Chaddsford Planning Associates, LLC is a management and marketing firm that provides consulting assistance in 3 distinct practice areas: technical assistance, marketing & communications, and health care.

Our clients are drawn from all sectors, including large corporations, small companies, trade associations and state and federal government agencies. This experience has included public relations, development of marketing plans, new product development and program outreach.

Through our technical assistance practice we have provided planning services on more than 30 large scale systems integration projects, helped develop and launch debit card products, and assisted on mergers and acquisitions.

Our PR/marketing practice has represented a number of clients in the electronic payments industry, achieved first-tier placements and greatly increased news coverage.

And our healthcare practice continues to provide marketing communications for a variety of clients that include hospitals, IT vendors and trade groups.

Chaddsford Planning Associates is a certified woman-owned business in Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. For more information, click here.

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Newsworthy

Government agencies and card issuing banks for years have been trying to combine many different payment and service applications like Electronic Benefits Transfer, or EBT, on one card. While many have tried, few have succeeded. A new white paper by Chaddsford Planning provides a roadmap to success when designing a multi-application card—adoption of a set of “Best Practices in Multi-Application Card Design.”

Converting government payments from Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) to Electronic Payment Cards (EPC): What You Should Know. More and more state agencies are considering switching their EBT cash payments to a network-branded prepaid debit card. But there are a number of issues like surcharges, regulation, and customer service to consider before making the move. A new white paper by Chaddsford Planning Associates helps you sort through them.

Taking the Paper Out of Paperwork
How Electronic Administration Can Savethe U.S.Health System Billions

An Education and Outreach Plan, including a Social Media component, is a cost-effective way to improve results in such areas as cases opened, paternity establishment and collections in the Child Support Enforcement program.

How can you improve outcomes in the Child Support Enforcement program? A new White Paper shows how your Outreach program, often overlooked, can incorporate new Social Media technologies and be a cost effective way to improve results.

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