"Thanks to SAS, we have seen a tremendous reduction in false positives. That's a significant cost savings." Rick Pro, vice president, Healthcare Informatics Research and Analysis, Highmark Inc.

Do your rules-based solutions sufficiently analyze your customer data and zero in on individuals at risk for future health problems?

Take advantage of this valuable Webcast featuring Rick Pro of Highmark Inc., the nation's 10th largest health insurer, and learn how advanced analytics are redefining rules-based solutions to improve identification of at-risk individuals and more efficiently align patients and health interventions.

Leading the Curve in Condition Management – the third Webcast in our series on analytics for enhanced fraud detection and disease management – will explain how new technology solutions from SAS can help insurers improve data exploitation, risk stratification, program design and outcomes reporting to reduce medical costs. SAS analytics improve the effectiveness of disease management programs and identify gaps in intervention methodologies.

We hope you will take time to view this Webcast and learn how Highmark uses cutting-edge decision tree methodology to improve its rules-based approach to interventions – and how these new technologies reduce Highmark's medical costs.

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Speakers

Rick Pro
Rick Pro is vice president, Healthcare Informatics, Research and Analysis at Highmark Inc., the 10th largest U.S. health insurer and the fourth largest among the "Blues" plans. Pro has been with Highmark for 16 years and has held management positions in business and applied research units. He leads the strategic analysis, research and decision support function that supports the Highmark health insurance business, its external business partners, and subsidiary companies – providing a variety of employer, financial, medical management and provider analysis, data mining, reporting and predictive modeling capabilities.

Pro holds a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Pittsburgh, a master's degree in materials science and engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a fellow of the Academy for Healthcare Management. Pro has been an active user of SAS software since 1988.

Richard B. Ingraham
Richard Ingraham is senior healthcare industry strategist in SAS' Health and Life Sciences Division. Experienced in both profit and not-for-profit organizations, Ingraham has expertise in care and case management analysis and reporting, budgeting, resource management, provider performance, process engineering, and performance benchmarking, and internal control projects within the health insurance arena.