Serious Cost Containment Without Cost Shifting to Employees: Managing Costs by Managing Details

Learning Objectives:

•To educate those in a Human Resource role, directly involved in benefit decision-making or not, on current and future cost drivers and practical implications of health reform beyond the laws themselves, and how to provide a low cost health plan that still fulfills employee needs.
• Provide tools and solutions to assist those in the HR role to properly evaluate benefit solutions and alternatives and proactively create a strategy for keeping employee satisfaction high.
• Learn about savings opportunities and plan design solutions for your health plan.

Session Description:

This presentation is designed to be both an educational and forward thinking session in helping employers continue to maintain a balanced approach to employee benefits. The session will also elaborate on opportunities and provide solutions and new innovations in employee benefit design for HR representatives to share with other company decision-makers to allow their company to continue to provide competitive benefits for helping to attract and retain a strong, healthy workforce.

Biography:

Jim Farley has over 30 years experience in the benefits industry, both within his own company and in leading industry organizations. Jim's experience includes leadership in the Third Party Administration Industry, serving as the president of The Self Funded Institute of Ohio, as Chairman of the National Association of Employee Benefits Administrators (NAEBA), and as Chairman of the Society of Professional Benefit Administrators (SPBA), and President of QUBIC, a consortium of innovative third party administrators. Jim has presented a variety of benefits topics to varied audiences, including company boards, and to local and national conference attendees and in radio guest spots. Mr. Farley's work with company decision-makers, human resource managers, financial officers, consultants, brokers and his own team of employees in provided him with a diverse array of discussion presentation and facilitation opportunities across the country. Jim has also testified in legislative and rule making hearings at the state and federal levels and served on the Ohio Department of Insurance Administrators Review Board.