Arguably one of the greatest dysfunctions of the U.S. healthcare system is the demoted position of primary care. Unfortunately, primary care has been relegated as a sort of “loss leader” in the healthcare delivery system, designed to serve as a referral source to higher cost specialists or facilities rather than allowing doctors enough time to treat patients holistically on the front-end. The Affordable Care Act rightly promoted the importance of primary care by eliminating cost for preventive services, but this is not adequate by itself.

Join us as we explain the importance and value of primary care and outline strategies that promote its use through plan design and direct care arrangements.

Effective risk transfer can save your organization money by lowering your overall cost of risk and keeping you competitive in the markets in which you operate. In this webinar featuring special guest Harvey Berns of Travelers, we will discuss the importance of identifying and effectively managing liabilities arising out of business relationships with other contractors, vendors, owners, architects, and engineers.

Discussion topics include:

• Understanding the importance of written contracts
• Recognizing contractual relationships commonly found on construction projects
• Identifying the duties and triggers found within indemnification clauses
• Recognizing the importance of including insurance requirements in contracts
• Recognizing risk exposures associated with contracts from a claim perspective
• Recognizing the need to establish a record retention policy
• Assessing your company's contractual risk transfer processes

What does a safety culture truly look like? In this webinar, Gibson and special guests ANVL combine factual information with first-hand experience in order to clearly define and lay out the groundwork for a top-notch safety culture.

Discussion topics include:

• Benefits of a proactive safety culture
• Tackling the challenges
• Managing data in a crisis

Did you know that, for most health plans, a mere 6-8% of covered members account for 80% of total claims spend? One of the foundational strategies behind value-based purchasing is focusing on reducing the frequency and severity of high cost claims. In other words, focus on the 6% of your members driving the majority of your costs and claims volatility in your plan.

Join us as we expose this prevalent challenge and debunk the myth that employers are helpless when it comes to managing the risk of high cost outlier patients.

Gibson and Hanover Insurance have partnered once more to provide employers with best practices as businesses prepare to reopen amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Join us as we discuss pertinent topics such as staff communication strategies, disinfecting workstations, start up of equipment, ADA and PTO policies, and much more.

Discussion topics include:

• Communicating with staff and customers
• Cleaning stations and staggered shifts/lunches
• Disinfecting equipment and verification of property damage
• Sending employees home, layoff/recall
• Phishing schemes and payroll modification

Recent scandals and public scrutiny have started to shine a bright light on the opaque business practices of big pharma manufacturers and pharmacy benefits managers. Despite this scrutiny, the cost of prescription medications continues to rise as manufacturers focus on developing high cost specialty medications and lack of regulation permits various players to arbitrarily inflate the cost of prescriptions year over year.

Join us as we shine a light into the “black box” of prescription medications. We’ll explain how prescription medications are sourced and procured, how PBMs get paid in oftentimes hidden ways, and how you can better manage your pharmacy spend.