board-certified rural family medical physician in Winthrop, Washington. He is passionate about the benefits of having a primary care doctor and the value of receiving quality care. In this one hour presentation, Dr. Tuggy will present the problem of health care and the current system of primary care. Later in his part two presentation (Aug. 22) he will present how employers can implement a solution to the problem with seven healthy habits of advanced primary care.
The opioid epidemic and treatment is costing employers big. The Alliance is tackling this topic head on with insights from multi-stakeholders offering their perspectives and ideas on how employers can help combat this issue.
Diagnosing An American Sickness: What Employers and Patients Can Do to Take Back Health Care At the biggest event of the year attendees heard from best-selling author, Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal, who has diagnosed what ails American health care. This half-day event featured two powerful women who offer advice about how to treat the American sickness in […]
Elisabeth Rosenthal is the author of An American Sickness, which describes how health care became big business and how you can take it back. She looks at how people currently use health care and suggests ways to address high spending and overtreatment.
Whether it is ACA or whatever comes next, make sure you are up-to-date on the latest compliance and health policy action items.
The Alliance received a grant from Novo Nordisk and the National Alliance of Health Care Purchasers to hold this event. Obesity rates and the related health care costs continue to rise. In the United States two-thirds of adults and one-third of children struggle with being overweight or obese. In Wisconsin alone, obesity is linked to more […]