Mercer's Value-Based Care Strategy 

The US healthcare system is inefficient, and employers like you have an opportunity to drive transformation in the healthcare market by focusing on a few key strategies. Many employers are looking beyond cost-shifting to focus on paying for value and better quality. New provider collaborations, such as Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), increase the visibility of quality. ACOs can change provider incentives to reward quality instead of quantity.

30% of US healthcare spending is considered wasteful. When it comes to their healthcare, consumers will pay more to get more, but “you get what you pay for” isn’t always the case. Since employers provide healthcare benefits to promote wellbeing, make sure your people are getting appropriate value from their care.

As health plans race to put ACOs and other value-based reimbursement models in place, employers need to make sure they are actually producing results. Based on our healthcare market research and forecasts for the healthcare industry, Mercer recommends you:

One of the biggest questions we hear around value-based care is, “how?” Employers often don’t have the critical information they need to decide where or how they might take advantage of value-based care within their organizations.

In response to that need, Mercer has developed several solutions to help. First, we have pioneered a data analytics approach to value-based care. To achieve this, we have built a collection of granular data about markets and providers across the country. And we have assembled data analytics teams, including clinicians, actuaries, and data analysts, with the expertise to tailor solutions to individual clients.

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