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Employee Engagement: Your Tool for Tackling Heath Care Costs

Employee Engagement: Your Tool for Tackling Heath Care Costs Everyone is concerned about increasing health care costs. This interactive session will review the various triggers that drive health care and insurance costs and cover the major communication and engagement strategies that companies use to reduce their trend. Case studies to be discussed include wellness, employee [...]

The Value of Patient Care – Insurance Consultants’ Response

At our most recent user group meeting, we asked our consultants a simple question. “What value does Patient Care bring to your clients?” This was their response.

Patient Money – How to Avoid, or Dispute, Surprise Medical Bills

By WALECIA KONRAD Published: April 30, 2010 Amber Cornford, a nursing student, received treatment for a bone disease and only part of her cost  was covered by insurance. The anesthesiologist sent a bill for the remainder to her mother.

On Health Care, Let’s All Take a Deep Breath

March 30, 2010   Joseph Vanden Plas, Senior IB Editor, is our strongest voice on the political front, and he writes on a wide variety of subjects, most of which are directly pertinent to economic development circles. He holds public officials accountable, and explains the larger playing field when a special interest group is involved. [...]

Employee Engagement: Your Tool for Tackling Heath Care Costs

Employee Engagement: Your Tool for Tackling Heath Care Costs Everyone is concerned about increasing health care costs. This interactive session will review the various triggers that drive health care and insurance costs and cover the major communication and engagement strategies that companies use to reduce their trend. Case studies to be discussed include wellness, employee [...]

The Value of Patient Care – Insurance Consultants’ Response

At our most recent user group meeting, we asked our consultants a simple question. “What value does Patient Care bring to your clients?” This was their response.

Patient Money – How to Avoid, or Dispute, Surprise Medical Bills

By WALECIA KONRAD Published: April 30, 2010 Amber Cornford, a nursing student, received treatment for a bone disease and only part of her cost  was covered by insurance. The anesthesiologist sent a bill for the remainder to her mother.

On Health Care, Let’s All Take a Deep Breath

March 30, 2010   Joseph Vanden Plas, Senior IB Editor, is our strongest voice on the political front, and he writes on a wide variety of subjects, most of which are directly pertinent to economic development circles. He holds public officials accountable, and explains the larger playing field when a special interest group is involved. [...]

Medical bills: Knowing what to avoid

By Parija Kavilanz, senior writer March 10, 2010: 1:08 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — For people who have health insurance, the level of fine print is rising along with the costs. “Compared to 10 years ago, health insurance plans are much more complicated. So many more things can go wrong,” said Jane Cooper, president [...]

YOU WANT IT FREE, BUT IT NEVER WILL BE – MILWAUKEE JOURNAL-SENTINEL OPINION PIECE

Posted: July 30, 2009 Jane Cooper makes money by untangling health-insurance hassles for other companies’ employees. If 100 million of us get dumped onto some “public option,” as predicted, Cooper does not expect to be out of business. Quite the contrary. “The amount of frustration in dealing with public entities is going to be significant,” [...]

Jane Cooper is the BizTimes Bubbler Exec of the Week!

Southeastern Wisconsin business people make it happen Thursday, July 16, 2009 The Bubbler Executive of the Week Name: Jane Cooper Title: Founder, president and CEO Company: Patient Care Company address: 633 W. Wisconsin Ave., Suite 1310, Milwaukee, WI 53203 Company web site: http://www.patientcare4u.com Industry: Health care advocacy Education: B.A. from Augustana College, Rock Island, Ill. [...]

Consumerism is key to health care reform

By Alysha Schertz, of SBT Published January 23, 2009 No one in its path was spared from the devastation when hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of Louisiana in 2005. Jane Cooper, founder, president and chief executive officer of Patient Care, had formed her business in New Orleans in August 2001 and had gained a [...]