We’re helping public sector plan sponsors make sense of the options available when it comes to their retiree population’s health care benefits, from Group Medicare Advantage Plans to individual Medicare and Pre-Medicare marketplaces —also known as exchanges— to health reimbursement arrangements, and how they can manage change and help retirees navigate choice.
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Marianne Steger
Former Director of Public Sector Strategy, Via Benefits by WTW
Marianne Steger is on a mission to save retiree healthcare! She’s so devoted to the mission that she came out of retirement to become the director of public sector strategy for WTW. Previously, Marianne was the director of healthcare for the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS), where she ran the healthcare program for nearly a quarter of a million retirees and helped them transition from the OPERS group plan to the individual Medicare marketplace. With more than 35 years of experience in health plan strategy and design, employee benefits, labor relations, and public policy, Marianne worked with public sector plan sponsors every day to help them preserve retiree healthcare benefits.
Episode 16:
Two-time retiree failure
15:10
Episode 15:
Medicare when turning 65
12:53
Episode 14:
Breaking down the Healthcare Enhancement for Local Public Safety (HELPS) law
8:51
Episode 13:
How the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) reduces healthcare costs
8:57
Episode 12:
Demystifying OPEB
11:59
Episode 11:
The Retired World
11:11
Episode 10:
Making Part D plans affordable
11:30
Episode 9:
Which Medicare plans are best for retirees?
14:29
Episode 8:
Pre-Medicare retiree healthcare solution
11:07
Episode 7:
The ABCs of Medicare
13:09
Episode 6:
Who’s to complain?
08:09
Episode 5:
How the city of Memphis reduced its OPEB liabilities
10:52
Episode 4:
Built to last?
09:47
Episode 3:
How to preserve retiree healthcare
10:00
Episode 2:
Searching for sustainability
10:06
Episode 1:
The great trade-off
10:47