Kent Boyer Email & Phone Number

St. Louis County, Missouri, United States

United States

Chief Growth Officer Pacific Northwest.Responsible for practice acquisitions, hospital and systems contracting, medicare and medicaid product development and marketing.

Little Rock, Arkansas

Greater Chicago Area

• Led strategic review and reorganization of wholly owned Wells Fargo Bank subsidiary organized as Third Party Administrator (TPA) into SBU offering a variety of employee benefits products to employers through the.
• Exceeded the employee benefits SBU growth goal by 25%.
• Dramatically increased revenue with a unified value proposition and targeted growth plan for carrier partners.
• Divested unprofitable noncore businesses, an initiative that increased shareholder value, narrowed focus on profitable core business and doubled ROI.
• Concluded key broker acquisitions and integrated their books of business into the proprietary technology platform.

Greater Denver Area

• Recruited by CEO to establish, manage and grow national healthcare insurer’s Specialty Risk division. Grew the business to one million members within 3 years, using alternative distribution channels for existing.
• Added over 1 million members in under 3 years.
• Increased product penetration and expanded the company’s national footprint through acquisition and integration of multiple TPAs, PPOs and reinsurance carriers including health insurer joint ventures.
• Played a lead role in delivering superior returns to shareholders through company sale and integration into Cigna Health.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Shared expertise in business planning, business development and capital acquisition with a portfolio of clients in the biotech, pharmacy management and healthcare insurance markets.
• Consulted with national insurer and TPA regarding strategy for consumer-directed health product.
• Executed the merger of two national underwriting and sales organizations for national insurer/TPA.
• Served on biotech client’s board of directors.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Senior Executive HealthCare Interchange, Inc., a healthcare technology firm a initially founded by several large health care insurers to facilitate Medicare EDI that grew into a leading electronic claims clearinghouse.
• Created a suite of provider-based BI tools enabling national insurers, TPAs and Pharmacy Benefit Managers analyze cost metrics to gauge quality of care, assess value and manage costs. Ultimately sold this technology.
• Developed strategy and business plan propelling 33% greater utilization by hospitals and physicians.
• Leveraged dominant market position to influence company sale at a greater-than-expected return.
• Developed Medicare application for technology used by two large health systems to measure and manage participating providers.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Designed and executed growth initiatives for the national group health and life business. Oversaw product management, marketing communications and sales support.
• Led partnering strategy with 3 large healthcare provider systems.
• Established profitable risk share partnerships with multiple TPAs.
• Increased sales of dental healthcare offering by repositioning/recontracting dental network.
• Drove significantly higher utilization by upgrading electronic interface.

Greater St. Louis Area

Manufactured and distributed telecom/data network technology, equipment and accessories, primarily into the higher education market.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Advised health insurers and providers regarding managed care opportunities, challenges and risks.
• Managed client relationships including MetLife, United Health Care, BJC Health Systems and Washington University.
• Positioned large regional Medicare DME and home infusion firm for profitable sale.

Greater New York City Area

• Chosen for national role based on 12-month success with flagship HMO: HealthCare Network of St. Louis.
• Led national provider contracting effort forming the basis of 20 new health plans within 3 years.
• Developed and standardized the national HMO, PPO, POS and Medicare product lines.