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Cutting Your Health Care Costs

Problem: Health insurance premiums continue to rise at doubledigit rates. Employers cringe when faced with negotiating better rates and having to communicate the increased costs to their employees. Solution: Larry Hicks, a national expert in helping companies manage their plans, will teach you how to cut costs while still making the CEO and employees happy. Larry will show you: How to redesign your health plan for optimum benefit Techniques for administration control When to offer HSAs (or HRAs), based on your objectives How to cover the 5% of your employees who account for 60% of your costs ... and STILL save money The benefits of disease management ... and how to improve your DM plan Methods for managing pharmaceutical costs About Your Speaker: Larry Hicks is a Senior Consultant with the Chicago office of the Hay Group. He has seventeen years of human resources consulting experience with emphasis on health benefits, executive retirement, and benefits cost management issues. He is the author of four books on health care cost management and human resource topics. His book, Health Care Cost Management: Solutions for Employers, was marketed by 23 State Chambers of Commerce and sold over 6,000 copies. Mr. Hicks served as Director of Human Resources at St. Margaret Hospital in Hammond, Indiana and St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. He was VicePresident of Human Resources at Lindberg Corporation in Chicago for eight years. Mr. Hicks has served on the Board of Directors of the Society for Human Resources Management as National Treasurer, VicePresident of Personnel Research, and VicePresident of Health, Safety and Security. He is a frequent speaker and seminar leader on compensation and benefits topics for business associations , state chambers of commerce, and national conferences for organizations such as SHRM, World at Work and Benefits Management Forum.

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