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Delivering the
Health Dividend:
Towers Perrin 2009 Health Care Cost Survey Results |
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
1:00 - 2:15PM Eastern
http://www.healthwebsummit.com/towers022609.htm
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OVERVIEW |
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| Now in its 20th year, the
annual Towers Perrin Health Care Cost Survey explores the
market forces and issues that drive employer-provided health benefit
programs. The 2009 survey results are based on responses from 609 of the
nation's largest companies, covering approximately 13 million U.S.
employees, retirees and dependents. The survey findings are, of course,
highly relevant to health care and health benefit professionals in
today’s tough economic environment.
Highlights include the following:
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Average health care costs will
increase 6% in 2009 to an average total per employee cost of $9,552.
While the rate of growth is holding steady with prior year
increases, companies and their employees still face record-high
costs in 2009.
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Costs of this magnitude --- and
continuing increases above core economic inflation --- are clearly
problematic in a steep recessionary environment. But even in these
tough economic times, companies with high-performing health programs
are capturing a health dividend in the form of both increased
efficiency and improved workforce performance.
For the fourth consecutive year, the
survey analysis includes insights into the strategies and tactics
leading companies use to keep health care costs down and program value
up. For example, high-performing companies will pay, on average, 12%
less ($1,200 per employee) than low-performing companies in 2009 --- a
cost differential that quickly adds up to millions of dollars in annual
savings for both employers and employees.
The survey results also suggest that the
health dividend high-performing companies achieve includes other
positive workforce management outcomes beyond cost savings, such as
higher employee engagement.
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES |
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How high performing companies gain a
health dividend by:
- Building the link between
workforce health and business results
- Engaging employees, promoting a
culture of health and proactively managing change
- Investing in a broad range of
existing and emerging health management programs and approaches
- Designing and pricing programs to
create transparency and appropriate incentives
- Rigorously measuring program and
vendor performance against goals
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PRICING |
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Individual Registration Fee: $225. Audio Conference CD-ROM: $40
for attendees; $285 for non-attendees after the event.
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registration fee covers a single phone line
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persons may listen via speaker phone with individual
registration fee
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be shared
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