Join us as we discuss: 1. Cost pressure and affordability: Rising health care costs continue to put pressure on employers and employees, driving the need for strategies that manage affordability while maintaining access to quality care. 2. Behavioral health access: Employers are recognizing the importance of offering comprehensive behavioral health benefits to support mental health and well-being, while implementing initiatives that increase awareness, reduce stigma and encourage employees to seek care. 3. Plan design and benefit options: Plan designs are evolving to offer a range of benefit options that align with employee needs and expanding deductible plans to a very high-deductible plan, shifting more cost to consumers and limiting benefits. 4. Employee perspectives: Health care costs are rising exponentially and limiting the ability to get care, and employers are focusing on value and affordability driven strategies to ensure employees can access the care they need without compromising long-term sustainability

•Digestive health conditions: Various conditions and symptoms, the global impact of digestive health conditions and the concept of “silent sufferers.” •The cost of digestive health conditions: Treatment and productivity costs, total cost trends, the gut-mind-body connection and the social impacts of resulting isolation. •Current innovation in digestive health: The importance of preventive health and early intervention, new treatment modalities and pharmaceuticals to support gastrointestinal health, telehealth supporting gastrointestinal specialists with symptom and dietary support including digital tools and future interventions being explored. •Resources for employers: Preventive care employer toolkit, Blue Cross Well-BeingSM and Blue Cross Virtual Well-BeingSM.