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  • Total Value, Total Return
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  • Barriers to Value
  • Understanding the Total Cost of Healthcare
  • The Economic Value of Health Management Programs
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  • Creating Value Through FIT Design
  • The Seven Steps of BeneFIT Design
  • The FIT Design Assessment
  • The WorkScripts Program
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  • The Asheville Project, Asthma
  • The Asheville Project, Diabetes
  • Pitney Bowes
  • The Diabetes Ten City Challenge
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  • News Library
  • Podcasts

Mission Statement

The Center for Value-Based Health Management provides employers with tools and resources to strategically plan, design, implement, and evaluate their investment in employee health.

What Is the Center for Value-Based Health Management?

The Center for Value-Based Health Management (CenterVBHM) is a resource to assist employers, health plans, and benefit consultants in their healthcare benefit considerations. The goal is to improve employee health and reduce healthcare costs.

The CenterVBHM:

• Provides information, tools, resources, and best practices to help make better informed decisions in the design and implementation of employee health management initiatives.
• Requires decision-makers to base their decision process on total value rather than focusing on cost alone.

Organizations are challenged to:

• View employee health as a strategic investment in human assets.
• Proactively manage employee health from an integrated population management perspective—across the entire healthcare continuum.
• Guide health benefit design decisions and associated programs on integrated data sets that represent health and productivity-related measures.
• Reduce and/or eliminate potential barriers within health benefit design (e.g., high copays, limited access to preventive services) to interventions that have demonstrated total value:
  • Reduced medical utilization
  • Improved clinical and health outcomes
  • Improved productivity-related factors such as sick days, disability, presenteeism, and reduced employee turnover
• Manage the “healthy population” through primary prevention and lifestyle management.
• Reduce "at-risk" populations through innovative risk intervention programs.
• Support medical consumerism through appropriate information and support services.
• Manage chronic diseases through evidence-based treatments.
• Select incentives based on proven efficacy in changing behavior (e.g., improving adherence).
• Encourage and incentivize adherence to recommended medical- and lifestyle-related regimens.
• Define and measure program outcomes based on a total value proposition rather than direct costs alone.
• Periodically benchmark current health management initiatives against best practices.

The CenterVBHM was established by GlaxoSmithKline as a central repository for employers interested in learning how to improve employee health and reduce healthcare costs.

Information and Support Tools for Decision-Makers

This site contains a growing body of information and support tools. These tools will enable organizations to:

• Understand and become better informed about value-based health management and value-based benefit design.
• Benchmark current health management practices. (Coming in Spring 2008)
• Learn from best-practice organizations.
• Provide the business rationale for value-based health management initiatives.

By sharing benchmarking information, your organization will help the Center become a valuable health management resource. (Coming in Spring 2008)