Upland Hills Health Join QualityPath for Colonoscopies

Contact:

Tierney Anderson

608.210.6642

E-mail: tanderson@the-alliance.org

www.the-alliance.org/press

Upland Hills HealthJoin QualityPath for Colonoscopies

MADISON, Wis. (Oct. 26, 2018) – Upland Hills Healthhave met the national quality measures and adopted processes that improve care for patients to become QualityPath providers for colonoscopies.  

The Alliance is adding colonoscopies to QualityPath as part of efforts to help employers emphasize the value of colorectal cancer screening for employees and their family members that are covered by a health plan that uses The Alliance network to access health care. The Alliance also provides employers with a white paper on colorectal cancer screening that identifies cost-effective approaches and recommends additional resources.

The Alliance developed QualityPath for colonoscopies with one of eight Purchaser Value Network (PVN) grants made nationwide with funding provided by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation for regional business coalitions implementing innovative practices in value-based purchasing and health care payment reform. PVN is an initiative of the Pacific Business Group on Health, San Francisco, Calif.

Launched in 2015, the QualityPath program currently guides patients to high-quality providers for CT and MRI scans and knee replacement and total hip replacement surgeries.

QualityPath offers these benefits:

• Doctors, hospitals and clinics meet national quality measures and adopt practices that lead to better outcomes.
• A bundled price covers most elements of surgeries and tests. For patients that means low out-of-pocket costs – sometimes nothing!
• A warranty covers complications or repeat tests.
• A patient experience manager guides surgical patients.
• Online tools and information provide additional support
• Shared decision-making reduces unnecessary care.
• A toolkit helps employers tell employees about the advantages.

Employers who are members of The Alliance can enroll in QualityPath, which is then offered to employees and family members enrolled in health plans that use The Alliance network. A list of participating doctors, hospitals and clinics is available on The Alliance website (www.the-alliance.org).

The Alliance is a not-for-profit cooperative that moves health care forward by controlling costs, improving quality and engaging individuals in their health. Members include more than 240 self-funded employers and multiemployer plans in Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa.

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Alliance President and CEO Cheryl DeMars is available for interviews on request.

Bizzy Bizzy Disrupts Design Industry with 1 Day Website

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 24, 2018

Press Contact:
Candy Phelps
2002 Atwood Ave. Ste. 211
Madison, WI
608-977-1756
info@bizzybizzycreative.com

Bizzy Bizzy Disrupts Design Industry with 1 Day Website

Agency Creates ‘Bizzy Work’ Method to Reinvent a Broken Process

MADISON – Bizzy Bizzy, a Madison-based creative agency, has developed a new method of creating websites and building brands in a day that could change the way everyone in the design industry works with their clients.

“We realized building a website can be a painful experience for people,” said Candy Phelps, founder of Bizzy Bizzy. “Small business owners don’t have time to email back and forth for months about one marketing project. So we decided to reinvent a broken process that has become the standard in our industry.”

Bizzy Bizzy created an innovative design approach dubbed Bizzy Work™ that involves working in person with their clients to achieve extraordinary results in surprisingly little time. They bring an entire team together (which may include graphic designers, writers and web developers) to work on their signature services, the 1 Day Website and 1 Day Branding. In addition, Bizzy Bizzy created special tangible tools to make the process more efficient and fun such as their Core Value Cards and Font Finder Cards.

“While everyone else is turning to technology to solve their problems,” Phelps said, “we’re using some old school innovation with Bizzy Work™. By getting everyone together in real life to collaborate on projects, we can distill months of work into one day because it’s so much more efficient than emailing. When people in our industry hear about what we are doing, it’s like a lightbulb goes off for them. It just makes sense.”

Bizzy Bizzy primarily works with smaller businesses, solopreneurs and startups to ensure the project scope fits within the Bizzy Work™ model. They have been hired by dozens of organizations from all around Wisconsin and as far away as Colorado.

“We used Bizzy Bizzy to build our website in one day,” said Amy Kothe of Hope Surrogacy in Madison. “When we tell people that is how we built our site, no one can believe us.”

About Bizzy Bizzy: Bizzy Bizzy, a marketing agency based in Madison, specializes in branding and web design. They are an experiential creative company, which means they work in person with their clients to allow them to be a part of the creative process. Founded in 2009 by Candy Phelps, the agency rebranded in 2018 and refocused their services to exclusively offer the 1 Day Branding and 1 Day Website. For more information, visit https://bizzybizzycreative.com.

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Alliance CEO to Testify at U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Hearing

MADISON, Wis. (Oct. 23, 2018) – Cheryl DeMars, Alliance President and CEO, will testify before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Nov. 28 at 9 a.m. central time (10 a.m. eastern time). The hearing will focus on “Reducing Health Care Costs: Improving Affordability Through Innovation.”

