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Poindexter's Points: Advanced Plan for Health's News and Updates

Warm Holiday Wishes

Season’s Greetings! On behalf of Poindexter and the entire Advanced Plan for Health team, we would like to extend a sincere wish to you for a warm and wonderful holiday season and a prosperous and happy new year. We truly appreciate you, and we are honored to work with you.

Happy Holidays to you and yours!

In The News...

Here We Grow Again! APH has grown significantly over the past few years, in large part thanks to the incredible partnerships and relationships we have forged and fostered. The time has come for us to move to our new corporate headquarters in Westlake, Texas – a Dallas suburb. Our move is this month, and we’re very much looking forward to getting settled in there and having more space for our growing team.

In the photo above, our CFO, Mark McIntyre is seen checking the build process at our new location.

‌ We will be sharing the address to our new location soon.

Advanced Plan for Health welcomes Rick Scheel, VP of National Sales We are pleased to share that Rick Scheel recently joined Advanced Plan for Health as Vice President of National Sales. Rick is leveraging his many years of successfully working with and within large healthcare organizations to share the power of the Poindexter platform to deliver critical visibility to help them to better manage healthcare cost and risk. Rick may be reached at rickscheel@mypoindexter.com.

Advanced Plan for Health welcomes Yvonne Daugherty, VP Development We are glad to announce that Yvonne Daugherty has joined Advanced Plan for Health as Vice President of Development, and is overseeing marketing and supporting corporate-level client communication and client relationships. She has worked in the healthcare and health insurance space her entire career, and brings a background in working within sales and marketing in the broker, TPA, health plan and healthcare service provider environments. She is very much looking forward to working with our clients and partners to support them in their business goals. She is available to support your APH-related communication needs, and may be reached at yvonnedaugherty@mypoindexter.com .

Blog Insights

Our blog focus has shifted recently to highlight areas of high healthcare cost and risk that we are able to provide visibility into through Poindexter’s powerful advanced and predictive analytics capabilities. A summary of our most recent posts is below. Please be sure to follow us on LinkedIn to see these as they are posted. You may also access our blogs here .

Fatty Liver Disease – Is This Silent, Life Threatening Epidemic on Your Radar? What if you could impact liver health and keep some plan members / employees from progressing to more serious, life altering, expensive liver disease; like liver cirrhosis and ultimately liver cancer, failure or a liver transplant? Most people are not aware of fatty liver disease until they are told that they have this potentially deadly, life-sapping condition. Even once diagnosed, people often don’t know how to address the situation and reduce their risk. APH is taking a proactive stance in broadcasting the prevalence and risks of fatty liver disease, which impacts at least a quarter of our population, and can be prevented or slowed by addressing sedentary lifestyles and poor eating habits, and encouraging those impacted to work with their healthcare provider and nurse health coach / nurse navigator to manage health risks and chronic disease conditions. Read more by clicking here .

Imagine getting eight engagement calls from your health plan in one week... Engaging and educating healthcare consumers on plan benefits, cost-saving options, health risks, as well as the benefits of closing gaps in care can spur action and the desired results. But disconnected messaging via multiple outreaches can cause aggravation and abrasion - even leading to member abrasion and attrition. It’s important to put yourself in your members’ shoes when setting up engagement outreach strategies and do your best to minimize the number of outreaches by getting a deeper understanding of the whole picture of the member through analytics, and plan out the fewest possible touches with the greatest possible impact. Read more by clicking here .

APH Publications APH consistently publishes content that covers industry issues, related research and best practices. We’re pleased to be able to share our White Papers and eBooks to support client and partner insight and research needs. White Paper - Health Plans and TPAS: WHAT MORE DO YOUR EMPLOYER CLIENTS NEED FROM YOU? APH’s latest whitepaper, “ Health Plans and TPAS: WHAT MORE DO YOUR EMPLOYER CLIENTS NEED FROM YOU? ” provides insights on how advanced and predictive analytics are providing health plans, TPAs, self-insured employers, Brokers and risk-bearing providers with the competitive advantage they need to stand out in today’s crowded marketplace – allowing them to deliver the insights desperately needed to drive down ever-crippling healthcare costs and risks. Click here to download this valuable new white paper.

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