The eValue8 Health Plan Performance Assessment is an invaluable tool that we use to proactively engage our medical plan partners in ongoing discussions regarding plan performance and quality.
The Employer’s Role in Value-Based Purchasing
Without employer leadership that is fully engaged both at the individual company level and at the community level, the vision of value-based purchasing as a transformational strategy for health care delivery system will not be realized. No other stakeholder in the health care system has more at risk and more to gain than employers, from writing the checks that pay for health care services to depending on that very same system to help produce a company’s most competitive asset – a healthy and productive workforce.
For example, strategies to influence informed consumer choice include:
On the supplier side, the following MABGH Initiatives are direct steps employers can take in payment reform, moving health care to a value-based purchasing environment: