Alternative Healthcare

As healthcare becomes more complicated, complex, and expensive,
some providers are getting frustrated and fed up. Others are
finding opportunity in the challenges and creating new ways of
delivering care, providing benefits, and making sense of the
industry for those who are stuck paying the premiums. Whether
it’s through holistic health and wellness programs or
sophisticated consulting firms, the business of healthcare is
booming for free-thinking alternative healthcare entrepreneurs in
Baton Rouge.


Phillipe Pucheau is president and CEO of PBM Solutions, a Baton
Rouge based consulting firm that helps companies reduce the cost
of their pharmacy benefits and teaches them how to use their
benefit plans in the most cost efficient way possible.


With prescription drug costs increasing some 40% over the past
decade, helping employers figure out a more efficient way to
provide pharmacy benefits to their employees is no small
accomplishment. PBM Solutions attacks the problem in several
different ways – by designing customized benefits plans, managing
plan utilization, auditing pharmacy claim history, and optimizing
the overall use of pharmacy benefits.


Philippe knows the industry well. Besides being a benefits
consultant and entrepreneur, he is a pharmacist himself with a
doctor of pharmacy degree and his own independent pharmacy in
Towne Centre, Apothecare, that specializes in patient care and
customer service.  


Dr. Lalitha Chalasani is founder of Aathma Wellness, a wellness
studio that provides classes, services, and experiences to teach
and maintain a healthy lifestyle for the whole self - Mind, Body
& Soul.


Aathma offers mindfulness-based stress reduction programs
including meditation, yoga, reiki, Aryuveda, and healthful
cooking classes.


Lalitha, a native of India, moved to the U.S. in 1990s and opened
her practice in Baton Rouge as an internal medicine doctor in
1998.  She founded Aathma Wellness in 2017 with the mission
of bringing greater awareness to people about the wellbeing of
their  Mind, Body and Soul and teaching them the power of
healing using alternative methods.


You can see photos from this show by Jill Lafleur on our website.
There's more lunchtime conversation about Baton Rouge healthcare
here.


 


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