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Noecker New Vice President, Key and National Accounts, For Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Contact:
Angela Feig
515.245.4551
feigab@wellmark.com

(Des Moines, Iowa) -- Cathy Noecker has been promoted vice president, Key and National Account Sales, at Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield.  In this role Noecker has responsibility for:

• National Accounts retention and sales support for plans with 750+ covered employee lives
• Key Accounts retention and sales support for 101- to 749-life plans;
• Inter Plan and Marketing Information Unit, which supports relationship with other Blue plans and the Consortium Health Plan; prepares requests for proposal (RFPs) and bid solicitations; manages Association-level sales initiatives, and
• Labor, as liaison to labor unions to support sale and retention of Taft-Hartley business (insurance purchased directly by labor unions with labor contributions) and other labor affiliated business

Noecker was graduated from Central College with a degree in Business Management.  She holds several professional designations, including Certified Health Consultant (CHC), and Fellow, Academy for Healthcare Management (FAHM).  She is a member of the Terrace Hill Foundation and serves on the board of the National Labor Office of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.

Wellmark, Inc. (www.wellmark.com) does business as Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa.  Wellmark and its subsidiaries and affiliated companies, including Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Dakota and Wellmark Health Plan of Iowa, Inc., insure or pay health benefit claims for more than two million customers in Iowa and South Dakota.  Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa, Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of South Dakota, and Wellmark Health Plan of Iowa, Inc. are independent licensees of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.

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