2011 FORUM East Sponsors & Exhibitors

CIGNA Corporation serves millions of people worldwide through medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy, vision, life, accident and disability benefit plans and insurance. Known as a health and related benefits company, our involvement with customers goes deeper than handling insurance claims. Employers look to us for the expertise, services and tools that help improve the health and well-being of their employees. Our customers seek our guidance in making informed health care decisions. Our wide range of programs and resources make it possible for companies to lower their costs, for individuals and families to live healthier, more secure lives.

FIS Healthcare Payment Solutions is transforming the healthcare payments industry by accelerating the exchange of information and funds between patients, payers, providers and financial institutions. Forging new connections between payment and data systems to quicken the claims process, FIS expedites benefits eligibility verification, claims substantiation, medical remittance processing, and payment and explanation of benefit distribution. With Web-enabled tools, an HSA platform, multi-purse benefit debit cards and combo eligibility/payment cards, FIS enables integrated consumer benefit account management of HSA, FSA, HRA, and dependent care and transportation accounts.

Verisk Health, a subsidiary of Verisk Analytics, leverages healthcare data to help businesses and governments understand their medical and financial risk for the purpose of managing costs and clinical outcomes more effectively. Through the combination of leading predictive science, a comprehensive evidence-based clinical engine, and advanced technology, we have created one of the most extensive independent risk-assessment and decision-analytics platforms in the healthcare industry. Our primary focus is to identify actionable strategies for managing healthcare costs and quality at both the individual and population levels. We consistently research, evaluate, and invest in our business to ensure that we remain leaders in our industry and provide the most efficient and effective solution for our clients.

As a leader in the voluntary insurance market, Aflac helps employers provide a safety net to their employees. From accident and disability, to critical illness, our policies complement existing benefits at no direct cost to the business. Make your benefits plan more attractive by adding Aflac.

InteliSpend Prepaid Solutions, LLC is a program manager for the MasterCard® Wellness Prepaid Card, created especially as a wellness incentive. InteliSpend provides businesses with prepaid solutions including stored-value cards, online reward management technology and program management. In addition to wellness programs, its products address a broad array of applications, such as employee reward and recognition, sales incentives, expense management and consumer promotions. Cards issued by MetaBankTM pursuant to license by MasterCard International Incorporated.

As a leading global payments company, MasterCard Worldwide prides itself on being at the heart of commerce, helping to make life easier and more efficient for everyone, everywhere. MasterCard serves as a franchisor, processor and advisor to the payments industry, and makes commerce happen by providing a critical economic link among financial institutions, governments, businesses, merchants, and cardholders worldwide.

DataPath, founded in 1984, is a management-owned, privately held company based in Little Rock, Arkansas, that produces software solutions for administering employee benefit plans. Our clients include employers, third party administrators, benefit consultants, Plan Service Providers, banks, certified public accountants, insurance companies, and insurance agencies. DataPath is determined to provide flexible solutions to allow its clients to market, propose, install, administer, test, and report employee benefit plans.

Dynamic Benefit Systems represents the most significant change in how benefits are presented, sold, and purchased in the CDHC marketplace today. DBS is the only tool designed to allow users to perform real time analysis of fully insured CDHC plan designs and instantly see how changes impact both employers and employees. Plan data can then be integrated into customized communication pieces to assist employees in making informed decisions, helping to increase adoption rates in CDHC plans.

Liazon was founded in 2007 to tackle the myriad problems inherent in employee benefits for small and mid-sized employers. Liazon’s retail employee benefits solutions give employers a cost-saving defined contribution strategy for all benefits. Liazon’s Benefits Exchange™ is the online store where employees find, learn about and purchase health care and other insurance products.

RedBrick Health is a health technology and services company that drives sustained engagement in health improvement programs through constant innovation and deep consumer insight. The company’s health engagement platform blends personalized experiences, social networking tools and rewards that link individual financing to healthy behaviors. RedBrick serves large employers and strategic distribution partners.

