The guide from the Leapfrog Group helps employers meet their health care goals by providing contract language and sample letters to insurers and third-party administrators.
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Improving Quality, Lowering Costs: Employers looking to use their purchasing
power to improve health care and lower its costs have released a guide intended
to help employers become better consumers. The Purchaser Guide to Value Driven
Health Care was released in February by a consortium of business groups that
have endorsed the Bush Administration’s “four cornerstones” approach to
improving health care that the Department of Health and Human Services outlined
in November. The four principles include promoting the use of health information
technology, pushing medical providers to measure and publish health care quality
and price information, and promoting high-quality, efficient health care.
The guide, which is available at www.leapfroggroup.org, helps employers
meet these goals by providing contract language and sample letters to insurers
and third-party administrators.
Jeremy Smerd is a Workforce Management staff writer based in New York. E-mail editors@workforce.com to comment.
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