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FIT DesignTM Copay/Coinsurance Cost Impact Model for Diabetes

Assess the influence of various copay/coinsurance scenarios on adherence rates to diabetes medications and total medical costs.

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Benchmarking Tool

Benchmark your health management initiatives. Use the Healthcare Continuum Benchmarking Map.

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Case Studies

Learn how others are improving health and decreasing the costs of healthcare with value-based health management programs.

City of Asheville Pitney Bowes Diabetes Ten City Challenge
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The Value of Benchmarking

Benchmarking is:

  • The process of improving performance by continuously identifying, understanding, and adapting outstanding practices and processes found inside and outside the organization.1
  • A catalyst for implementing innovative practices that improve the total value of health management initiatives within the organization.
  • More than setting standards and making comparisons. It helps to align employee health and productivity with the business goals of the organization.

Important Reasons to Benchmark

  1. Accelerate and manage change.
  2. Overcome complacency and create a sense of time urgency.
  3. Establish cross-functional goals (e.g., benefits, health promotion, disability, employee assistance program, etc.).
  4. Look "outside of the box" by studying best practice organizations.
  5. Make informed decisions.

At a minimum, your efforts should establish 3 benchmarking categories:

  1. Internal: Set standards (goal and objectives). Manage variation. Track progress.
  2. External: Evaluate employers within your industry. Establish a context for comparison.
  3. Best practice: Identify the “best in class.” Establish goals for internal improvement.

Learn more about the benchmarking information and tools you can use in your organization:

Reference:

  1. APQC. White paper for senior management based on the internationally acclaimed study organizing and managing benchmarking. Benchmarking: leveraging best-practice strategies. 1994-2006. www.apqc.org/portal/apqc/ksn?paf_gear_id=contentgearhome
    &paf_dm=full&pageselect=include&docid=112421. Accessed 8/21/07.
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