October 3, 2007 - DoubleTree Hotel - Westboro, MA

 
PROGRAM SCHEDULE & DESCRIPTIONS

MassAHU's 5th Annual Statewide Conference and Trade Fair presents...

  7:30 am

Registration
 

7:30 am - 8:45 am

Breakfast with Exhibitors
Join us for a delicious continental breakfast compliments of our generous company partner....Number One Insurance Agency, Inc.
 

7:45 am - 8:45 am

  • S125 Federal Regulations Update: Overview of the Latest Rules Impacting your Clients' Cafeteria Plans  (pending 1 MA CE approval)
    Presenter: Nancy Dantzman, VP Sales with eflexgroup

  • Health Care Reform The BasicsĀ  Getting a Group Started? Or
    Just need a Refresher?
    (pending 1 MA CE approval)
    Presenter: Jeff Rich, Northeast Business Trust
 

8:00 am - 1:00 pm

Trade Show is OPEN! See who will be exhibiting...
 

9:00 am - 9:10 am

Opening Remarks
Jean Russell, MassAHU President
 

9:10 am - 9:45 am

Keynote Speaker
Nonnie Burnes, Commissioner, MA Division of Insurance
Sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

 
 

9:45 am - 10:30 am

Network with Exhibitors
 

10:30 am - 11:30 am

  • Limited Medical Plans - An Alternative for the Working Uninsured (pending 1 MA CE approval)
    Presenter: Mitchell Besvinick, President of InnoBenefits

    Sponsored by Transamerica Worksite Marketing

  • Long Term Care Insurance.....Protect Your Assets (1 MA CE approved)
    Presenter: Tobe Gerard, CLTC, MBA, MLS
    This one hour session will walk you through how long term care insurance (LTCi) is being sold in the worksite today -- with the focus not on "group" LTCi but on what we refer to as "multi-life" LTCi -- the "individual" policies which have employer discounts and "simplified" underwriting. Get up to speed now so someone else isn't talking to your clients about this opportunity.

 

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Network with Exhibitors
 

12:00 Noon - 1:30 pm

Luncheon with Guest Speaker, Sharon Alt, President of Alt Benefit Consultants, Inc., and the host of a nationally syndicated radio show "Voice of America".
Sponsored by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
 

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

  • The Massachusetts Section125 Plan: The Right Way (pending 1 MA CE approval)
    Presenters: Nancy Dantzman, VP Sales with eflexgroup and Todd Martin, Legal Counsel, with eflexgroup
    Sponsored by ikaSystems

  • All's Well that Starts Well: Practical and Legal Issues with Wellness Programs   (pending 1 MA CE approval)
    Presenter: Karen Kirkpatrick with Infinisource
 

2:30 pm -  3:15 pm

Carrier's Perspective: "Where Are We Going?"
Join us for a panel discussion: Jonathan Chines, Manager of Corporate Strategies with Tufts Health Plans, Martha Murphy, Director of Sales with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Beth Helenius, AVP of Retention and Consumer Sales with Fallon Community Health Plans and Meghan Lytton, Consumer Markets Business Leader with BCBS of Massachusetts will be among those addressing the transformations taking place in the Carriers' world.
Sponsored by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

 

Download, print, complete and mail or fax to:
MassAHU, 137 Pennsylvania Avenue, Framingham, MA 01701
Fax: (508) 628-5444

If you have any questions, please contact Kate Bardsley, Association Manager, at (508) 663-0239 or by email at kbardsley@massahu.org.

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