Employee Benefits Masterclass: Understanding the Total Cost of Employment

 

A Brown & Brown Event

EARN 2 SHRM & HRCI CREDITS

Eye-opening and strongly contrary to conventional wisdom, this new session will provide powerful insight around leave management and cost drivers to help you see through some of the myths and misconceptions being pushed in the market today.  This along with the future of Women’s health equity will help employers make the right decisions for both their employees and companies’ long-term success.

Part I: The Evolving Landscape of Leave - No Signs of Slowing Down

  • Statutory Mandates Driving Employer Leave Strategy
  • Paid Family/Medical Leave
  • Unpaid Leave
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • Bereavement Leave
  • Caregiver Leave
  • Paid Time Off (vacation, holidays, PTO)
  • Accommodations / ADA

Part II: Myths & Misconceptions about Employer-Sponsored Health Plans

  • 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
  • Is having an HDHP adversely affecting your total cost of risk and driving up workers comp claims?
  • How are your broker’s best intentions could be costing you money

Part III: The Future of Women’s Health Equity & Family-Forming

  • Understand why employers are expanding fertility benefits
  • Recognize the cost of high-risk pregnancies, specifically among under-resourced populations and how employers are responding
  • Learn why employers are expanding coverage for services that support the entire family care continuum including parental wellbeing and children’s health

When

Wednesday, July 26th, 2023

2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Where

Pinstripes – Oak Brook

7 Oakbrook Center
Oak Brook, IL 60523

Jennifer Smith-Hulbert
Director – Healthcare Innovation | Benefits Consultant

 In this role, Jenn is responsible for monitoring innovative and non-traditional healthcare strategies, vendors, and disruptors bubbling up around the country.  Jenn regularly meets with these cutting-edge solution providers, and brings back innovative products, strategies, and thought processes to benefit our teams and our clients.

A key component of Jenn’s role is to assess, summarize, and make available locally the initiatives, services, vendors, and disruptors being vetted by the national Brown & Brown “Innovation Lab”. Jenn reviews strategies emerging across the country with clients and prospects.

Prior Jenn was a national sales director and consultant accumulating over 15 years of experience creating new, innovative channels for employers to access and purchase healthcare.  She lowers total health plan costs while improving patient outcomes through strategies that challenge the status quo, meet employers long term benefit goals and match company culture.

Melanie Payton
Senior Director & Practice Leader – Absence Consulting | Strategic Non-Medical Solutions

Melanie Payton is the Senior Director of the Absence Practice at Brown & Brown SNS, with more than 21 years of experience in the absence and disability space. Melanie is responsible for all aspects of absence management programs for SNS' clients including plan and process assessments, compliance reviews, RFPs, vendor selections, benchmarking, and managing our absence consultants and audit practice. Melanie's specialty consulting skills within absence, disability, Family Medical Leave and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) include claims service delivery, time off, disability and leave plan assessment, and design and compliance. She has experience in best practice administration designs, comparator benchmarking and vendor management. Melanie also has many years of experience in the learning and performance space and leverages this expertise as she works with clients through organizational change. Melanie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from Ohio State University. She also holds the Certified Leave Management Specialist (CLMS) designation from the Disability Management Employer Coalition (DMEC) and a Life and Health broker license from the state of Ohio.

his program is approved for:

2 HRCI Credits

2 SHRM Credits