Mercer today announced the launch of a suite of solutions to help
employers navigate the growing market for value-based
care,* one of the core strategies that will drive the transformation
from a fee-for-service to a fee-for value health care delivery model.
Millions of Americans already receive their health care through a
value-based care model, while health care reimbursement via value-based
care is supposed to more than double by 2020 (20% to 46%)**.
Using proprietary and industry data as well as innovative technology,
Mercer has developed a way to help employers assess what value-based
care approaches are right for them, what opportunities exist in key
local markets to support these approaches, and how to implement and
communicate appropriately with the target employee populations.
“We see value-based care as a potentially game-changing approach to
achieve the much discussed ‘triple aim’ of reducing health care costs,
increasing the quality of care and improving the patient experience,”
said Molly Loftus, Mercer’s Chief Health Care Actuary. “We believe,
however, that value-based care can only deliver on these goals if
programs are not only carefully and properly structured and deployed,
but also managed at the local-market level – the place where health care
actually happens.”
Mercer’s new full suite of value-based care solutions includes:
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Mercer Health Care Value Finder™ – an iPad app that helps
identify ‘hot spots’ by market and then aligns available value-based
care models to each in order to help clients define their opportunity
market or markets
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Mercer Map Your Course™ – a Q&A assessment that helps map the
value-based care starting point for a given employer
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Market Profiles – market by market ‘deep dives’ that describe
the opportunities and challenges of implementing value-based care in a
particular location in terms of care hot spots, marcro-economic
dynamics and available care models
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Market Action Map – an outline of activities needed to take
place in order for an employer to finalize and execute a given
value-based care strategy
In addition to these resources, Mercer has created a comprehensive
summary of the national carriers’ value-based care strategies and
approaches along with RFP, communications and measurement support tools.
To learn more about Mercer’s point of view on value-based care and the
related solutions offered to clients, please visit http://www.mercer.us/services/health/value-based-care.html.
*Note to editors – Mercer defines value-based care as the shift in
health care organizational and payment models from volume (“do more”) to
value (“do better”).
** Source: Proprietary Oliver Wyman analysis 2014
About Mercer
Mercer is a global consulting leader in talent, health, retirement and
investments. Mercer helps clients around the world advance the health,
wealth and performance of their most vital asset – their people.
Mercer’s more than 20,000 employees are based in more than 40 countries
and the firm operates in over 130 countries. Mercer is a wholly owned
subsidiary of Marsh
& McLennan Companies (NYSE:MMC), a global professional services
firm offering clients advice and solutions in the areas of risk,
strategy and people. With 57,000 employees worldwide and annual revenue
exceeding $13 billion, Marsh & McLennan Companies is also the parent
company of Marsh,
a leader in insurance broking and risk management; Guy
Carpenter, a leader in providing risk and reinsurance intermediary
services; and Oliver
Wyman, a leader in management consulting. For more information,
visit www.mercer.com.
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