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4145 Washington Blvd.
Suite 300
Indianapolis, IN 46205-2616
Phone: (317) 283-2780
email: nlamkin@sbcglobal.net
Suite 300
Indianapolis, IN 46205-2616
Phone: (317) 283-2780
email: nlamkin@sbcglobal.net
| Indiana Employers Quality Health Alliance |
eValue8 Health Plan Evaluations
The National Business Coalition on Health makes available to member coalitions a
program of rigorous evaluation of local health plans. Known as eValue8 this progam
is a nationally recognized health care purchasing and quality improvement tool
developed by coalitions to help health plans better understand the needs and desires
of employers and to help members make better health care purchasing decisions.
Using a standard request for information, eValue8 asks health plans to submit
information about clinical quality and administrative efficiency so purchasers can
compare plans against one another and against national benchmarks. Hundreds of
benchmarks are gathered in critical areas. Once the health plans have electronically
submitted their data, a certified eValue8 scoring team verifies the information to
ensure that all the information is accurate and comparable. Purchasers take the
information to meetings with each of the health plans to discuss strengths, best
practices and opportunities for improvement. Employers working through coalitions
also use the information to discuss community-wide opportunities for health
improvement through collaboration.
Employers ultimately use the information gathered through eValue8 - the comparative
charts and the knowledge gained through the site visits - to compare value, based on
their own selection criteria. Some employers use the information to negotiate pricing
with health plans. Some employers use the information to set employee premiums,
with higher quality health plans costing less. Equally important to pricing, employers
working with coalitions use the information and the subsequent feedback with health
plans as a unique opportunity to stimulate market-wide improvements in health care
quality.
IEQHA has previously engaged in eValue8 for several years. However, because of the
limited number of employers currently in the coalition, no clear evidence of an
expanded clientelle, and the necessity to do similar evaluations for many other
parites, no health plan in Indiana currently participates. This is one of the major
reasons for our current effort to expand the Alliance throughout the State. (See
Coming Soon to Your Community and Indiana Reform and Statewide Recruitment)
For more information go to:
The National Business Coalition on Health makes available to member coalitions a
program of rigorous evaluation of local health plans. Known as eValue8 this progam
is a nationally recognized health care purchasing and quality improvement tool
developed by coalitions to help health plans better understand the needs and desires
of employers and to help members make better health care purchasing decisions.
Using a standard request for information, eValue8 asks health plans to submit
information about clinical quality and administrative efficiency so purchasers can
compare plans against one another and against national benchmarks. Hundreds of
benchmarks are gathered in critical areas. Once the health plans have electronically
submitted their data, a certified eValue8 scoring team verifies the information to
ensure that all the information is accurate and comparable. Purchasers take the
information to meetings with each of the health plans to discuss strengths, best
practices and opportunities for improvement. Employers working through coalitions
also use the information to discuss community-wide opportunities for health
improvement through collaboration.
Employers ultimately use the information gathered through eValue8 - the comparative
charts and the knowledge gained through the site visits - to compare value, based on
their own selection criteria. Some employers use the information to negotiate pricing
with health plans. Some employers use the information to set employee premiums,
with higher quality health plans costing less. Equally important to pricing, employers
working with coalitions use the information and the subsequent feedback with health
plans as a unique opportunity to stimulate market-wide improvements in health care
quality.
IEQHA has previously engaged in eValue8 for several years. However, because of the
limited number of employers currently in the coalition, no clear evidence of an
expanded clientelle, and the necessity to do similar evaluations for many other
parites, no health plan in Indiana currently participates. This is one of the major
reasons for our current effort to expand the Alliance throughout the State. (See
Coming Soon to Your Community and Indiana Reform and Statewide Recruitment)
For more information go to:
| IEQHA Major Initiatives |
Background
The eValue8 tool was created
concerned health care purchasers.
Fifteen years ago, several
coalitions and large employers
across the country gathered to
develop a way where purchasers
could buy health care and
evaluate health plans based on
real value, not just on price.
The concept of quality was
introduced and has become the
overarching principle in the
eValue8 buying process. More
than 100 health plans across the
country now participate in this
process.
The eValue8 tool was created
concerned health care purchasers.
Fifteen years ago, several
coalitions and large employers
across the country gathered to
develop a way where purchasers
could buy health care and
evaluate health plans based on
real value, not just on price.
The concept of quality was
introduced and has become the
overarching principle in the
eValue8 buying process. More
than 100 health plans across the
country now participate in this
process.
Working to improve the quality of health care in Indiana.
