Employee Benefits Masterclass

Navigating Rising Healthcare Costs & Crafting a Resilient Health Plan

A Brown & Brown Whiteboard Event

EARN 2.0 SHRM & HRCI CREDITS

Learning from Other Employer’s Compliance Mistakes

  • Common compliance errors associated with the Employer Mandate and its IRS reporting requirements
  • Plan document failures; SPDs, their distribution and their eligibility terms
  • COBRA mistakes that could cost you
  • Extended leaves of absence and their pitfalls
  • Telehealth: How it can cause issues with HSAs beginning January 1, 2025
  • Mental Health Parity: How this can be an expensive employer health plan issue

Myths & Misconceptions About Employer Health Plans

  • Why employers are failing at health plan management
  • Why your medical plan is managing the wrong population’s health
  • Why your spouses don’t cost what you think and why spousal programs don’t work
  • Why the industry benchmarks are wrong and are driving the costs of your health plan higher

When

Thursday, May 2nd, 2024

1:00 – 3:30 PM
COCKTAILS & APPETIZERS INCLUDED

Where

Clinton Presidential Center

1200 President Clinton Avenue, Little Rock, AR 72201

Amanda Olimb, J.D., Vice President of Compliance at Brown & Brown

Amanda Olimb, J.D., delivers a refreshing take on the regulatory and legislative topics that impact employee benefits programs. With nearly a decade of experience in employee benefits, she helps support customers by delving into their specific employee benefits questions and breaking down new and existing regulatory and legislative topics. Olimb also provides in-person and virtual training so customers deeply understand key issues. Her hands-on style provides listeners with practical ways to approach compliance topics.

Olimb joined Brown & Brown in 2021. She graduated magna cum laude from William Mitchell College of Law and is a Mitchell Fellow.

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.