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Mercer launches value-based employer health care tools

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Mercer L.L.C. on Monday said it has launched a suite of online and mobile tools designed to help employers provide value-based health care to their employees.

The tools include a tablet application that identifies value-based care market “hot spots” — defined as local hospitals and physicians that participate in value-based payment models — and market profiles describing the specific opportunities and challenges of providing value-based health care benefits in particular geographic locations, as well as an online assessment and action map designed to identify an employer’s ideal strategy for implementing a value-based health benefits program.

The tools also include a guide to the value-based group health insurance designs currently offered by national insurers, as well as RFP, program measurement and communications support resources.

“We see value-based care as a potentially game-changing approach to achieve the much discussed ‘triple aim’ of reducing health care costs, increasing the quality of care and improving the patient experience,” Molly Loftus, Mercer’s chief health care actuary in Hartford, Connecticut, said in a statement. “We believe, however, that value-based care can only deliver on these goals if programs are not only carefully and properly structured and deployed, but also managed at the local-market level — the place where health care actually happens.”

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