Fallon Community Health Plan and Allocadia

The Las Vegas Introduction

We met Heather (Senior Manager of Communications) and Melissa (Director of Sales & Service Communications) from Fallon Community Health Plan at the DMA tradeshow in Las Vegas last October [you can read our blog post about the tradeshow here]. They saw us in the program guide and they dropped by for a chat around their budgeting requirements, and we're happy to report that they have since signed-on to use Allocadia to manage their corporate communications budgets.

Centralizing budget management

Their team provides corporate communications services for approximately 20 other departments within Fallon Community Health Plan. "In the past, budget spend related to corporate communications, such as printing and postage, was held across the different teams in our organization, "said Heather. "Now we're responsible for managing this budget, and we wanted to get organized as we were now accountable for that budget spend."

Getting a complete picture

Heather and Melissa are using Allocadia to track invoices coming in to stay on top of budget status - they login a few times a week to keep track of their budget. In the future, they'll be using Allocadia to start planning their yearly budgets. "Before we weren't using anything, and it was hard to see how much we were spending and where, it was not pretty! Now we all have access to up-to-date budget status online."

Pie chart reports give a visual breakdown

They manage five large budgets and have sub-categories within in each budget related to specific corporate communications projects. The team likes how you can access visual pie chart reports that automatically show the breakdown of spend by project. "It gives us great insight into our budget, helping us make informed budget decisions," said Heather.

About Fallon Community Health Plan

Based in Massachusetts, Fallon Community Health Plan is a nationally recognized, not-for-profit health care services organization that is both an insurer and a provider of care. www.fchp.org