Call in code 138552 moderator 927346 - Center for Employer Engagement Call Agenda: Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 3:00 PM EST

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Center for Employer Engagement

Wednesday, February 9, 2011
3:00pm-4:00pm EST
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Call Agenda

I.  Introductions/Welcome 

Co-Chairs: Duane Putnam, Pfizer, Inc.; Bruce Sherman, MD, Whirlpool Corporation; Robert Dribbon, Merck & Co., Inc.

II. Update on March 30th Stakeholder Meeting  Ronald Reagan Building, International Trade Center Atrium Ballroom 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20004

III.     Bruce Sherman, MD  CMD  Whirlpool Corporation - Update on PCMH Metrics work for employers and other purchasers (Measuring the impact of PCMH on healthcare utilization, cost, quality, absenteeism, presenteeism and employee health status.)  (see attachment)

IV.     The Center for Emloyer Engagement released a paper last year on Aligning Incentives and Systems:  Promoting Synergy between Value-Based Insurance Design and the Patient-Centered Medical Home

    http://www.pcpcc.net/valuebasedinsurancedesign    
The New Yorker recently publised an article which provided
additional testiomony to both V-BID but also the tremedous benefits
that accrue through care coordination.

Atul Gawande in The New Yorker Illustrates Value of V-BID
 
   
Atul Gawande's recent article in The New Yorker focuses on the need to improve the care of high-cost patients as a way to lower overall health care costs. The article includes a real-life example that illustrates the salience of V-BID.  
 
Gawande discusses the example of a company, faced with all-too-familiar rising health care costs, which increases the co-payments in its health benefits. While utilization went down in almost every category of service, overall medical costs did not.  Puzzled by the result, the company performed an analysis which revealed the reason: the increased co-pays caused a high-risk employee with heart disease and diabetes to stop taking his medication and avoid the doctor.  As a result, he had a heart attack and was left disabled with chronic heart failure.  The cost to treat this patient and other employees with chronic disease overwhelmed any savings produced by the increased cost-sharing for the other thousands of employees. 
 
V-BID solves this problem:  it eliminates the disincentive created by cost-sharing for those targeted interventions that can improve health and keep people from having costly episodes.  We hope this example makes clear why V-BID is a valuable step to improve health care outcomes and contain costs. We invite you to share this article with others and we welcome your feedback. 

Follow this link to connect with the V-BID Institute to learn how you
can recieve a copy of the paper from the New Yorker  V-BID e-newsletter: 
http://conta.cc/dG11z4

V.      Update on 2011 Calls

           March 9, 2011        Greg Osterhues, MD   General Electric Aircraft Engines

           April 13, 2011         Pam Hymel, MD       Disney

VI.      Call Schedule

           Call-in Number is 712-432-3900     Passcode is 927346     Moderator code is 406354

           Monthly - Wednesday, 3 PM EST –  2nd Wednesday of the Month: 2/9, 3/9, 4/13,  5/11,  6/8, 7/13, (no August calls) 9/14, 10/12, 11/9, 12/14.

Resources

Center for Employer Engagement- Goals and Objectives

Purchasers Guide: http://www.pcpcc.net/content/purchaser-guide


VII.  Deliverables Timetable

Deliverables

Timeframe

Prepare and release value based benefit design white paper that establishes the role benefit design has as the enabler for PCMH

CEE co-chairs are leading the project along with NBCH

Continue messages to employers of need to integrate and coordinate various benefit strategies that promote PCP care and employee engagement.  Including but not limited to:

  • onsite primary care clinics and the PCMH universe
  • the new mental health parity legislation
  • HDHP coverage of preventive services
  • Possible need to incentivize employees to join patient-centered medical homes
  • Needed for employer-to- employee communication on PCMH
  • Role of data collectors - incidence of disease  +  adherence data

Address one of these topics at each PCPCC Stakeholder Conference in 2010

Update the CEE portion of the PCPCC website to more accurately reflect the goals and expected deliverables of the CEE, including the implementation of some interactive sections to better engage participants, if feasible

January 2, 2010

VIII. Wrap-up & next call
        Next Call is: March 9, 2011

Edwina Rogers, Executive Director
Amy Gibson, COO
Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
The Homer Building
601 Thirteenth Street, NW, Suite 400 North
Washington, DC 20005
Office:  (202) 417-2081

Attachments
1. Employer Metrics White Paper Outline 

 
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