Center for Health Value Innovation">Center for Health Value Innovation

Focused on employers as benefit plan sponsors, we build health value into population health management, showing better plan design and engagement of the covered lives in managing their health

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Nayer on Health Innovation: Impacts Not Inputs

Sunday, March 13th, 2011

Innovation comes in many ways, down many avenues. For years I’ve been intrigued by the concept of travel to the stars—from watching John Glenn’s first lift off, through StarTrek and StarWars, and later to John Glenn’s 2^nd lift off. …

Fixing America’s Health Care Reimbursement System-Klepper

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

Pay attention, here, to Brian’s assessment of the disconnects and friction in the health care system due to reimbursement strategy. You’ll find that his call for transparency, equalization for outcomes, and dismantling of outdated payment systems aligns quite well with …

Jack Mahoney Receives PBMI’s Rx Benefit Design Award for CHVI

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

I’m delighted to share the news of Jack’s award! You know that Jack is the former corporate medical director of Pitney Bowes, Chief Medical Officer and co-founder in the Center, co-author of the Center’s book Leveraging Health, and co-author on …

CHVI: Value-Based Design 2010 Survey Results Are Published

CHVI produces report with Buck Consultants

Sunday, February 13th, 2011

The results are in, and they are everything we hoped for! VBD delivers for 176 companies, 4 million covered lives. 87% of the levers are for prevention and wellness, and companies share how they measure success, what levers they use, …

Quit the RUC by Klepper and Kibbe

We can't expect to solve the problem with the same thinking that caused the problem....Einstein

Monday, January 24th, 2011

If we want innovation, write the dynamic duo, then we have to get rid of the impediments. In this article for Kaiser Health News, they detail the problems with the current methods for paying for primary care, and the lack …

E Pluribus Unum

Friday, January 14th, 2011

Watching the President in Tuscon on Wedsnesday evening, I was struck by how far afield we have gone from a united federation. Why is this important to our mission and our Center? Because Christina-Taylor Green is the child of each …

Nayer Accentuates the Outcomes-Based Contract^TM that Delivers Dividends in VBBD

Saturday, October 30th, 2010

CIGNA and Merck Help Customers Better Manage Diabetes. Model Program Improves Health Outcomes and Reduces Overall Costs and Savings could be as much as $8,000 per person when medications are taken properly, according to the press release.

Dividends in …

Outcomes-Based Contracting^TM: The Value-Based Framework for Optimal Accountability

The Value-Based Framework for Optimal Accountability

Monday, August 16th, 2010

The importance of aligning incentives cannot be overstated: for health status to improve all of the stakeholders must be focused on producing a healthier person or persons, which is an investment strategy.