May 4, 2022 Webinar – Health Plan Financing and Cost Containment, Part 1

Dorothy M. Cociu has 35+ years experience in the sales and administration of employee benefit programs.  She is the author of The ABC’s of HIPAA Compliance; An Employer’s Simplified Administrative Guide to HIPAA Compliance, published October, 2000.  She won a National Legislative Achievement Award from the National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU) for her work in Legislative Communications to employers and the industry, and her work in HIPAA education in 2001.  Dorothy began her administrative experience in the Taft-Hartley marketplace in 1984, then moved to self-funded administration after three years. Dorothy left the TPA field in 1995 to develop Advanced Benefit Consulting, a benefits and third party administration consulting firm specializing in self-funded health plans and their administration.  Her clients include fully insured and self-insured employers, third party administrators, excess loss carriers, general agencies, health care providers and the U.S. Department of Labor.  Ms. Cociu has had over 70 articles published on topics such as HIPAA Privacy, ERISA, Self Insurance, COBRA, Federal and State Health Care Reform, and Managed Care Reform.  She has also been interviewed and quoted as an industry expert on HIPAA by Business Insurance and on self-funding by Business Week. She is a frequent contributing author for California Broker magazine, The Statement, and America’s Benefit Specialists Magazine.  She has consulted on a number of privacy audits, and has been successful in reducing and eliminating penalties. She is also  the host of the Benefits Executive Roundtable podcast series.

Dorothy has spoken on a national basis for over 25 years and has been an instructor for the Certified Employee Benefit Specialist Program of the Wharton School of Business, administered locally by the Insurance Educational Association, since 1994.  She was asked to head up a national HIPAA educational program for employers by the National Association of Health Underwriters, as directed by the US Department of Labor and The Department of Health and Human Services in 2004.