As U.S. healthcare continues forward, we are working alongside the nation’s self-funded employers, association plans and independent providers to deliver customized health benefit and value-based administration programs. Effectively, we are giving them power to control their bottom line.
Discover the value of custom and consumer-driven benefit plans, and position yourself to take full advantage of healthcare’s shift from volume to value-based payment models. Explore our dynamic programs and services and we’ll keep you a step ahead of America’s healthcare transformation.
Benefit Management, LLC. is a community of professionals who are dedicated to caring for the needs of healthcare customers and providing face-to-face service that fosters and maintains teamwork and accountability.
Our Leaders
Denise Wilkens
President
As the president of Benefit Management, Denise Wilkens leverages her visionary strategies for business growth and intrinsic leadership capabilities to promote success for the company and its clients. She joined the team in 2008 as senior vice president of accounting and human resources with executive oversight over all internal accounting, financial reporting and budgeting and has also been responsible for the financial management of multiple health plans. Among Denise’s greatest contributions has been her impact on an internal culture of excellence, driven in large part by the professional development and training opportunities she has made available to employees and leaders.
Heather Miessler
Senior Vice President, Operations
Heather has been a key leader within Benefit Management since the company’s 1995 inception. As the senior vice president of operations, she fills many functional roles and works across multiple areas of focus, including claims, customer service, plan building, stop loss and new client and vendor integrations. Additionally, Heather oversees the development and implementation of new tools aimed at improving her team’s efficiency and accuracy while also developing the policies that govern their efforts.
Mike Minton
Senior Vice President, Sales & Client Services
Since 2005, Mike Minton has served as Benefit Management’s senior vice president of sales, marketing and client services, and as such has been essential in driving the company’s consistent growth and positive reception. Working directly with prospective clients and their consultants, Mike focuses on helping them understand both the basics of self-funding and stop-loss quotes along with Benefit Management’s ability to provide targeted, efficient solutions. Mike’s work ensures a robust and consistent pipeline and also aids greatly in client retention.
Jackie Leary
Senior Vice President, Payment Transformation
With over 30 years of experience as a senior healthcare executive, Jackie Leary brings indispensible knowledge of several key areas, including: strategic network development; creation of large provider networks for all provider and product types; and the development of provider contracting, negotiation and reimbursement strategies, including capitation, bundles and value-based models. As the senior vice president of payment transformation with Benefit Management, she is focused on realigning the healthcare financial model in a way that reimburses providers for the quality, outcomes and patient satisfaction they achieve.