Joseph Wild Jr.

"We're exploring it to see if the customers want it," said Joseph Wild, senior vice president for sales and product development at Independent Health.

"We're trying to build products and services to help service the small employer group," said Joseph Wild, senior vice president.

Independent Health's Joseph Wild said the HMO introduced the debit cards to its members with FSAs on July 1 and he expects the use of the accounts to increase.

"Firepond helps us offer our customers the best and most reliable solutions for their benefit needs by giving our account executives immediate answers to complex benefit design questions," said Joseph Wild Jr., senior vice president, sales and product development at Independent Health.

"At Independent Health, our goal is to provide high quality health care coverage and to build strong relationships with our members, our brokers and our community," stated Joseph Wild, Senior Vice President, Sales and Product Development for Independent Health Association, Inc."Firepond's Insurance SalesPerformer will allow us to reduce the cost of generating new member sales kits for individuals and employers.The system will empower our direct sales team, help keep our broker relationships strong and allow us to serve our members and prospects far more efficiently."

Firepond's Insurance SalesPerformer is comprised of three primary business applications that can be implemented independently, or as a Suite for higher overall efficiency:

Broker Services: A selling interface designed for brokers and internal sales representatives that provides support throughout the sales process including prospect management, product configuration, pricing, rating and quoting, proposals, submissions for enrollment, and renewal notifications.

Reliance on prescriptions for conditions that could be corrected with lifestyle changes is big, said Joseph Wild, senior vice president of sales and product development at Independent Health.The managed care company has convinced 51 percent of members to use lower-cost generic drugs instead of brand names, but the overall expenditure on pharmaceuticals could improve if people ate better and got some exercise, he said.

Similarly, BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York, has tracked an increase in drug expenditures, including $20 million spent on injectible pharmaceuticals for chronic diseases such as arthritis and Crohn's disease, and cancer.

INDEPENDENT HEALTH APPOINTS JOSEPH WILD AS SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, SALES AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
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INDEPENDENT HEALTH APPOINTS JOSEPH WILD AS SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, SALES AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Buffalo, N.Y. - Joseph Wild of West Falls has joined Independent Health as senior vice president, sales and product development.Wild is responsible for planning the sales strategies of the commercial and government health care products as well as the design and development of new health benefit programs.

Wild said, "My goal is to prepare Independent Health's portfolio of products for the future and to ensure that our product planning includes increased awareness of our customers' needs."

Wild has 14 years of experience in the health insurance and managed care industry, most recently as General Manager, Upstate New York, for Aetna/US Healthcare, where he led the expansion of that company's market into the upstate New York region.A native of Lancaster, New York, Wild is a graduate of St. Bonaventure University and served for three years in the U.S. Army.

"Independent Health is excited to be at the forefront of a new generation of health care options with our iDirect HSA plans," said Joseph Wild, Jr., Independent Health's senior vice president, sales and product development.

"We're trying to protect the pool and meet the needs of the customers," said Joseph Wild, Independent Health senior vice president of sales and product development.

"MBI has been an important partner in our growth as an award-winning healthcare services provider," said Joseph Wild, senior vice president of sales and product development at Independent Health, a full-service health-solutions company providing health benefits and services to more than 385,000 members in Western New York and throughout the U.S. "As Independent Health looks to expand its offerings into health savings accounts, MBI and Mellon's relationship represents an extremely attractive coupling of two recognized domain leaders in the burgeoning self-funded and consumer-directed healthcare market."