Wellness Regs Crash Course: How the New Reform Rules Will Power Wellness Incentive Programs

Speakers

Chip Kerby is an attorney at Liberté Group LLC. His practice focuses on ERISA health and welfare benefit plans, including the following areas of emphasis: compliance issues involving ERISA and other federal laws; contract negotiations with vendors; mitigation of potential fiduciary liability; assistance with IRS, DOL and CMS audits; and federal and state initiatives to reform the nation’s health care system. Chip recently served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center and is a fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia. Chip’s legal career spans more than 30 years in Washington, D.C., where he has worked as a partner with McDermott, Will & Emery; as a principal in Mercer’s Washington Resource Group; as a senior manager at PriceWaterhouse; as an associate at Miller & Chevalier; and as assistant branch chief and attorney-advisor in the chief counsel’s office of the IRS. He has a J.D. degree cum laude from Washington and Lee University School of Law and an LL.M. degree from Georgetown University Law Center.

L.J. (Mac) McCarthy is president of McCarthy Actuarial Consulting, combining the discipline of actuarial science with extensive experience and a reputation for integrity to help employers, health plans and researchers find innovative solutions to health and welfare issues. He has more than 35 years of health and welfare actuarial experience, with more than 25 years advising employers and plans on the development and financial management of innovative programs. Since 2008, much of his focus has been on U.S. health care reform, as it is expressed in legislation as well as more fundamental reform. Beyond that, Mac’s specialties include wellness and disease management programs, consumer-driven health care, multi-option benefit programs, post-retirement medical and disability plans. Mac sits on the Conference of Consulting Actuaries’ Board of Directors, chairs the CCA’s Healthcare Reform Steering Committee and is a member of a number of the American Academy of Actuaries’ workgroups addressing various aspects of federal health care reform. Mac is a regular speaker at national actuarial meetings as well as other forums. Before founding McCarthy Actuarial Consulting, Mac was a principal and national resource at Mercer Health & Benefits. Before that he held a variety of group actuarial and administration positions at two insurance companies. Mac received a B.S. in mathematics from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries, a fellow of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

Michelle Mudge-Riley is a physician, senior consultant and associate with McCarthy Actuarial Consulting. Michelle has experience with corporate wellness within small, mid-size and large employer groups as well as with regional employee benefit brokerage and consulting firms. She assists with prevention, wellness and health promotion strategies. Specifically, she helps organizations with overall wellness strategy, particularly in defining and measuring wellness to provide tangible evidence of return on investment through integration of business and clinical data. Michelle received her medical degree from Des Moines University Osteopathic Medical School and her M.H.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). She completed a medical internship at VCU Hospital System and a business residency under the CEO of the same hospital system.

Moderator: Patrick Connole, editor of Health Plan Week

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