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Evidence-based benefit design: toward a sustainable health care future for employers.

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Bunn, WB; Stave, GM; Allen, H; Naim, AB
Published in: J Occup Environ Med
October 2010

Health care costs for employers are rising much faster than inflation. The common approach to health benefit design of increasing cost sharing has failed to contain costs. Some employers, however, have been successful at mitigating the cost trend or actually reducing health care costs. These employers have in common a dedication to data analysis, a search for cost drivers, and a willingness to adjust their approach to health benefit design to address these cost drivers. This approach has much in common with the movement in clinical practice toward evidence-based medicine. We propose that employers adopt a similar approach toward health benefits termed evidence-based benefit design, which is based on a health and productivity framework focused on direct and indirect costs. Evidence-based benefit design incorporates the relevant literature and employer-specific data that are integrated and regularly analyzed.

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J Occup Environ Med

DOI

EISSN

1536-5948

Publication Date

October 2010

Volume

52

Issue

10

Start / End Page

951 / 955

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Program Development
  • Health Benefit Plans, Employee
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Environmental & Occupational Health
  • Cost Control
  • 4206 Public health
  • 4202 Epidemiology
  • 3505 Human resources and industrial relations
  • 1117 Public Health and Health Services
 

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Bunn, W. B., Stave, G. M., Allen, H., & Naim, A. B. (2010). Evidence-based benefit design: toward a sustainable health care future for employers. J Occup Environ Med, 52(10), 951–955. https://doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0b013e3181f72acb
Bunn, William B., Gregg M. Stave, Harris Allen, and Ahmad B. Naim. “Evidence-based benefit design: toward a sustainable health care future for employers.J Occup Environ Med 52, no. 10 (October 2010): 951–55. https://doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0b013e3181f72acb.
Bunn WB, Stave GM, Allen H, Naim AB. Evidence-based benefit design: toward a sustainable health care future for employers. J Occup Environ Med. 2010 Oct;52(10):951–5.
Bunn, William B., et al. “Evidence-based benefit design: toward a sustainable health care future for employers.J Occup Environ Med, vol. 52, no. 10, Oct. 2010, pp. 951–55. Pubmed, doi:10.1097/JOM.0b013e3181f72acb.
Bunn WB, Stave GM, Allen H, Naim AB. Evidence-based benefit design: toward a sustainable health care future for employers. J Occup Environ Med. 2010 Oct;52(10):951–955.

Published In

J Occup Environ Med

DOI

EISSN

1536-5948

Publication Date

October 2010

Volume

52

Issue

10

Start / End Page

951 / 955

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Program Development
  • Health Benefit Plans, Employee
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Environmental & Occupational Health
  • Cost Control
  • 4206 Public health
  • 4202 Epidemiology
  • 3505 Human resources and industrial relations
  • 1117 Public Health and Health Services