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2020 – A year for innovation, teamwork, and resilience
Cathy Eddy
12/1/2020
Adam Grant, Organizational Psychologist, The Wharton School of Business; Bestselling Author; Host: WorkLife, a TED Original Podcast, joins the Health Plan Alliance for its Fall Leadership Forum as part of the CKE Lecture Series. Cathy Eddy shares some of the highlights of his talk in this blog.
Blog: Navigating the "new normal"
Kristin Rodriguez, Health Plan Alliance
6/30/2020 8:00:00 AM
The Health Plan Alliance has always brought our members together to do meaningful work and we're continuing to do just that. On June 16, we piloted our first virtual experience and hosted the MA Sales & Marketing Virtual Summit online. It illuminated that “virtual”
doesn't get in the way of fostering the professional connections you crave or prevent those aHa! moments we all need.
Blog: Innovation at work
Cathy K. Eddy
12/27/2019
What health plans can learn from the former head of innovation and creativity at Walt Disney Company.
BLOG: Flying solo? The top reason to join the flock plus 5 key traits to maximize the benefits
Dennis Bolin, Health Plan Alliance
8/26/2019
What conditions need to be present to ensure your organization benefits from being a part of the flock – both internally between teams and externally between other health care providers?
BLOG: Growing where you are already planted
Kristin Rodriguez, Health Plan Alliance
6/24/2019
How delivery systems can become a hub for health and healthcare in the future by shifting their focus from buying and building hospitals to leveraging their existing platforms to generate growth and often more profitable streams of revenue.
BLOG: Why health plans should think more like Netflix
Kristin Rodriguez, Health Plan Alliance
5/13/2019
Netflix's success didn't come from one dramatic market play. It came from a thousand little choices their leadership made in reaction to new opportunities and a changing landscape. Using this approach, maybe health plans could create a health care experience consumers value as much as family movie night.
BLOG: Access to health care coverage is topic #1 (even in Antarctica)
Dennis Bolin, Health Plan Alliance
3/4/2019
I recently took a trip to the Antarctic and met many interesting people along the way. When they heard I work in health insurance they would launch into their opinions, experiences and questions. Demonstrating that health care is at the center of our personal conversations as well as our political ones.
BLOG: 10 takeaways from the Alliance Fall Leadership Forum
Joe Lastinger, Health Plan Alliance
10/25/2018
Health Plan Alliance leaders convened in Boston, October 9-12 to collaborate on their evolving enterprise-wide strategies. Attendees gained powerful insight into where investors are focusing their dollars today, saw how newly released Medicare data sets are being used to improve quality measurement and heard seven incredible examples of how Alliance members are delivering exceptional care management in their markets.
BLOG: Top 10 reads of the summer
Health Plan Alliance
10/2/2018
What is summer without a reading challenge? This summer, Health Plan Alliance members tapped into the resources available in the Alliance Knowledge Center and accessed more than 700 documents. Turn over a new leaf this fall with our favorite page-turners of the summer and hear from our reading challenge champion, Sarah Litchfield, Government Program Coordinator, Geisinger Health Plan.
BLOG: Q&A - Containing costs on out of network claims
Health Plan Alliance
9/17/2018
We sat down with Tim Callender, VP at The Phia Group (one of the companies in our GPO) to learn more about health plans' cost-containment challenges and the savings health plans have achieved on out of network claims with The Phia Group's newest cost-containment service, Phia Unwrapped.
BLOG: How provider-sponsored health plans use their super power to differentiate in government-sponsored health care
Kristin Rodriguez, Health Plan Alliance
8/31/2018
From a deep dive into Medicare Advantage (MA) product design and marketing strategy to major wins and lessons learned in risk adjustment, quality and member engagement, Alliance members share how they are differentiating themselves in their marketplace and serving their beneficiaries.
BLOG: Q&A - How health plans can simplify the benefit plan process
Health Plan Alliance
8/7/2018
We sat down with Mohammed Vaid, CEO of Simplify Healthcare, to get his perspective on how some health plans are seeing success with benefit plan automation, achieving compliance and growth, and saving significant dollars.
BLOG: Deciding what to say no to: Association Health Plans, Short Term Medical, Level Funded Plans
Rick Koven, Consultant, Koven Consulting and Coaching
7/24/2018
These new individual and group commercial products are complex and a healthy dose of caution is warranted. At the 2018 Product Design Strategies Fly-in, Alliance members discussed the latest regulatory guidelines and shared insights from recent product redesigns.
BLOG: Marketing to MA: How to stand out and win over members
Scott R Kelly, VP, COO, Aspire Health Plan
7/20/2018
Medicare Advantage (MA) annual enrollment period (AEP) for 2019 opens in less than 90 days! Scott R Kelly, VP, COO, Aspire Health Plan shares his top three marketing challenges going into AEP, and invites Alliance members to swap their marketing collateral samples with their peers and collaborate with him at the upcoming Government Programs Value Visit.
BLOG: Achieving affordable health care AND growth
Dennis Bolin, Health Plan Alliance
7/9/2018
Alliance member health plan, health system and provider executives gathered last month at the Health System & Health Plan Leadership Forum in Chicago to discuss how provider-sponsored and independently owned health plans are uniquely positioned to deliver affordable healthcare and compete with the new players entering the market...