Cost containment pressure has never been higher, and CFOs want proof fast. In this fireside chat, Candace Jodice, former VP of Benefits at CVS Health, shares hard-won lessons from leading benefits through the CVS-Aetna acquisition and a full HDHP replacement that reshaped healthcare consumerism companywide. She breaks down why most programs need two plan-year cycles to prove ROI, how to negotiate vendor contracts that protect your team, and why point solutions keep failing employees. Walk away with practical tactics for cutting through complexity, strengthening your fiduciary stance, and building a benefits strategy that actually holds up under scrutiny.
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Candace Jodice
Candace Jodice spent more than 25 years running benefits at CVS Health, leading eight post-merger harmonizations and overseeing a program covering 300,000+ employees with a budget exceeding $3B annually. She led the CVS-Aetna benefits redesign, unifying programs for the full workforce within two years of deal close, and designed a full replacement HDHP that cut costs while protecting health outcomes and lower-wage employees through tools like HSA on demand and salary-based contributions. At Sword Health, she now advises benefits leaders as a peer who has made these same calls herself.
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Jeannette Abbott
Jeannette Abbott has spent her career facilitating the peer conversations where benefits leaders work through what they are actually seeing. Before Sword Health, she led one of the largest employer communities in the country, running executive roundtables and advisory boards for benefits leaders managing millions of covered lives and billions in healthcare spend. At Sword, she leads Ecosystem Relationships and facilitates the Customer Advisory Board and Voice of the Employer program, keeping Sword's work grounded in the real pressures shaping benefits strategy today.
لقد وافقت شهادة SHRM على هذه الندوة عبر الإنترنت للحصول على شهادة PDC واحدة من أجل إعادة اعتمادSHRM أو SHRM. سيتم توفير رمز البرنامج في نهاية الندوة عبر الإنترنت.