UMB’s Dennis Triplett Invited to Speak at National Health Care Conference
Dennis Triplett, president of UMB Healthcare Services, a division of UMB Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: UMBF), has been invited to speak at America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Institute 2007 Conference in Las Vegas June 20-22. Institute 2007, AHIP’s annual meeting, is known as the nation’s leading health care conference. A variety of business and health care leaders will address important topics including consumer choice products, care management, and personal health records.
The topic of the presentation, “Next Generation Consumer-directed Products: Integrating Financial Corporations into Health Care Products,” will cover the innovations and creative partnerships between employers, health insurers and financial institutions. Triplett, along with panel members Robyn Bartlett-Andersen, vice president of First Data Healthcare Services, and Bill Wing, vice president, Healthe of Cerner Corporation, will discuss how financial institutions are working with health insurers to provide an integrated, multi-prong approach to health care benefits.
Triplett, a charter member of the HSA Council for the American Bankers Association and the American Bankers Insurance Association, and a board member of the Employer’s Council for Flexible Compensation (ECFC), has more than 30 years of banking experience and has directed the development of UMB’s financial services to the health care industry.
Bartlett-Andersen has nearly 30 years of experience and is responsible for directing First Data’s health care initiative, and has successfully led the development, implementation, and execution of several innovative health care processing solutions. Wing has more than 17 years of healthcare experience, including strategic planning, process/performance improvement, finance, hospital operations, health plan operations, managed care and physician practice management.
UMB Financial Corporation is a multi-bank holding company headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., offering complete banking, asset management, health spending solutions and related financial services to both individual and business customers nationwide. Its banking subsidiaries own and operate 138 banking centers throughout Missouri, Illinois, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Arizona. Subsidiaries of the holding company and the lead bank, UMB Bank, n.a., include an investment services group based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a trust management company in South Dakota, and single-purpose companies that deal with brokerage services and insurance.