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Marybeth Gray

Senior Vice President Health & Welfare Consulting
Marsh & McLennan Agency
Marybeth has spent more than 25 years in the employee benefits field as an advocate working to help employers put healthcare within reach of every employee and has continually reduced costs for employers and their employees. Marybeth currently serves as a Senior Vice President of Health and Welfare Consulting with Trion, a Marsh & McLennan Agency firm supervising the overall account management for her clients. Her strategic approach to every case coupled with her vast knowledge of the industry contribute to the remarkable success she has had saving money for her clients while enhancing the quality of healthcare for their employees. Marybeth’s clients know she is available to them anytime and has a team of experts standing by to manage their healthcare program. Together with her team, Marybeth has saved clients millions of dollars with an approach that not only breaks down current actions, but helps employers understand what’s coming next. She is an expert at analyzing companies’ health care costs and benefit plans, and skilled at identifying financial opportunities and assisting with strategic planning, particularly with large, self-insured clients. Formerly a Vice President with AON Consulting, Marybeth specialized in utilization and data management to understand key cost drivers. She is an expert in developing and redesigning pharmacy programs and understanding the cost drivers within these programs as well. As a National Account Manager with Aetna Inc., Marybeth was responsible for overall account management from a financial and operations perspective for clients with more than 10,000 employees operating in multiple locations. She detailed plan design opportunities for clients and monitored the ongoing financial implications to those plans. She also served on the Aetna Presidents Roundtable Committee, fostering communications between clients and the president’s office regarding suggested changes that would improve Aetna’s operational procedures. Recently she was named EBN’s 2017 Most Influential Women in Benefit Advising: 30 leaders whose unique client management strategies, innovative data manipulation and other industry-leading skills are transforming the field.

SESSIONS

Breakout # 4: Healthcare Changes in 2022 and Beyond – New-to-Market Drugs In Your Benefits Plans Will Have Price Tags of + $2-3M! What’s Your Strategy? Speaker

Healthcare Changes Family Businesses Need to Know. As business owners, you know that healthcare costs are the second largest business expense.  Offering attractive and affordable medical benefits is crucial to recruiting and maintaining a talented workforce.   The reality is, 90% of your healthcare costs are driven by 10% or less of your covered population.  Let’s make sense of this together!  In this session, expert – Marybeth Gray – will help you understand the next big cost drivers for your medical benefits plans in 2022 and beyond, and discuss proven strategies on how to prepare for them.  Planning for 2022 and the future doesn’t have to be difficult – We have the Solution!