ConnectYourCare provides a leading CDH platform for employers. The ConnectYourCare solution fully integrates with employer clients by providing a transparent, seamless employee experience. ConnectYourCare’s stewardship model utilizes behavioral economics optimizing every employee’s CDH experience. ConnectYourCare was proudly named the leader in CDH solutions by Forrester, an independent market research firm.

Avoid rising healthcare costs with affordable VSP Vision Care plans that employees love. VSP Preferred Providers can detect signs of costly, chronic conditions through the eyes before symptoms emerge. For every $1 invested in VSP exam services, employers see a two-year return of $1.27.

TSYS Healthcare provides end-to-end strategic payment solutions for consumer directed healthcare. We partner with benefits administrators, financial institutions, health plans and software providers to navigate all aspects of HSAs, HRAs, FSAs, cash reimbursements and lines of credit, rewards and claim payments. TSYS Healthcare cards offer participants the security they expect along with the ability to conveniently access funds from multiple accounts and manage their benefits payments with simplified single-card access. Clients and partners benefit from simplified processes, reduced paperwork and cost savings that contribute to improved return on investment.

Pioneers in the field of photochromic technology, Transitions Optical offers dynamic, intuitive and innovative eyewear solutions designed to quickly adjust and adapt in changing light to help protect from the sun’s rays and enhance the vision of eyeglass wearers.

PayFlex® is leading the way in account-based health plan technology and innovation. HealthHub, powered by PayFlex®, combines benefits administration with wellness solutions to educate, engage and empower employees to improve their health and financial wellbeing. Incentive-based wellness programs integrated with account-based health administration sets PayFlex® apart in the consumer-directed marketplace.

Based in Charlotte, NC, Empowered Benefits, is a leader in the development and implementation of online Ben Admin solutions for enrollment, management and communications of employee benefits. The 10-year-old companys products allow employers and employees to easily access and understand benefits offerings while reducing errors and administrative costs.

Lighthouse1 and its partners serve more than 2.5 million consumers, making Lighthouse1 the nation’s largest web-based healthcare solution that manages HSAs, HRAs, FSAs, and Transit Plans. It is the only solution available today that meets more than 1,100 unique benefit plan designs, simplifies the user experience, and satisfies workflow management needs of administration partners, employers, and consumers.

EyeMed Vision Care is the leading vision benefits company in the country with over 140 million members and 6,300+ clients. We offer cost-effective programs promoting vision wellness and overall member value. Our network mirrors member preferences by delivering a mix of independent providers and the nations leading optical retailers.

Delta Dental is an industry leader with over 50 years of dedication to providing dental benefits and to improving oral health. We provide coverage for over 51 million people in the United States, proudly offering substantial cost management savings, extensive dentist choice and a world-class approach to service.

Finally a “POSITIVE” option that employees can benefit from without being sick or dying! This low cost benefit generates a huge return in employee wellness and morale. Every $1 a company saves from skipped vacations can cost the company $7 in lost productivity. We all know healthcare costs increase from burned out employees – this new and unique benefit can help improve employee productivity, cut down on stress-related illness and will improve employee morale thus assisting in lowering healthcare costs. This option with Wellness Vacations compliments the current health plan and can be offered as fringe benefit, incentive benefit, or voluntary benefit.

Tango Health provides patent-pending software and services for employers and employees to easily manage Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and save the tax dollars they deserve. This year, employers and employees will overpay $6billion in taxes due to under-use of HSAs-Tango Health helps maximize HSA usage and maximize savings.

Insight Benefits Group, LLC, is a national consulting and marketing firm serving professional practices, corporations, governments, labor organizations and not-for-profit groups throughout the country. Through the design, development and implementation of employee benefit, risk management and endowment solutions, IBG assists its clients in solving critical issues affecting their futures.

Envision Pharmaceutical Services, Inc is a full service pharmacy benefits management company. Our business model is based on transparency and full disclosure, guaranteeing 100% pass through pricing of all pharmaceutical rebates and any other fees/discounts at the point-of -sale. Additionally, we offer solutions for your retirees in terms of Medicare Part D and Employer Group Waiver Plans.

