Health Care Options for Small Business Topics

The Louisiana Department of Insurance’s Scott Kipper, Deputy Commissioner, Office of Health Insurance, will serve as moderator of the seminar.

• Insurance 101 n Discussing the importance of offering a health insurance benefit to employees and ways that small businesses may be able to afford it.

• Overview of the small group insurance market; current trends n Mike Manes, Square One Consulting

• How to find affordable products in the market; working with a broker and asking your broker the right questions n Gretchen Mettler, HUB International Gulf South Limited

• Getting into the system n one small business owner’s story n Janice Chiasson, Cracker Barrel Stores, Baton Rouge

• Consumer-Directed Health Care n Discussing the continuing movement toward consumer-directed health care and how small business owners may be able to take advantage of it.

• What is consumer-directed health care n Brian Keller, Director of Individual Sales and Marketing, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana

• The tax and financial effects of health savings accounts n Lance Kinchen, CPA and Partner in the law firm of Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, LL