Join us for our October Benefits Breakfast Meeting!
Topic: State of Healthcare & Opportunities for Your Company
1. The Current Healthcare Landscape
Overview of national and regional healthcare trends, including rising costs, regulatory shifts, and the impact of the current landscape on employer-sponsored plans.
2. Cost Drivers in Employer Health Plans
Breakdown of what’s really driving premium increases—pharmacy costs, chronic conditions, specialty care, and utilization trends—and how these affect mid-sized employers.
3. Regulatory & Compliance Updates
Key updates on ACA, transparency rules, mental health parity, and what HR leaders need to know to stay compliant and avoid penalties.
4. Opportunities to Reduce Costs Without Cutting Benefits
Strategies like self-funding, level-funding, direct primary care, and pharmacy carve-outs. Real-world examples of companies saving money while improving employee satisfaction.
5. The Role of Data & Analytics
How mid-market employers can use claims data, benchmarking, and predictive analytics to make smarter benefits decisions.
6. Employee Experience & Retention Through Better Benefits
How benefits design impacts recruitment and retention. Trends in mental health, virtual care, and voluntary benefits that resonate with today’s workforce.
Meet Our Speaker
Justin Futrell, TrueNorth Companies
Personally and professionally, Justin is on the quest to impact millions of lives. Professionally, as a Self-Funded Benefits Advisor at TrueNorth Companies where he serves as the healthcare consultant serving middle market companies. Personally, through his annual fundraisers for clean water that occur each November.
Locally, in Denver, CO he serves as the co-chair of Blood Cancer United, teaching kids how to fundraise for causes they are passionate about.
Justin has been recognized nationally as one of the “Faces of Change” in the healthcare industry, highlighted for his passion to help companies eliminate the risk of wasting money to insurance companies, hospitals and Big Pharma.
He is a lifelong learner, recently receiving his Master’s in Healthcare Innovation and enjoys playing volleyball, hiking and hitting the slopes!
