How Payers Can “Win” in the Government Space Employing Digital Strategies
Tuesday, September 19
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM (PT)
In this panel discussion, industry leaders will explore how dental payers can employ digital strategies and tools to grow their government-sponsored lines of business, such as Medicare Advantage and Medicaid while improving member and provider experience, reducing costs, and improving care.
Participants will gain insights from experts on how to:
- Grow your government LOB provider networks
- Establish stronger member connections and improve member retention
- Improve member access to quality care and improve patient experiences while reducing costs
- Dramatically streamline payer and provider processes by reducing administrative work
Josh Filo
Director of Business Development
SKYGEN
Josh Filo is a digital evangelist at SKYGEN dedicated to exploiting innovation and emerging technologies to move business efficiencies and offerings forward in this digital age. With over a decade of experience in the health tech sector, he is tasked as Director of Business Development to drive digital adoption for each constituent in the specialty benefits space.
Kyle Koltz
Chief Operations Officer
SKYGEN
As chief operations officer of third-party administration at SKYGEN, Kyle Koltz is responsible for advancing operational excellence, the satisfaction of customers, providers, and members' bottom-line revenue growth of SKYGEN’s administrative business lines. With his broad experience in information technology, claims administration, and general management roles, his leadership is key to achieving SKYGEN’s commitment to transforming the way dental, vision and Medicaid benefits are delivered for increased efficiency at reduced costs for all Americans.
Kyle has a proven track record of success with the ability to transform organizational operations in the rapidly changing healthcare environment. Upon joining SKYGEN, he served as vice president of Administration and was responsible for the government dental, commercial dental, vision, and government medical TPA business lines. He is a critical thinker delivering operational excellence, developing market strategy, extending sales/distribution channels, and implements business initiatives focused on cost containment, improving profitability, and customer satisfaction. He successfully assesses challenges quickly, delivers on commitments, and develops strategic plans to meet quality measures while improving loss ratios and increasing revenues.
Before joining SKYGEN, Kyles served as director of medical products at Humana and led the HumanaOne health exchange business. Before that, he held positions of increasing responsibility at Assurant Health, where he served as vice president of customer, agent service experience, and director of IT.
Kyle earned his BBA at the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater.
Caitlin Walsdorf
Principal
HealthScape Advisors
Caitlin Walsdorf is a principal at HealthScape Advisors. She has extensive experience advising clients across the healthcare landscape as the co-lead of the Ancillary Practice and an active member of the Medicare Advantage Practice. Her consulting experience includes a broad spectrum of strategic and operational engagements, including new business capture, market entry and diversification, strategic growth, and performance improvement plans, specialty services procurement, operational construct design, and operational process improvement. Caitlin has supported several dental clients during her tenure on engagements across all lines of business and spanning front-, middle-, and back-office functions.
Before joining HealthScape, Caitlin led Government Programs business development at EyeMed Vision Care. During her tenure, she executed a strategic expansion initiative in Medicaid by implementing six new partners representing more than 1M members. To support Medicaid at scale, Caitlin led cross-functional teams to deploy system enhancements, improve platform capabilities, and refine operating procedures. Caitlin began her career at HealthScape Advisors after attending the University of Notre Dame.
Jeffrey Warner
VP, Government Operations & Implementation
UnitedHealth Group
Jeff is a technical, operational, and relationship management leader with over 20 years of experience in dental-managed care delivery domains.
He’s held key leadership roles in business operations, systems design, and analysis, application development, portfolio management, IT operations, infrastructure management, business intelligence/data warehouse management, and Information Technology senior leadership. This includes experience with multiple healthcare payer administration systems, practice management systems, constituent web interchange portals, data interchanges, revenue cycle, EDI/HIPAA transactions, commercial/employer-sponsored and government (Medicaid, Medicare, CHIP) programs, and state MMIS requirements.
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