October 15, 2009

Health Plan Capabilities to Support Value Based Benefit Design

The researchers Margaret Houy, JD, MBA, senior consultant with Bailit Health Purchasing, LLC, with contributions from Michael Joseph, senior consultant with Bailit, and Laura Jacobus-Kantor, Ph.D., an assistant research professor with the Center for Integrated Behavioral Health Policy at George Washington University Medical Center used the eValue8 request for information tool developed by the non-profit National Business Coalition on Health. They queried national and regional health plans about their capabilities to support value-based benefit design, which is the explicit use of employee rewards and out-of-pocket contributions to create consumer incentives for adoption of one or more high-value services, healthy lifestyles, or use of high-performance care providers.