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For the past three years, I’ve acted as Senior Consultant and CDHP strategy lead for Reden & Anders. Before that I was President of Candor Consulting, Inc., a successful CDHP practice serving payers and emerging consumer healthcare-focused vendors, and previously served as Vice President for Lumenos, a first mover in consumer directed health care.

As a contributor to the MCOL Blog, I’ll be commenting on a spectrum of issues that pertain to consumer directed health care. I hope you’ll join us in the discussion.

Hello Everyone!

For the past twelve years, I’ve been communicating and interacting online with MCOL members seeking specific managed care and health management information, and responding to their queries about what trends and issues will affect them most. As a contributor to the MCOL Blog, I plan to share commentary on a wide variety of key issues affecting the industry, largely based on the pulse of what I see and hear that today’s professionals are interested in through these ongoing interactions. I welcome your comments and am looking forward to our ongoing dialogue.

Greetings from BlogLand:

MCOL has launched the MCOLBlog, and I'm excited to be a part of it. Actually, we've been blogging to our MCOL paid members for years, but this inaugurates our public blog for all those in the universe wishing to take part in our discussion.

I will be commenting and reporting on a wide variety of topics regarding the business of health care. By way of background, I've been running MCOL, the B2B publisher of managed care and health care business information and resources for the past twelve years. Before that, I ran a regional health plan for over a decade.

In particular, I'll be addressing issues including consumer driven care, transparency, health care reform, strategies addressing plan design and costs, convenient care, international health care issues, Medicare and Medicaid managed care, and much more.

I look forward to your comments.

As Chief Marketing Officer of Finelight, I lead business development and strategic advisory services. In this role, I make it a point to stay currenton health care trends and innovative approaches to marketing to insure our clients success in the competitive landscape.

I am excited to be a contributor to the MCOL Blog. With 25 years of professional experience in the health care and insurance industries, I will be discussing such topics as consumer directed health plans, product branding, Medicare, direct-to-consumer selling and how to achieve a dominant position in segmented markets such as young invincibles, boomers and seniors.

There is much to talk about. I encourage you to participate in the comments section as we work together to tackle these issues.

Thank you,
Lindsay Resnick

Greetings from Peggy C. Frank, MBA, CEO of Frank Public Relations Worldwide. It is my pleasure to be a contributor to MCOL’s new blog community. As a healthcare public relations and marketing professional for more than 30 years, I have lived and breathed so many of the healthcare innovations that have shaped our nation’s healthcare history. I will be addressing key healthcare issues that affect the consumer – who is after all the most important beneficiary of the healthcare system in our growing consumer-centric landscape. By way of background, I have hospital and health system experience, managed care, healthcare IT, and physician experience. In addition, I am a very connected consumer that has provided testimony to federal agencies to help shape government healthcare policy. Please know that blogs are only as powerful and impactful as the community interaction it stimulates. Your active participation will make an indelible difference for those that read and enjoy the blog.

Peggy C. Frank, MBA

Frank Public Relations Worldwide

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