When It Comes to Your Benefits Plan, Small Changes Can Mean Huge Savings.
Do you know that introducing biosimilars onto your drug plan can result in cost savings, which can then be reinvested back into your plan?
Join Uchenwa Genus, Senior Director of Drug Plan Solutions with the Health Solutions Team at Shoppers Drug Mart, as she explains the differences between originator biologics and biosimilar drugs and how plan administrators can get the greatest value from their plans.
Uchenwa shares how organizations can see significant savings by prioritizing biosimilars on their drug plan formulary. It all comes down to helping plan administrators pick the right drug, for the right plan member, at the right cost, at the right time.
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Group Benefits in a Post-Pandemic World
Register now!Our Group Benefits Advisor Roadshow returns to a city near you this fall. Take advantage of this opportunity to: - Learn about the forces shaping our industry;
- Network with your peers; and
- Earn CE credits.
Agenda
A New Era of Drug Inflation? More Risks . . . More Opportunities
A “perfect storm” of drug trends is unfolding, and every major overall drug trend variable is accelerating. This session will focus on practical and actionable insights, illustrate several “low hanging fruit” opportunities, and support our advisor partners in assisting plan sponsors to navigate drug risk volatility.
Speaker: Martin Chung, Assistant Vice President, Strategic Health Management, Equitable Life
What is Normal? Disability Management in a Post-Pandemic World*
The last two years have brought profound changes in the workplace. Those changes have had a significant impact on the nature of disability and how it is managed. This presentation will look at the new age of disability management. What's the same? What's different? And how can advisors help their clients navigate this new "normal"?
Speaker: Maureen Long, Group Claims, Disability and Administration Vice-President, Equitable Life
Tools for Building an Effective Employee Mental Health Program
The pandemic had a profound impact on Canadians’ mental health, and employers are looking for ways to support their employees. This presentation will look at some of the tools and resources employers can include in their workplace mental health program. The presentation will focus on Online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (iCBT) – what it is, how it works, the clinical evidence behind it, and how it can help employees struggling with anxiety, depression and other mental health issues.
Speaker: Homewood Health
* The Vancouver Roadshow at the Delta Burnaby will feature a different presentation and speaker, as this topic was presented during our June Forum. See registration page for session details.
Register
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Infinity Convention Centre
Delta Hotels London Armouries
DoubleTree By Hilton Kitchener
The Thornhill Golf Club
Oakville Conference Centre
The sessions start at 8:30 am and run until 11:30 am. Breakfast is served beginning at 7:45 am.
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BENEFIT ISSUES TACKLED
Benefits and Pensions Monitor Meetings & Events’ ‘The Future of Benefits’ will tackle issues from obesity to disability management. Nicole Ardiel, an employee benefit advisor and workplace obesity advocate, will ‘Rethink Obesity: Why It Should Matter for Your Workplace.’ She will discuss how obesity is a chronic complex disease and how it can impact the health of employees and businesses. ‘Disrupting the status quo to transform employee benefit programs’ is the focus of a discussion with Adam Kelly, executive vice-president and chief commercial officer at CloudMD. He will explain how a connected care model can benefit employers and employees and provide an understanding of a stepped approach to mental health and chronic conditions in the workplace. Rebecca Smith, director of group life and disability services at Medavie Blue Cross, will examine ‘Return to Health, Return to Work: A Focused Approach to Disability Management.’ She will provide a focused approach to disability management, including a look at some of the tools and solutions available to support employees while they remain at work. It takes place October 13.
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PHARMACY PRACTICE FUTURE DISCUSSED
CPBI Pacific will discuss the ‘Future of Pharmacy Practice: the pharmacist’s role in enhancing the health of your employees.’ Deloitte’s George Van Antwerp, pharmacy of the future leader, and Greg Myers, specialist master consultant, will look into the future role of the pharmacist and how technology and artificial intelligence can enhance the future pharmacist to deliver better healthcare. It takes place October 13. Information is at https://www.cpbi-icra.ca/Events/Details/Pacific/2022/10-13-Future-of-Pharmacy-Practice-the __________________________________________________________
Tuesday, October 18, 2022 10 a.m. (ET) / 11 a.m. (AT)
Did you know? 72% of working Canadians employed by a small business would leave their current jobs for one that offers a health benefit package— something they don’t have in their current workplace. That’s a key finding of a survey recently commissioned by Medavie Blue Cross to take the pulse of small business employees and their employers on the relationship between health benefits and workplace wellbeing.
Join us for a special webinar when we share results of our research plus enhancements we have made to our Benefits for Small Business product. Get in the know and grow your business by discovering how you can help small businesses (2-10 employees) meet their objectives with an affordable, flexible and sustainable solution that helps build healthy, productive workplaces.
Not able to attend? Register anyway and we’ll send you a recording of the webinar to watch later on-demand.
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The 2022 Healthy Outcomes Conference is an in-person event in Toronto on Oct. 17-18 intended for employers to exchange ideas, best practices and tools for achieving improved employee health outcomes and enhanced organizational performance.
The event will include several panels featuring leading employers and industry thought leaders discussing the trends and topics that matter most today. The winners of the 2022 Workplace Benefits Awards will also be announced throughout the day. We hope you will join us.
KEYNOTE SESSION:
Linda Duxbury - TORN BETWEEN WANT AND REALITY: HYBRID WORK AND WORK-LIFE BALANCE
More than two years after many employees started working from their homes, both employers and employees are talking about how they want to work post-pandemic. However, few are factoring work-life boundary preferences into the discussion. Research in this area has shown employees use two different approaches — segmentation and integration — when attempting to balance work and family. This session will use data from the 2020-23 Employee Wellbeing in Times of COVID-19 study to review the relationship between boundary management preferences, work-life balance and employee well-being, outlining the implications for employers and employees as they seek a balance between what they want and what’s actually best for them.
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Save the date for this 10th Anniversary Edition of the World-famous Canada Sales Congress
This years’ CSC will be an in-person event on Wednesday, October 26, 2022, at the Toronto Congress Centre.For this special 10th anniversary edition of the CSC, we will feature some of the top speakers from previous Canada Sales Congress events, along with inspiring first-time speakers!
This “best of the past and best of the future” approach will be showcased under the theme All-Stars and Rising Stars.Get the ideas that made these top advisors stars so you can be one too.
Discover how to “Aim for the moon so if you miss you still end up among the stars”!
Mark October 26 in your calendar:
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DRUG PLAN MANAGEMENT EXAMINED
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CONFERENCE EXAMINES BENEFITS
The 2022 International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans’ ‘55th Annual Canadian Employee Benefits Conference’ will look at topics such as putting risk analysis to good effect, funding benefit plans properly, and the aging workforce and its impact on benefit plans. Speakers include Hugh Wright, a partner at Miller Thomson; Karen DeBortoli, a principal at Buck Canada HR Services; and Judy Plotkin, vice-president of health solutions at People Corporation. It takes place November 20 to 23 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Benefits Canada’s Face to Face Drug Plan Management Forum has been running for over 17 years and is the industry’s most popular drug benefits conference.
December 6, 2022 - Sheraton Centre Toronto
This year, attendees can look forward to being back in-person and face to face! Join us to learn about fresh drug plan design insights, including a new drug launch panel and a full day of educational sessions presented by industry experts.
