(front row, left to right)
Matt Tritz, Lockton Companies
Ravi Govila, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City

Tierney Grasser, Olathe Health System
Bruce Bagley, M.D., TransforMED

Jean Hansen, Kansas City Internal Medicine

Rick Kahle, Lockton Companies (co-host, co-chair and co-sponsor)
Eric Justin, M.D., Lockton Companies (co-host and co-sponsor)

(back rows, left to right)

Joseph Galate, M.D., Metro Spine & Rehabilitation

Amy Stehli, Metro Spine & Rehabilitation

Karen Daugherty, Lockton Companies

Brian Burns, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City

Kristie Arthur, Mosaic Life Care

Danette Wilson, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City (co-chair, co-sponsor)

Bob Finuf, Children's Mercy Pediatric Care Network

Ryan Mullins, M.D., Liberty Hospital

Year One in the Brave New World of American Health Care

When Ingram’s started its Industry Outlook series 15 years ago, we worried that an annual review of a given industry just might get repetitive. Then Sept. 11 happened, and we were reminded of just how susceptible
to change even the most bedrock of industries could be.
As we gleaned in our annual Healthcare and Insurance assembly this past month, no industry has been subject to more change more profoundly than health care. We were fortunate to have as guides Rick Kahle, president of the benefits division at Lockton Companies, and Danette Wilson, chief marketing executive at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City. Kahle and Wilson ably chaired the assembly, which was sponsored by
their organizations.
As Rick Kahle explained, Lockton has added significant high-level re-sources on the compliance and analytics side to help its clients make sense of the Affordable Care Act, the source of the industry’s current unease. “We’re trying to help bring as much certainty as we can to a very uncertain environment,” said Kahle.