Lessons on Giving Patients Price and Quality Data
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Webcast on CD or Webcast 0n-Demand
Sponsored by: HealthLeaders magazine
Presented on October 21, 2008
Provide power to the patient and bring more business to you
For most major purchases, consumers are getting the information they want at their fingertips-and on their terms. Doing that in healthcare is seen as impossible. But Alegent Health is well on its way to solving that problem. Its leaders realized that as more hospitals and systems move away from an inpatient-centered model and toward a comprehensive wellness-based model, it needed to be proactive-not reactive-in delivering the kind of consumer-friendly pricing and quality information that would make its organization stand out as a lifetime healthcare partner in sickness and in health. Learn from their blueprint how your organization can offer to offer patients relevant individual pricing information prior to service.
Listen to HealthLeaders Media for this 90–minute webcast and hear how Alegent Health's senior leadership team implemented My Cost, a web–based tool designed to calculate personally relevant treatment costs based on a number of customer–specific factors. Learn from their journey of success through a three–point consumer strategy that includes concepts and ideas that are adaptable to almost any size organization and budget, such as:
Don't underestimate the consumer. Competing on your value proposition derived from quality and pricing transparency is your path to thriving in the era of the educated customer.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Purchase this informative webcast and learn how to:
- Recognize and implement proven ways to meet consumers’ needs
- Translate meeting those needs into long–term financial strength
- Identify strategies to differentiate your facility from competitors and a build long–term relationships with customers
- Analyze and overcome challenges in a pursuit of consumer–focused strategy
PROGRAM AGENDA
- Alegent's strategic shift
- If you don't do it, someone else will
- Nuts and bolts: Alegent's pursuit of a consumer engagement strategy
- Incentives to drive behaviors
- Innovative Access Points
- Consumer–friendly tools
- Q&A
ABOUT ALEGENT HEALTH
Alegent Health is the largest private employer in Nebraska, comprised of five metropolitan medical centers, four rural hospitals, and 42 primary care clinics with 125 physicians in Nebraska and Iowa. It has multiple collaborative affiliations with other healthcare providers in the region.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Amy Protexter, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Alegent Health. Since joining Alegent, Protexter has helped to increase its profile as a national leader in consumerism and consumer–driven healthcare, helping launch both quality and price transparency initiatives for the organization. Her leadership has resulted in numerous awards – among them, the IABC Gold Quill award for a benefits communication program that launched consumer–driven healthcare plans for employees, resulting in 92% participation in the new plans. Protexter has more than 20 years of experience in the communications field, previously serving as director of account services for Smith and Collins, a start–up public relations firm in Omaha, Nebraska, and as the first vice president of corporate communications for Mutual of Omaha.
Tim Meier, Chief Financial Officer, Alegent Health Bergan Mercy Medical Center has been with Alegent Health for 9 years. Meier’s over 20 years experience in the healthcare field is broad based and includes working in various types of facilities, including a 50–bed hospital, a 250–bed standalone, and a ten–hospital system. He has held positions as operations leader – revenue cycle operations, director of finance, controller, and chief financial officer. Meier is also a Fellow in HFMA.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
CEOs, COOs, CFOs, healthcare marketing executives, planning and business development managers, revenue cycle managers, board members, clinicians
INCLUDED IN YOUR MATERIALS PACKET
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this webcast, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials. These materials are provided with PDF links.
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