Cyndy’s Voice on Value

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, …

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 ContractTM 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 ContractingTM: 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.

SeeChange Health Launches First Insurance Company Focused on Wellness thru Value-Based Benefit Design

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

Industry Ally to the Center, SeeChange Health has launched the first insurance company built on prevention-wellness and value-based designs.  As an Industry Ally, SeeChange Health used the expert guidance and evidence from the Center in crafting their new product, now …

Nayer, Mahoney: Value-Based Design in Journal of Compensation and Benefits

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

Building on their consistent theme of value-based benefit designs linked to meaningful behavior change, Cyndy Nayer and Jack Mahoney, M.D. have released  evidence documenting the link from Value-Based Design to behavioral health.  Adherence is the sustainable goal when designers fully …

Health Promotion Practitioners’ Primer on Value-Based Design now available

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

John Riedel, of Riedel and Associates, and Cyndy Nayer (CEO of the Center for Health Value Innovation) have written a primer for Health Promotion Practitioners on value-based benefit designs.  The primer, published in the Art of Health Promotion (a section …