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NBCH Action Briefs
NBCH is pleased to announce a new series of action briefs developed to support the critical role purchasers and purchaser-led coalitions play as change agents in improving health and health care in employee populations and the community at large. Each action brief will center on a specific topic of interest highlighting why employers should care; using eValue8 data to better explain the role of health plans around the issue; and providing action steps and strategies employers can take to improve health and health care delivery.
March 2012 - Patient-Centered Medical Homes
The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is an important strategy within larger efforts to revamp the way care is delivered and paid for. By centering an individual's health care experience around strong primary care, PCMH seeks to bring order to a health care system that is dangerously fragemented. |
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February 2012 - Diabetes: Costs and Opportunities
Diabetes is epidemic. Over eight percent of the U.S. workforce suffers from this disease, and a quarter of them aren't even aware that they have this condition. The number of diabetes patients is rapidly rising considering that 79 million adults over 20 years of age have pre-diabetes. |
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For appropriate candidates, bariatric surgery (e.g., gastric bypass and gastric banding) has proven to be one of the most effective and long lasting treatments for morbid obesity and the resolution of comorbidities, including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and sleep apnea. An estimated 220,000 people in the United States had the surgery in 2008 alone, and more employers are considering the value of bariatric surgery for their eligible employees. |
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About one-third of U.S. adults1 and approximately 17% of children and adolescents are obese2 (a body mass index or BMI over 30). Employers must act now to mitigate the cause for overwhelming health care costs and loss of productivity associated with obesity. Employers can play a key role in improving the health and well-being of their workforce.
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September 2011 - Hospital Patient Safety
Hospital-acquired conditions, readmissions and serious reportable events are significant issues impacting employee health and the health care claims costs incurred by employers. For example, $30 billion is lost annually due to avoidable costs such as longer hospital stays. Employers can play a key role in improving patient safety and reducing preventable occurrences.
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An advanced primary care model in which physicians actively work with patients to help them manage and improve their health status. Also referred to as ""patient-centered medical home."" Definitions of medical home vary, but typically include features such as care coordination, use of healthcare information technology, convenient communication (e.g. email), tracking and acting on gaps in care, and open scheduling.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics defines productivity as “…the value of goods and services produced in a period of time, divided by the hours of labor used to produce them.”
