Registration for this event will close on May 17 at 2 pm ET.

AFFILIATES DAY: SUPPORTING EMPLOYEE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING

Live (Digital) May 17, 2023
2:00-3:30 PM Eastern

Join us for this complimentary event exclusively for WorldatWork Affiliate leaders and members. During this session, we will cover a wide range of topics on employee mental health and well-being.  First, you’ll learn about the most expensive chronic health conditions and how you can improve the well-being of your employees while mitigating the costs associated with them. Then we’ll dive into the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) and expose the underlying concepts, regulatory compliance obligations and the components of the DOL’s required comparative analysis. And we’ll end with Caregiver burnout and how you can address this ongoing crisis. 

AGENDA

  • Welcome and Introductions
  • Session 1: Finding the Uncommon and Addressing Top Clinical Cost Drivers
  • Session 2: DOL's New Charge - Understanding & Administering Mental Health Parity Compliance Obligations
  • Session 3: Caregiving's Impact on Employee Mental Health: What Leading Employers Do
  • Closing/What is Next

PROGRAM DETAILS

Session 1
Finding the Uncommon and Addressing Top Clinical Cost Drivers

Based on a study of five chronic health conditions, the Health Action Council and UnitedHealthcare released a white paper, Finding the Uncommon: Exploring Disparities in Care and Prescribing for Common Conditions. In this session, find out the costliest conditions, top cost drivers, and what causes each one to be so expensive.  We’ll also compare chronic health conditions and provide insight into why they differ across demographics, geography, and social determinates of health for more than 280,000 insured members. Understanding and addressing these conditions not only mitigates expenses but improves employee well-being.

During this session, you will:

  • Learn how employers can encourage and support preventable common chronic conditions and the cost drivers associated
  • Discover a population of individuals who are sub-optimally treated with evidence-based drugs across all age groups 
  • Find out which common chronic conditions have a direct correlation to income bands, with the highest rates affecting those earning the least

Presenters: 

  • Craig Kurtzweil, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, UnitedHealthcare

Session 2
DOL's New Charge: Understanding & Administering Mental Health Parity Compliance Obligations

As reported in the DOL's first Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA) report to Congress in 2022, not a single employer audited was able to demonstrate substantive compliance with the law's requirements. 

This session will provide intermediate and advanced HR practitioners with a practical and actionable review of MHPAEA's requirements. We will review compliant plan design schematics respecting both Quantitative Treatment Limitations ("QTL's") and Non-quantitative Treatment Limitations ("NQTL's") and review requirements related to the employer's NQTL comparative analysis obligations. We will also review the plan-level participant and beneficiary-directed responsive communication requirements for employers responding MHPAEA-related claims and coverage issues.

During this session, you will

  • Understand the concepts underlying MHPAEA, including, without limitation, mental health parity, substance use disorder parity, classification of plan-level benefits, identification of prohibited QTL's and NQTL's within a specific benefit plan and specific benefit testing rules
  • Understand and apply regulatory compliance obligations respecting the plan-level administration of QTL's and NQTL's, both as written and as in actual operation of the underlying benefit plan 
  • Analyze, evaluate and create components of the DOL's required comparative analysis of NQTL's across the six (6) permitted classifications of plan-level benefits
  • Apply and analyze MHPAEA's required participant and beneficiary communication requirements related to plan-level covered services and benefit claims arising in the mental health and substance use disorder benefit context
  • Understand, apply and analyze the enforcement protocols and various interdiction levers available to the DOL, HHS and state-level insurance and regulatory bodies, respecting MHPAEA compliance obligations for the employee benefit plan sponsor

Presenter:

  • Jason Sheffield, BRPs National Compliance Director, US Employee Benefits Group

Session 3
Caregiving’s Impact on Employee Mental Health: What Leading Employers Do

Caregiving burnout is reaching a boiling point, resulting in real and costly impacts for organizations. Employees are stretched thin working and caring for children, aging parents, and family members with special needs, leading to productivity loss, mental health challenges, decreased well-being, and increased turnover. However, caregiving remains a largely unaddressed challenge. During this session, you’ll learn how leading employers are addressing family caregiving to improve the health of their workforce and business. 

During this session, you will learn:

  • Key behaviors across organizations that indicate employees are struggling to balance their caregiving responsibilities and work.  
  • Show to attribute caregiving support to greater overall workplace outcomes, such as decreased turnover, increased productivity, and improved well-being 
  • The tools required to generate a plan to better support the caregiving population. 

Presenter:

  • Dave Jacobs, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Homethrive

PRESENTERS

Director, Affiliates
WorldatWork
VP, Center for Advanced Analytics
UnitedHealthcare
National Director of Compliance
Baldwin Risk Partners
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Homethrive
Vice President, Business Solutions
Health Action Council

Terms & Conditions

  • Registration for this event is subject to WorldatWork’s Privacy Policy.
  • To learn how to opt-out of sharing your information, please go to WorldatWork’s Privacy Policy.
  • Be sure to log on up to 15 minutes prior to the event start time.
  • The live event includes access to playback. Playback and the on-demand webinar are available two business days following the live event, and you can access them for 90 days after the live event date.