Institute on Health Care Costs and Solutions
Work Plan Objectives
To achieve its objectives, the Institute on Health Care Costs and Solutions will carry out the following program:
- Create a forum(s) to address specific issues that are important to controlling costs, improving quality and safety, and activating and motivating consumers.
- Develop a set of guiding principles to define the most useful approaches for employers to consider.
- Create a secure environment where employers can share best practices to identify, analyze and disseminate the most promising practical solutions to address the health care costs crisis from a business perspective.
- Broad areas to be addressed include:
- Health care strategies that help alleviate the cost challenges facing employers and employees, including changes in plan design;
- Consumer engagement through information and decision-support tools as well as innovative models of care and financing methods, through participation in the National Leadership Committee on Consumerism and Engagement (NLCCE);
- Improvement in the quality of care and the promotion of value by using benefit design to encourage and reward effective care and discourage ineffective care, through participation in the National Committee for Evidence-Based Benefit Design (NCEBBD);
- Collaboration between employers and health plans to improve patient safety and reduction of errors, reforming payment policies for primary care physicians, through participation in the National Leadership Committee on Employer and Health Plan Solutions (NLCEHPS);
- Identification and dissemination, using new technology, of medical treatments and diagnostic testing that are documented empirically to improve net health outcomes; and
- Methods for tying payments to evidence of superior outcomes or to higher volume and other structural measures of quality as proxies for superior outcomes until such metrics are developed and/or available.
- Use the forums and commissioned papers to develop alternative approaches and the business case for these alternatives, along with analysis of solutions, including how to pay for the sudden increase in new technologies.
Institute Objectives
Guiding Principles
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