The Great Reveal: Demystifying Healthcare Costs - The 6 Opportunities in Healthcare

SPEAKER: Carl C Schuessler DHP, DIA, GBDS

HRCI Credits:   1 SHRM and HRCI credit(s)

Summary: Target Audience: HR, CFO’s and employers

Purpose: Educate HR, CFO’s, and employers …about how to identify the obstacles to lowering healthcare costs. They will also walk away being able to identify the best-in-class High Performance Healthcare Solutions needed to impact spending patterns. The goal with clients is to identify what they want to see happen (Opportunities) and identify what flaws (Obstacles) need to be removed to accomplish these goals.

Objectives: Upon completion of this session, participants will have intermediate knowledge of the obstacles to lowering healthcare costs. They will also walk away being able to identify the opportunities that will allow them (employers) or their clients to save $$$ allowing ee’s to put more $$$ into their communities, and allows employees to save more for retirement, etc.

Speaker Bio: Carl C. Schuessler, Jr., DHP, DIA, GBDS 

Carl Schuessler is the Founder and Managing Principal of Mitigate Partners, a Risk Management, Cost Containment and Employee Benefits Consulting firm.

With more than 30 years of experience in benefits consulting and financial services, Carl is a pioneer in the fiduciary approach to benefits advisory services and the developer of the proprietary FairCo$t Health Plan, an innovative plan design seamlessly integrated with a High-Performance Healthcare Solutions platform that provides best-in-class benefits at substantially lower costs while improving clinical and financial outcomes for health plans and their members.  Carl is also a  founding Health Rosetta Charter Certified Advisor and a highly accomplished speaker and author.

Some of Carl's credentials include:

• Charter Member of Certified Benefits Advisor Program, The Health Rosetta Institute
• DHP - Disability Healthcare Professional
• DIA - Disability Income Associate
• GBDS - Group Benefits Disability Specialist
• B.B.A. - Risk Management, Insurance and Estate Management University of Georgia

A native of Macon, Georgia, Carl moved to Atlanta in 1989 and resides there with his wife, Missy and their three children, Mary May (20), Carl III (19) and Hattie (16). He enjoys children’s activities (coached 43 of his children’s teams), fly fishing, golfing, hiking, and hunting.

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