Critical Business Issue:
Healthcare -- Costly, Complex, Broken

Are you concerned about the cost of healthcare? If you are, you are not alone. Join General Motors, Wal-Mart, Fortune 500 and small business owners alike, as they grapple with the cost of healthcare benefits.

In every survey of CEOs, CFOs and business leaders published recently, executives say that one of their top concerns is the cost of healthcare benefits and its impact on their firm's competitiveness and on their ability to attract and retain top talent. In one survey by a major business journal, 78% of CEOs suggested that run-away healthcare costs were their #1 concern. They are concerned with good reason.

• Healthcare costs continue to rise faster than the rate of inflation or revenue growth. This continues despite all managed care approaches to keep costs down.
  
  
• Healthcare benefits represent as much as 5%, 10%, even 15% of total cost of doing business.
  
  
• Employee dissatisfaction with decreasing benefits and declining real income due to benefit cost shifting is high.
  
  
• Physicians and providers are at odds with hospitals and insurers because of accounting-driven decision making and declining reimbursements. A "we/they" attitude pits docs and other care givers against administrators.
  
  
• 43 Million Uninsured Americans.
  
  
• US Healthcare is the most costly in the world and the outcomes are poor by the world's metrics.

Big Picture Healthcare Services

Big Picture Healthcare offers a suite of services which including management consulting, facilitation, keynote addresses and intensive workshops. Each offering provides integrated, big picture approaches to these critical issues. Examples include:

• Keynote address on healthcare trends
  
  
• Innovative cost cutting benefit approaches which pay for integrated, holistic approaches, yet reduce spending on never-ending conventional treatments which manage but do not cure chronic conditions.
  
  
• Marketing and branding projects which improve customer loyalty and satisfaction in a customer-driven healthcare era where employees are in the driver's seat, making more healthcare decisions and paying more of their own healthcare costs.
  
  
• Communication workshops guaranteed to improve physicians' bedside manner with best-in-class communication techniques.
  
  
• Leadership projects designed to improve collaboration between administrators, physicians, other caregivers and patients/customers.
  
  
• Facilitation of strategy retreats to develop business, leadership or healthcare benefit strategy.

Nan Andrews Amish,
MBA, CLU, the 'Business
Healthcare Contrarian'

Nan Andrews Amish offers integrated expertise in leadership, strategy, marketing and communication and applies this expertise to the business of healthcare. She connects the dots between finance, marketing and healthcare industry knowledge into deep healthcare cost expertise.

Her approach is multidisciplinary, collaborative, and integrated. Nan applies best-in-class business approaches utilized in high tech and other industries to the business of healthcare with a startling result: Common Sense!

Why Work with a Contrarian?

Because what you are doing is not working.

Nan Andrews Amish offers integrated expertise in leadership, strategy, marketing and communication and applies this expertise to the business of healthcare. She connects the dots between finance, marketing and healthcare industry knowledge into deep healthcare cost expertise.

Her approach is multidisciplinary, collaborative, and integrated. Nan applies best-in-class business approaches utilized in high tech and other industries to the business of healthcare with a startling result: Common Sense!


What does a contrarian do, exactly? A contrarian offers a new, "contrary to the conventional wisdom" perspective, allowing you to see things differently. Clearly, integrating disjointed facts into a cohesive whole. This contrarian connects-the-dots, to help you see the big picture.

Are you interested in addressing this most critical issue? Are you open to explore ideas other than the status quo? Don't you pride your self on assessing and taking calculated risks?

• Brainstorm innovative alternative approaches
• Facilitate win-win initiatives, avoid win-lose approaches
• Catalyze innovation with contrarian keynotes
• Connect-the-dots with cross-functional decision processes
• Differentiate your approach with branding, marketing
• Build customer and employee loyalty with benefits they really want
• Increase profits and decrease waste with alignment of leadership and communication with strategic initiatives