Strategic Benefit Services To Reveal How They Helped An Automotive Supplier Reduce Its 2005 Healthcare Costs By 26%

ROCHESTER, Mich., May 24, 2005 -- Don Jones, Vice President of Human Resources for Wagon Engineering, will be the featured speaker at the breakfast seminar, Consumer-Driven Healthcare is a Culture - Not a Product, sponsored by Strategic Benefit Services on June 7, 2005. Strategic Benefit Services plans to unveil at the event the innovative methodologies and technology solutions they use to help organizations like Wagon Engineering significantly reduce healthcare costs, maintain benefit levels and gain employee support of consumer-driven healthcare plans.

"In less than three months, Strategic Benefit Services designed an effective employee benefits plan that reduced our costs by $1200 per employee annually," says Don Jones, Vice President of Human Resources at Wagon Engineering, a leading automotive design and build company in Southfield, Michigan. "We gained greater control over our healthcare costs while giving our employees the flexibility to choose medical services and coverage that best suit their needs. The technology solution also improved our benefit administration."

"Consumer-driven plans can have a major impact on costs, but their success hinges on creating a culture where employees are empowered to play a more active role in managing their healthcare," says Doug Roehm, President of Strategic Benefit Services. "At this seminar you won't hear a lot of statistics and marketing spin. Attendees will leave with tools that can be implemented immediately within their organization."

Other expert speakers include Doug Roehm; Teri Looney, Director of Account Relations, Humana; and Mark Troyanek, IT Manager, Strategic Benefit Services. Topics to be covered include:

  -- Proven Strategies for Implementing a Consumer-Driven Healthcare Plan
  -- Skin in the Game: Gaining Employee Buy-In
  -- Benefits That Create a Competitive Advantage: A Case Study from Wagon
     Engineering
  -- Technology Solutions: Streamlining Benefit Administration and
     Empowering Employees

The seminar will be held on June 7, 2005 in Troy, Michigan at the MSU Management Education Center on 811 West Square Lake Road. The seminar is free, but seating is limited and pre-registration is required. To register, visit http://www.strategicbenefits.com/register or contact Natalie Campbell at (800) 727-4114. Registration begins at 8:00 a.m. and a mini hot buffet breakfast will be served. The seminar runs from 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Founded in 1996, Strategic Benefit Services is one of Southeast Michigan's top employee group benefits consulting and insurance brokerage firms representing a vast array of reputable insurance carriers. They provide fully integrated products and services in insurance and retirement planning to small and mid-sized organizations. For more information about Strategic Benefit Services, visit http://www.strategicbenefits.com/ .