Employee Benefits Masterclass Series

A Strategic Approach to Recruit, Retain and Control Health Plan Costs

A Brown & Brown Whiteboard Event

EARN 2 SHRM & HRCI CREDITS

What's Trending in Pharmacy

  • A journey through Pharmacy 101 
  • The future of high-cost drugs in the workplace (GLP-1s, specialty medications & other 6-figure+ medications) 
  • Alternative options for delivery of medications (International, Amazon, and others)

A Strategic Approach to Health Plans & High-Cost Claims Management

  • How most health plan solutions will inevitably drive up costs for employers and employees 
  • Challenges companies encounter in effectively managing health plans and why 
  • How to “beat the system” by using your data in a way the industry cannot

When

Thursday, June 6th, 2024

9:00 AM – 11:30 AM MST

Light breakfast will be served

Where

Salt Mine Productive Workspace

7984 S 1300 E, Sandy, UT  84094

Steve Maike, R.PH

With over 35 years of experience in the pharmacy and healthcare industry, Steve currently serves as a Chief Pharmacy Officer for Remedy Analytics.​

Previously, Steve was the Director of Pharmacy Programs for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wisconsin, with operational and clinical oversight for over one million lives in PPO and HMO plans. In prior roles at Trivantage Pharmacy Strategies, Thomson Reuters/Truven and Towers Watson, he served as a Consulting Pharmacist specializing in assisting Fortune 500 employers, Taft-Hartley Trust Funds, regional health plans, health care provider organizations and state and municipal customers in their PBM procurement and auditing. He is the longest-tenured State of Wisconsin’s Medicaid Advisory Board member, serving the last five governors. 

Steve graduated from the University of Wisconsin with his pharmacy degree, completed his internship in hospital pharmacy and is currently licensed in Wisconsin.

Josh Rydberg, VP Underwriting Services at Brown & Brown

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.

This program is approved for:

2 HRCI Credits

2 SHRM Credits