How to Bend the Cost Curve (Vol.1)

  • Bjork Group

 

Better Care. Better Outcomes. Bending The Cost Curve.

 

Consider the following:

With the cost of job based health care now out pacing job and wage growth many employers have reached a breaking point in employee cost sharing.

With employers now facing the difficult decision of how to handle the cost of future health care inflation, a growing number of providers are taking non-traditional approaches to proactively bend the cost curve and provide better care and better outcomes.

Why Grand Rounds?

In the first installment of Bending the Cost Curve we're highlighting Grand Rounds, part of our Lead2Health program. Grand Rounds proactively manages high cost medical conditions by guiding members to measurably better care, with measurably better outcomes. 

How do they do this?

 

 

Where is the ROI?

In a survey conducted by Grand Rounds on billions of Medicare claims, one of the conclusions was the top 10% of Doctors actually cost 30% LESS than average (Grand Rounds: A New Way to Bend the Cost Curve 2015). By guiding members to the best care with the best providers the Grand Rounds ROI Calculator estimates a typical 500 life company could save $214,000 annually. If you'd like to learn more about how Grand Rounds as part of our Lead2Health program can work for your employees, click below.

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