The Alliance is an employer-owned, not-for-profit cooperative that has more than 240 employer members with self-funded health plans that cover more than 85,000 people in Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa. The Alliance cooperative and its member employers are using innovative strategies to make health care more affordable. Employers featured in written or oral testimony include:

• Flambeau, Inc., Baraboo, Wis.
• Colony Brands, Monroe, Wis.
• Brakebush Brothers Inc., Westfield, Wis.
• Miniature Precision Components, Walworth, Wis.

To schedule an interview with Cheryl DeMars about how employers are helping improve health care affordability, contact Darla Dernovsek at 608.436.3099 or ddernovsek@the-alliance.org.

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Download a photo of Cheryl DeMars here: https://www.the-alliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cheryl-demars-hi-res.jpg

Marty Malloy is Awarded “Tina Hafeman Friend of WASBO” Award

Marty Malloy, Director Education and Government Practice, M3 Insurance, was awarded the Tina Hafeman Friend of WASBO Award, in acknowledgement of his special and noteworthy support to WASBO. He was presented with the award Friday, October 5 during the Wisconsin Association of School Business Officials (WASBO) annual Fall Conference in Elkhart Lake.

Malloy was nominated by his fellow WASBO Spring Conference committee members: Kathy Davis (DeForest Area School District), Ben Irwin (Cedarburg School District) and Mike Koltes (CESA 5). All Malloy’s nomination letters reference his active participation in WASBO through involvement on the Spring Conference planning committee, Certified School Risk Manager program, Safety and Risk Management committee, various conference presentations and willingness to share his expertise with anyone. A common theme noted is Malloy’s “positive attitude, sense of humor…and WASBO spirit.”

“Marty strives to provide support and develop the network within WASBO which not only helps others grow in the profession, but also illustrates the value of the organization…” noted one letter.

“In addition to his time and great personality, Marty is an advocate for WASBO. He encourages others to participate and represents WASBO well. He does all of these great things while remaining humble,” noted another. This honor carries with it a $500 donation in the recipient’s name to a charity of the recipient’s choice that benefits children in Wisconsin, as he has shown through his work within WASBO. Malloy has selected American Family
Children’s Hospital to receive this donation.

WASBO Mission: To provide professional development, to foster a network of support and to advocate for funding that ensures outstanding educational opportunities for all children in Wisconsin

WASBO Vision: To be the most influential Wisconsin organization for state and national school business management and leadership

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About M3

M3 Insurance offers insight, advice and strategies to help clients manage risk, purchase insurance and provide employee benefits. We are committed to being experts in both the products we represent and the industries we serve. Our people advance M3’s competitive advantage in the marketplace, and our focus on community builds better places to live and work. M3 is consistently ranked a top 100 broker in America and celebrates its 50thanniversary in 2018.

Marty Malloy is Awarded “Tina Hafeman Friend of WASBO” Award

Marty Malloy, Director Education and Government Practice, M3 Insurance, was awarded the Tina Hafeman Friend of WASBO Award, in acknowledgement of his special and noteworthy support to WASBO. He was presented with the award Friday, October 5 during the Wisconsin Association of School Business Officials (WASBO) annual Fall Conference in Elkhart Lake.

Malloy was nominated by his fellow WASBO Spring Conference committee members: Kathy Davis (DeForest Area School District), Ben Irwin (Cedarburg School District) and Mike Koltes (CESA 5). All Malloy’s nomination letters reference his active participation in WASBO through involvement on the Spring Conference planning committee, Certified School Risk Manager program, Safety and Risk Management committee, various conference presentations and willingness to share his expertise with anyone. A common theme noted is Malloy’s “positive attitude, sense of humor…and WASBO spirit.”

“Marty strives to provide support and develop the network within WASBO which not only helps others grow in the profession, but also illustrates the value of the organization…” noted one letter.

“In addition to his time and great personality, Marty is an advocate for WASBO. He encourages others to participate and represents WASBO well. He does all of these great things while remaining humble,” noted another. This honor carries with it a $500 donation in the recipient’s name to a charity of the recipient’s choice that benefits children in Wisconsin, as he has shown through his work within WASBO. Malloy has selected American Family
Children’s Hospital to receive this donation.

WASBO Mission: To provide professional development, to foster a network of support and to advocate for funding that ensures outstanding educational opportunities for all children in Wisconsin

WASBO Vision: To be the most influential Wisconsin organization for state and national school business management and leadership

About M3

M3 Insurance offers insight, advice and strategies to help clients manage risk, purchase insurance and provide employee benefits. We are committed to being experts in both the products we represent and the industries we serve. Our people advance M3’s competitive advantage in the marketplace, and our focus on community builds better places to live and work. M3 is consistently ranked a top 100 broker in America and celebrates its 50thanniversary in 2018.