- Physician Advisor to Healthcare Innovators and EHIR member Employers- CMOD (Chief Medical Officer on Demand) About EHIRSelf-insured employers are facing increased pressure to improve the health and productivity of their employees. Finding innovative solutions to improve population health is not only difficult but time consuming. To help speed up the search process and obtain peer reviewed recommendations, we will provide a rapid pilot/prototype process to quickly test and evaluate new start-up companies in the areas of population health.Rather than meet one-on-one with startup companies we have decided to meet as a group, twice a year, and curate the best of the best startup companies. Our goal is for each employer to choose one company a year to rapidly prototype their solution and bring their findings back to the group. The biannual meeting format allows us to be incredibly efficient with our time and to learn from each other. Each member of the roundtable has the authority to green light a project, hence our goal is for rapid prototyping and deployment of innovation.

Clinical Claims Data Analytics for Employers and BrokersGetting the most from your clinical claims data platform.It’s not about the data. It’s about the strategies.Data-Driven Healthcare Strategies for Employers:"We have the clinical claims data. We're not entirely sure what to do with it."210 pages of charts and graphs is actually quite easy to produce. Identifying the handful of key findings that have an actionable solution is harder. This requires seasoned familiarity with the data set, as well as an up to date understanding of available marketplace solutions.Which solutions are applicable for a particular employer?- What are the 3-5 key takeaways from my client’s medical and pharmacy claims report?- What’s driving those key findings? How impactable are they?- What marketplace solutions might be appropriate given the findings?- What are other employers doing to address each issue?

Strategic Practice Leadership for Lockton’s Medical Cost Solutions for Self-Insured Employer Clients:- Evaluation of medical cost, digital health and precision medicine solution vendors for self-insured employers- Development of the InfoLock clinical and population health data analytics product development and services - Establish stronger ties between medical experience, workers’ compensation, and total productivity for employer clients.- Provide internal clinical and industry expertise, authority, and advocacy.- Collaboration with Lockton associates to improve the value of products and services delivered to clients.- Develop enterprise risk products and services – medical, workers’ comp, absence management, total productivity (consulting services and products).- Develop Global Wellness capabilities as we bridge between Health Risk Solutions and our Global Benefits practice.Public Spokesperson for Health Risk Solutions- Speak at client seminars, industry forums, or other engagements to promote Health Risk Solutions.- Write and publish white papers focused on innovative ways to improve health and engage people in making sustained changes to improve their health.Client/Prospect Services- Provide guidance to employer clients on ways to lower medical plan costs through managing and improving health. - Meet with our prospects and Provide marketing support both in the pre-sale and ongoing client management functions.- Make recommendations to clients to best control costs and identify the best interventions to gain improved health or lifestyle changes within their populations.- Evaluate wellness, disease management, and medical management programs globally and at the individual client levels as those programs relate to specific customer needs.-Collaborate with key medical claims payers to improve the usability of client treatment information.

Ron heads up Willis' National Practice in Health Outcomes delivering state-of-the-art solutions in medical costs and risks to self-insured employers. Dr. Leopold's role includes: oversight of health outcomes customer consultation, design of WillisMed reporting capabilities and development of go-to-market strategies and solutions for the Willis Human Capital Practice.The Willis Human Capital Practice delivers core brokerage and consulting services paired with value-added solutions to support your employee benefits program and your human capital investment.Our approach is unique: Willis recognizes employee benefits are just one tactic in a comprehensive human capital strategy. As such, we configured our model to deliver solutions in a client-centric environment. We eliminated financial hurdles that traditionally exist between client problems and advisor solutions. Our clients have access to all our resources to solve the most challenging human capital risks.

Wells Fargo Insurance Announces Health & Productivity National Practice; Names Dr. Ronald Leopold Practice Head: Acclaimed industry leader and author joins world’s fifth largest broker to lead new practice.Part of the company’s National Employee Benefits Practice, the Health & Productivity Practice will be led by industry veteran Ronald Leopold, M.D., M.B.A., M.P.H. In this role, Dr. Leopold will focus on bringing clients strategic solutions in an era of healthcare reform and changing workforce demographics. “While Wells Fargo Insurance has been promoting health and wellness for years, Ron’s arrival brings a new perspective to the business by focusing more on productivity, which has become indispensable when designing an effective and competitive health plan,” says Renner. “Dr. Leopold will also concentrate on leveraging the connection between financial well-being and health, as well as integrating absence and disability into overall health and productivity strategies. With this dedicated practice, we are elevating how we advise our clients on population health management.”The goal of the employee benefits national practice at Wells Fargo Insurance is to assist our clients in the areas of financial underwriting and insurance, health and productivity risk management, benefits communication and administration, and compliance with rules and regulations affecting health and welfare benefit plans.

Ronald S. Leopold, MD, MBA, MPH, is Vice President and National Medical Director of MetLife, The Americas. • Currently leads industry thought leadership for MetLife’s U.S. Business, focusing on health, wealth and employee benefits. • Publication of MetLife’s Annual Employee Trends Study• Frequent keynote public speaker at industry conferences, trade associations and educational events. Representative speaking topics include: • Workforce yin and yang: health and wellness, and financial wellness • What happens in the benefits space after health care reform? • The human capital window: realizing the full potential of short term disability • Generations in the workforce rebooted: post-recession perspectives on employee benefits• Represented MetLife on the Executive Board of Integrated Benefits Institute (IBI) and Disability Management Employers’ Coalition (DMEC). Served as MetLife representative to America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP).• Authored The Benefits Edge: Honing the Competitive Value of Employee Benefits, 2009.• Authored A Year in the Life of a Million American Workers, a visual almanac of absence management and disability data that provides a comprehensive picture of American workers and their health conditions, illnesses and absence patterns over a one year period, 2005.• Consultation with over thirty Fortune 500 companies regarding employee benefits experience and strategies for health and disability.• Served as Senior Practice Leader supporting team of disability consultants.• Represented private disability insurers on the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Committee on Improving the Social Security Administration’s Disability Decision Process.• Developed MetLife’s proprietary disability durations guidelines based on multi-year claims experience analysis.• Developed MetLife’s triage-based clinical claims model based on proprietary statistical classification of short and long term disability claims.

Business development and clinical management of a national workers’ compensation provider network.Feedback and training of occupational health physicians and staff based on clinical and outcomes-based performance measurements.Development of state-of-the-art workers’ compensation (pay-for-performance) physician report card.