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2025 ACHENTX Cocktails with the Chiefs – Rangers v. Angels
2025 ACHENTX Cocktails with the Chiefs
Topic: The never-ending price escalation of healthcare benefits.
Who’s to blame? The payors, the brokers, the employees, the employers. Sadly, it’s all of us.
For the first time, our popular Cocktails with the Chiefs event is being held in conjunction with a Rangers game (as the Rangers will be playing the Los Angeles Angels), in a private suite at Globe Life Field. Our program will begin with networking and check-ins at 5:30pm, with the educational panel starting promptly at 6pm. The networking and fun will then continue as the game gets started at 7:05pm.
Panel Moderator:
W. Scott Hurst, MBA, FACHE
President & CEO
Patient Physician Network
Panelists:
Larry Childress, CEBS
Senior Vice President
Lockton
Chris Gay
CEO and Cofounder
Evry Health
Angela A. Ripper
Assistant Vice President and Managing Counsel
Unum Group
Dr. Dominic Vu, PharmD
Senior Vice President
USI Southwest
A special thanks to our event hosts for this event!
Evry Health
USI
Unum
Lockton
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Speakers Bios:
As a Senior Vice President, Larry Childress is a lead consultant for Lockton’s healthcare industry vertical and supports a variety of clients across the healthcare spectrum. He is well versed with the Corporate Practice of Medicine (CPOM) and its impact on benefit plan compliance and configurations.
With more than 28 years in the employee benefits industry, Larry has assisted health systems with promoting the utilization of their proprietary assets through benefit program customization and alignment with third-party partners.
His career began as a group underwriter at Prudential Healthcare, and after four years, he transitioned to employee benefits consulting with Mercer. Larry joined Lockton as a Senior Account Executive and was promoted to Consultant Lead before progressing to a Senior Vice President position, where he serves as the senior lead consultant and executive sponsor to many client relationships.
During his time at Lockton, Larry implemented and led the employee benefits Transaction Advisory/M&A practice for the Lockton-Dunning Series. In this role, he managed the due diligence process for a variety of financial sponsors, including private equity and corporate strategic buyers.
Larry has also served as the Head of Benefits, North America for Ericsson, Inc., where he oversaw the strategy development and execution of all health and welfare, defined benefit, and defined contribution retirement plans for 10,000+ employees in the U.S. and Canada.
He earned his Certified Employee Benefit Specialist (CEBS) designation in 2008 from the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds the FINRA Series 7 and NASAA Series 66 securities licenses.
Chris Gay is the CEO and cofounder of Evry Health, A Globe Life Company. Launched by Y Combinator in 2018 and acquired by Globe Life in 2024, Evry Health is a commercial health insurer. Chris started his career at Goldman Sachs, escaped to be a mediocre software programmer, and eventually became a serial entrepreneur. Chris attended UT Austin and has lived in East Dallas with his family for 28 years.
William Scott Hurst, MBA, FACHE is currently the President & CEO of Patient Physician Network (PPN), one of the largest Independent Physician Association’s (IPA) in North Texas with over 650 members encompassing multi-specialty physicians and advanced practice providers. In this role, he works with teams of dedicated physicians, staff, and caregivers to advance independent medicine and to prepare the market for changes that have to take place to ensure the future of independence.
Scott is known as an accomplished leader with over 24 years of experience in Physician Alignment, Payor Contracting, Quality Improvement, Operations, Provider Recruitment, Patient Experience and Value-Based Care Operations. At the end of 2024, Scott was honored to be nominated by D CEO and D Healthcare as one of five “Innovators of the Year” for his work around Libertatem.
Before being recruited to PPN in April 2020, Scott served as an Executive Director overseeing operations in Texas and Louisiana for naviHealth, an industry leader in value-based care operations for health systems and health plans servicing Medicare patients.
Over his career, Scott has been blessed to serve as a Project Leader at Methodist Health System; the Senior Director of Physician Networks at Children’s Health in Dallas; a Director of Physician Alignment at CHRISTUS Spohn Health System in Corpus Christi, TX and as a consultant for over 10 years to hospitals in the Midwest, Pacific Northwest and Alaska. In addition, Scott had the honor of serving as the President of the North Texas chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives in 2020.
Scott completed his Bachelor of Arts and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Drury University (1995 / 1997) in Springfield, MO while working in the Athletic Department in Sports Information & Event Management. When he is not at work, Scott can be found hanging out with his wife Erica who is a research nurse at Texas Oncology and her daughters, getting updates from his soon to be graduating 21-year-old daughter who is finishing her degree in painting at the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), assuming the role of “Grand Dude” for his new grandson, listening to live music around the Metroplex or refereeing high school basketball for the North Texas Basketball Officials Association.
Ms. Angela Ripper advises HR daily on decisions ranging from initial hires to disciplinary actions to termination. She works with HR on Title VII, the ADA, the ADEA, Immigration, OSHA as well as strategic matters. She also advises on Reductions in Force, reviews contracts, and advises the Absence Management Center on the FMLA and the ADA.
Ms. Ripper received her BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1986 and her JD from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1989. She is a member of the Tennessee Bar Association, the Chattanooga Bar Association and the Association of Threat Management Professionals. Ms. Ripper served on the National Advisory Board of In-house Counsel for M. Lee Smith Publishers. Ms. Ripper served on the Finance Board for St. Jude Catholic Church. She is the past Chairperson of the school board for St. Jude Catholic School and served on the school board for Notre Dame High School. Ms. Ripper serves on the Executive Committee and the Board of the Northside Neighborhood House and serves of the Executive Committee and the Board for Chambliss Center for Children.
Dr. Dominic Vu joined USI Southwest in 2019 as Senior Vice President of Pharmaceutical Strategies in the Employee Benefits Division. Dr. Vu has extensive clinical and administrative leadership experience in medication adherence, population health initiatives, and PBM pharmacy operations from his previous role as Director of Pharmacy for Memorial Hermann Health Plan. His work has focused on leveraging population health data to design clinical programs to reduce healthcare cost through pharmacy and medical benefit design, formulary management, and negotiating with PBMs for lowest unit cost price. Dr. Vu’s formal education includes completing an AMCP managed care pharmacy residency with Kelsey-Seybold Clinics, Doctor of Pharmacy from University of Houston (2011), and Bachelor of Computer Science from Midwestern State University (2002).
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