Overview
Workforce behavioral health concerns have always been present in a workplace environment. However, many of these behavioral healthcare issues are being amplified by an evolving multi-generational workforce, plan design changes, rising medical plan costs and the opioid epidemic – just to name a few. In our recent 10-Minute Survey on Behavioral Health Care, more than two-thirds of our respondents said access to outpatient behavioral health care was lacking. Today, many employers are starting to take action on their own and see an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) as a vital partner to address the growing interest in behavioral health care.

Join us on August 6th as Mercer experts walk us through the survey results and further the discussion around some revealing key trends that include work-related stress, substance abuse and social determinants of health. While some of the results varied by size of organization, important and consistent themes merit a more robust discussion along with suggested strategies for action.

Discussion Topics:
  • Methods used in identifying and addressing behavioral health care issues in the workforce
  • Impact of behavioral health issues on medical plan cost and productivity
  • Effectiveness of behavioral health programs and steps for improvement
  • Understanding the role of an effective Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Substance abuse trends in the workforce and how to take action
Webinar Details
Tuesday, August 6
12:00 p.m. ET

Who Should Attend
Chief Human Resource Officers, HR employees, benefit managers and anyone who participates in the design or decision making for health programs and benefit packages.

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  • A Workplace For Me: Personalization of the employee experience


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    Even with advances in technology that facilitate both collection and analysis of large quantities of data, companies around the world are making slow progress in using analytics to inform human capital decisions. Very few are able to translate data into predictive insights, and nearly 1 in 5 are generating only basic descriptive reporting and historical trend analyses.


Your Speakers:
  • Sandra Kuhn, MSW, Partner 
    MSW, Partner, Mercer

  • Alisa Trugerman
    Ph.D., Principal, Mercer

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The good news from this year’s survey: employers expect to hold cost growth to a moderate 4% in 2019. The bad news: that’s faster growth than we’ve seen over the past couple of years, and the cost of benefits is still outpacing inflation and workers’ earnings growth.

Prescription drugs—specialty drugs in particular—remain a top cost driver and managing high-cost claims is again the number-one priority for employers. At the same time, in a tight labor market, offering an attractive benefit program is more important than ever.

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