SHRM Learning Objective:  Health Cost Equation to Better Manage Health Risk

For most employers, healthcare costs are the fastest growing line item on the corporate PnL, yet most managers have little to no insight on what drives healthcare costs, or how to best manage those costs. This presentation will unlock the drivers of rising healthcare costs, and discuss real risk management and cost containment strategies. By understanding the Health Cost Equation, this presentation will discuss how HR leaders can begin to change the healthcare dialogue around the corporate boardroom table.

• Understanding of what drives healthcare pricing

• Understanding of what drives healthcare utilization

• Understanding of what employers can control and what they cannot control with respect to managing health risks

• Understanding of viable strategies to manage health risk

Speaker: SCOTT PARKS, CARE TEAM HEALTH

Speaker Bio:

Scott Parks is the President of CareTeam Health, and is an avid healthcare entrepreneur. He is the President and Co-Founder of CareTeam Health, a worksite healthcare company that operates onsite and shared direct access primary care clinics exclusively for employers. He is passionate about making basic healthcare service more convenient, affordable, and more personal. He believe employers are the key to true healthcare transformation in America, and is an advocate of utilizing direct primary care as an active cost containment and risk management strategy for employers. Before founding CareTeam Health, he worked with some of the largest health systems across the US to deploy strategies to make physicians more efficient in their practices. He also is the Founder of a watersports company, Zup, which was featured on the ABC show SharkTank. Scott is a native of the Tidewater area, and graduated from the College of William and Mary and received his MBA from the University of Florida.

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