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What Is Value-Based Health Management?

Value-Based Health Management (VBHM) is a strategic approach to employee benefits that integrates the following practices:

• Employee health benefits
• Health promotion/wellness
• Occupational health and safety
• Employee assistance programs
• Health and productivity management
• Disability management
• Disease management

VBHM Defined

VBHM: The planning, design, implementation, administration, and evaluation of health management practices that are grounded in evidence-based guidelines across the healthcare continuum.

Within the VBHM model, initiatives focus primarily on innovative practices that demonstrate the greatest total value through:

• Value-based benefit design
• Primary prevention
• Risk intervention
• Chronic disease management

A critical component of VBHM is the elimination and/or reduction of cost and/or access barriers. This is achieved through strategic investments in health management practices. These practices have demonstrated a greater total value to the organization—reduced trends in direct healthcare spending combined with reductions in productivity-related losses due to:

• Sick days
• Disability
• Workers’ compensation
• Employee turnover
• Presenteeism

Review the monograph Total Value, Total Return^™ and the seven rules that serve as the foundation for creating a value-based health management strategy.

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