Experts in the Field of Member/Consumer Adoption gBehavior private labels and customizes solutions to meet the specific wellness needs of our clients. The Rewards for Wellness Program is “turn key”, where gBehavior handles all program administration to include: monthly, quarterly and annual program tracking, reporting, and communication. Our behavior change methodology has worked in multiple industries with phenomenal results. For years, this methodology has worked in safety with reducing accident frequency 40 – 60% in just a few years. gBehavior has now taken this methodology into the wellness arena and are experiencing the same kind of results with health plans and employers.

Acclaris delivers financial technology and services that power and simplify the complex administration of HSAs, HRAs, FSAs and much more for HR outsourcers, benefits administrators, financial institutions and health plans. Acclaris offers clients an innovative approach to faster, more profitable growth, greater agility and higher member satisfaction.

Consumer Health Technologies’ BenefitSpan platform is a comprehensive Consumer Directed Healthcare (CDH) administration system that provides our TPA and Payer customers the flexibility for to: Gain a competitive advantage with integrated value-added services and client specific branding. Improve member satisfaction and engagement with self-service tools in the member portal for investment, wellness and member advocacy. To increase revenues with integrated debit cards and the innovative HealthMall offering.

America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) is a national association representing nearly 1,300 member companies providing health insurance coverage to more than 200 million Americans.

Employers and insurers are shifting their attention to value-based insurance design and its associated cost-sharing principles. While these plans have generally been used to lower cost-sharing for highly effective prescription drugs, the same strategies may be applied to non-drug services. In the case of low back pain, a leading ailment in the US, employers and health plans will find that the utilization of chiropractic care will lead to cost-savings and improved quality of life. This session will expand on the value-based approach for non-evasive treatments, using evidence based assessments to support decision-making at the employer, health plan and individual levels. Foundation for Chiropractic Progress

Allstate Benefits (AB) is the #2 benefits provider in the industry today. AB offers the broadest group and individual product portfolio in the industry, with a wide range of quality and competitively priced life, health, disability, vision and dental products. As one of the largest U.S. distributors of workplace insurance, AB has more than 31,000 active workplace employer accounts with more than 2.5 million worksite policy and certificate holders.

Bravo Wellness provides compliance expertise and technology to support results-based wellness initiatives. Our service can be customized, from coordinating all of the elements or handling certain components, such as the screening or appeals process. We arrange biometric screenings, HRA and health coaching through strategic partners. Most clients experience 97% participation and significant ROI in the first year.

change:healthcare (C:H) is on a mission to arm employees with the weapons necessary to reverse the escalating upward trend of U.S. healthcare costs. As an organization we believe that transforming healthcare users into healthcare buyers is the best opportunity the United States has to slow the inflationary cost spiral and match care with need. Employers and their employees bear the brunt of runaway cost. Imagine buying something really expensive without the luxury of knowing the actual price? Healthcare consumerism requires knowing the cost of what you are buying today or in the future. C:H provides employees with actionable cost information that is relevant to their health plan, market and most common healthcare purchases. Employees in a high deductible plan deserve to know the cost of healthcare before they receive an EOB.

If you want to help your Employees grow their HSA’s faster and with ease, My HSA Rewards is smart and simple because it puts real cash into their HSA from the purchases they make every day.

Health Perx is a suite of services with 3 core products- 1) Unlimited doctor appointments by phone —24/7/365, 2) Pharmacy Savings Card for discounted pharmaceuticals, and 3) discount networks for Dental, Vision, Hearing, Laboratory Tests and more. Starting at $16/month/family, anyone can benefit, whether you are employed or not!

Protocol Driven Healthcare, Inc. (PDHI) is a healthcare technology company that licenses the ConXus® health improvement platform for the delivery of workplace wellness programs. The ConXus Platform is used by wellness providers servicing many end clients and large employers delivering comprehensive wellness programs with coaching. ConXus modules can be deployed in multiple configurations to match client service levels, with additional localization for each end-client.

Ceridian is a global business services company that provides a variety of human resource solutions. From benefits to payroll services, we help organizations maximize their human, financial and technology resources. Whether an organization’s goals are to save money or improve productivity, Ceridian provides the insights and solutions that ensure success.