Employee Benefit Adviser: HPM Can Step in Where Health Reform Falls Short

August 25, 2010

The much discussed lack of cost containment in the new health reform law is just one factor that has employers nervous about losing their grandfathered status for existing health care plans. The Healthcare Performance Management Institute's George Pantos explains how HPM can come to the cost-saving rescue.

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Health Business Blog: Podcast Interview with Healthcare Performance Management

June 30, 2010
David E. Williams of the Health business blog

The Healthcare Performance Management Institute is a new think tank dedicated to the use of technology and management principles to deliver more cost-effective health care benefits for employers. The idea is to use the same techniques in health care cost and quality management that the private sector successfully deploys in core business processes such as customer service, supply chain management and enterprise resource planning.

In this podcast interview, the Institute’s Executive Director George Pantos and board member Keith Lemer discuss their ambitions for the Institute. (Published by the Health Business Blog)

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Business Strategies for Addressing Grandfather Plan Strategies

On June 14th the Health and Human Services Department issued its interim final rules which stated that if employers do not alter their benefit designs significantly -- or shift more costs to workers in 2011, then existing plans will not be subject to the immediate requirements of the landmark healthcare legislation that was passed this year.

The webcast provides an analysis of:

• The implications of new grandfather rules;
• The impact on employers who are affected;
• Effective response strategies; and
• The Role of Healthcare Performance Management

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Executive Leaders Radio Interviews with Two Advisory Board Members

 Executive Leaders Radio interviews HPM Institute Board members Keith Lemer and Henry Cha, whose companies, WellNet Healthcare and Healthcare Interactive, both implement HPM strategies. Both share their personal and business experience with the audience.

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Leveraging Technology & Transparency to Create Health Insurance Plan Savings

At M Financial Group's 2010 M Corporate Benefits Meeting held on May 10-12, Bill Lavis, Senior Vice President and Partner at Sitzmann Morris and Lavis and a member of the Institute Advisory Board, walks attendees through how one company is providing healthcare performance management principles, using proprietary technology, licensed nurse outreach and proactive advisory services, to his firm's clients.

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WEBCAST: Decrease Healthcare Costs and Improve Quality Through HPM

During this interactive discussion we explore: 

• The current state of enterprise healthcare management
• The costs and risks to which organizations are currently exposed
• Alternative business strategies for addressing out-of-control cost trends
• Key metrics and management tactics for achieving the twin objectives of reduced costs and improved outcomes.

Lane Cooper, Editorial Director of BizTechReports, moderates a panel chat with: 

• William “Bill” Lavis, Vice President and leader of Employee Benefits practice at Sitzmann Morris & Lavis (SML) since 1988. He is recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts in designing consumer driven health plans, creating alternative funding options and building cutting edge care management & cost control programs. 
• George Pantos, Executive Director of Healthcare Performance Management Institute, has served as Chief Counsel for the Self Insurance Institute of America (SIIA) and is a former partner in the national law firm Vedder Price of Chicago, Pantos co-founded and served as counsel to The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC), a national coalition of 125 major employers concerned with ERISA benefits issues.
• Henry Cha, President of Healthcare Interactive, is a healthcare technologist who specializes in delivering software as a service (SaaS) offerings that help companies better manage employee healthcare programs and related costs. Cha has employed predictive modeling and latent class modeling to identify risk parameters.

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Interview with George Pantos and David Harlow

Healthcare Performance Management Institute's Executive Director, George Pantos, speaks with David Harlow about tools and strategies for employers to manage health care services and expenses