Med-Vision provides strategies to lower healthcare costs, improve quality

Med-Vision, a Tampa-based medical consulting company providing strategies to lower healthcare costs and improve quality of care, is providing free healthcare planning advice and solutions via the Web. A newly launched Insights on Healthcare Blog (http://medvision.wordpress.com/) created by Dan Ross, president of Med-Vision, offers timely healthcare commentary, insights to help healthcare consumers, and information to help self-funded employers understand complicated issues of employee benefits.

“I’m addressing the critical healthcare issues affecting American healthcare consumers, and I’m also offering my industry expertise in specific issues that plague midsize-to-large employers”

Recent posts include:

• Cancer -- a scary subject taken head on

• Latest national health reform attempt -- from the warm pan into the furnace

• Prescription drug therapy compliance -- strategies/thoughts for improvement

• What causes healthcare inflation? Let’s ask the expert

“I’m addressing the critical healthcare issues affecting American healthcare consumers, and I’m also offering my industry expertise in specific issues that plague midsize-to-large employers,” said Dan Ross, Med-Vision’s founder and president. “The blog provides valuable insight from the trenches of actionable healthcare reform.”

Ross has more than 20 years experience in employee benefits and has held management roles in major insurer CIGNA Group Insurance prior to launching Med-Vision. He has solved many problems for self-funded employers related to benefits design, optimization of benefit plans, and organizational strategies to save employers time and money. His Med-Vision role allows him to help employers organize, integrate, and centralize data intelligence to build comprehensive measurements for improving health and financial outcomes.

Connie Gee, Med-Vision’s vice president and wellness strategist, is also utilizing Web 2.0 technologies. She provides seminar updates, free articles, and blogs at www.LinktoEXPERT.com/conniegee. She also writes magazine editorials, including a recent piece titled Dropping Employee Health Coverage? Think again., which speaks to CFOs and decision makers contemplating the value of their employee health plans.

Founded in 2005, Med-Vision delivers healthcare planning, risk management, and wellness consulting to help employer groups achieve optimal employee health and productivity. Med-Vision specifically caters to the needs of self-funded employer plan sponsors and currently impacts more than 75,000 health plan members across the U.S. Med-Vision has helped corporations, healthcare facilities, municipalities, and school districts to reduce risks, reverse trends, and decrease healthcare costs while increasing quality of care.