Transition Tactics and Strategies for Consumer-Directed Plans
Bruce Elliott will discuss his experiences introducing a health savings account (HSA) and health reimbursement arrangement (HRA) to employees. You will learn about tactics and strategies you can use to avoid the ACA excise tax on Cadillac Plans coming in 2018, as well as other compliance issues, communication/education challenges, and cost-management effects.This presentation will help you transition a traditional PPO plan to a CDHP while maintaining comparable coverage through implementation of Health Reimbursement Arrangement and employer funded Health Savings Accounts.
Bruce Elliott
Bruce Elliott is Manager of Compensation and Benefits for SHRM. Having held senior C&B roles at the director and VP level, Mr. Elliott came to SHRM with a wealth of domestic and international experience, that includes a 4 year assignment to the United Kingdom. Mr. Elliott’s 20+ year career in Compensation and Benefits has focused on developing, implementing and managing domestic and international compensation and benefit programs for a number of publically listed companies including EADS, North America, Experian, Western Union/First Data Corporation, Credit Suisse First Boston, UBS and Standard and Poors/McGraw-Hill.
He has a B.S in Business and Psychology from Boston College, a Masters in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Springfield College and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at George Washington University. He also holds CCP and CBP Certifications.