Message from the President
It’s hard to believe we’re already half way through 2019 – it’s been a busy year for MBGH! During the first half of the year, we hosted numerous educational programs, webinars, employer advisory boards and benchmarking surveys. Our signature event in May, the annual conference, was chock-full of thought-provoking speakers and a great opportunity to network. Check out the links to the right for the recordings and summaries from our 2019 year-to-date educational programs and annual conference. I hope to see you at our all-member luncheon and social event on September 11th! Until then, enjoy your summer!
P.S. We launched our innovative pharmacy benefits solution, EmployeR
xEvolution at the annual conference. To learn more,
click here
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Cheryl Larson
President & CEO
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Check out the important program links below!
- Employer Forum on Wellness, Wellbeing & Engagement
- Marijuana Legalization: Employer Issues, Challenges & Opportunities
- Healthy and Productive Aging: Employer Strategies that Support the Older Workforce & Covered Retirees
- Benefits, Best Practices & Integrative Pain Management Strategies for Musculoskeletal
- 39th Annual Conference
- Employer Forum on Pharmacy Benefits & Specialty Drugs: Oncology & Genomic Medicine
- Summary of Plan Description (SPD) Delivery
- Diabetes Initiatives
- Pain Management & Addiction
- Leave Benefits
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Summer is a great time to begin planning for the fall open enrollment period. We encourage you to check out the
MBGH Toolkits
which are packed with strategies to:
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build the business case,
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review your current plan design,
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support your efforts to reduce health risks, and
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drive behaviors that not only improve the overall health of your organization but also positively impact your health care spend.
MBGH will host two webinars during the month of July. For member convenience, the WELCOA webinar will be offered twice. Our annual member luncheon will
be held on September 11. This is our time to celebrate you, our members. Please mark your calendars!
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Webinar: Managing Migraine in the Workplace
Tuesday, July 16; 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM CT
This webinar will help you gain a better understanding of migraine-related workplace issues and learn about easy to implement programs from leading employers.
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Webinar: An Introduction to WELCOA
- Wednesday, July 10; 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CT
- Tuesday, July 23; 4:00 PM – 5 PM CT
Please join us for one of these two webinars to learn more about the latest enhancement to your MBGH membership. All employer members receive an individual, complimentary membership to
WELCOA (Wellness Council of America), including access to their
resources, training and certification courses (a $395 value). This new benefit will launch in July.
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Annual Member Luncheon and Social Event
Social Determinants of Health: Bridging Business & Community
September 11; 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM (CT)
Save the Date!
Join members and colleagues for our annual member luncheon and social event where you will eat great food, get a chance to network and have a little fun! We will be joined by MBGH's medical director, Dr. Jan Berger, who will moderate a panel of leading emplo
yers on programs and tactics designed to address the social determinants of health that affect employees.
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To register for these events, visit
mbgh.org.
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MBGH 39
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ANNUAL CONFERENCE WAS A BIG SUCCESS!
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MBGH's annual conference in May was a resounding success with record participation, cutting-edge and engaging speakers and unmatched networking opportunities for employers and sponsors! Attendees learned from innovative employer purchasers and leading benefits experts about ways to more effectively manage costs and improve population health. Of the 345 who attended, 95% said they would recommend the annual conference to a colleague and 74% are planning to return May 7-8, 2020.
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“Employer innovation will influence, dictate, educate and inform the debate about the future of the health care system in this country.”
– Ilyse Schulman, Sr. Vice President, Health Policy, American Benefits Council
Shaping Employee Benefits for an Evolving U.S. & Global Workforce
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“We have an addiction to choice, not just in health care but in everything.”
– Jan Berger, MD, CEO, Health Intelligence Partners & MBGH Medical Director
Single-Payer Health Care -Myths, Facts and Lessons Learned from Around the World
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“Our genes haven’t changed, our choices have.”
– Michael F. Roizen, MD, Chief Wellness Officer, Cleveland Clinic
What to Eat When: A Strategic Plan to Improve Your Health and Life Through Food
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Celebrating our 40th Annual Conference
To accommodate the growing number of attendees at our annual conference, MBGH has secured a larger venue for our 40th annual conference to offer
more networking opportunities and vendor expo space.
Mark your calendar for May 7 - 8, 2020
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WELCOME NEW MBGH MEMBERS!
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Our success is driven by our membership. We all benefit from a diverse membership base, from sharing best practices and learning from each other. This helps make us one of the largest and best employer coalitions in the nation! Thank you to all of our 125+ members for your support and participation in MBGH. Here's a list of new members - WELCOME!
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- Alight Solutions
- Cigna
- Cook County
- Employee Benefits Research Institute
- First Stop Health
- Foundation Medicine
- Ginger
- Grokker
- Integrated Benefits Institute
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- Institute of Medicine of Chicago
- Leapfrog Group
- Omada Health
- RX Results
- Vida Health
- WELCOA
- WellSpark Health
- Wellthy
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Provides a quick and easy way to measure what other employers are doing in managing health benefits with aggregate results provided to members at no cost - employer members may also request a survey specific to their needs.
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EmployeR
xEvolution is our latest purchasing solution to help employers clearly define terms and conditions through optimizing their PBM contract. This enables them to achieve transparency, increase flexibility in design and focus on outcomes at the lowest unit cost. Optimizing your contract alone has the potential to save employers 10-15%!
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Provide insights into employer best practices and offer turn-key program resources including building the business case, plan design/policies, workplace strategies, employee communications and resources that have been vetted as best in class.
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You don’t have to be in Chicago or even in the Midwest to take advantage of MBGH programs, services and resources – membership is designed to support employers of any size, industry or location.
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A new enhancement to your MBGH membership – your one complimentary membership to WELCOA includes access to WELCOA resources, training and certification courses – a $395 value!
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An affordable alternative to navigate the wellness vendor landscape.
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Over the past few months, MBGH was featured in a number of publications and provided expert commentary and background information on key industry issues including single payer health care, medical tourism, HIPAA, and the measles epidemic.
A few highlights…
- In an article in Workforce, Dr. Jan Berger, MBGH chief medical director, debunked a number of misconceptions about single-payer health care and provided definitions around “Medicare”, “Medicare for All”, “Single-Payer”, “Universal Health Coverage” and “Socialized Medicine”. To effectively participate in the conversation around different health care proposals, it’s important to understand these terms and differentiators…they are not the same thing!
- Self-funding empowers employers with the ability to customize their plan design to include unconventional treatments including medical tourism. A Medical Tourism Magazine article referenced an MBGH employer benchmarking survey that provides insights into the employers’ perspective on medical plan design.
- Learnings from the annual conference, including comments from Lynn Hanessian, chief strategist at Edelman, were included in a recent Workforce article. Lynn shared interesting findings about what sources people trust for health care information – employees trust their employer more than the government or media; and trust in hospitals and health clinics is declining.
- An Employee Benefits News article outlined steps employers can take to prepare for a measles outbreak and ensure employees remain healthy. MBGH provided commentary around the impact of effective communication strategies, community partnerships and the value of the measles vaccine.
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