In the current economic downturn, many employers are looking for ways to further control the cost of health care without cutting benefits. Health care management is a tool many employers and plan sponsors use to assure members receive quality and cost-effective care.
Health care management audits can demonstrate exactly what your care management program is doing to proactively identify, engage, and assist your employees and their dependents with their health care needs and how effectively it is able to control your health care costs and still deliver quality. You’ll quickly learn if you’re getting what you’re paying for.
Buck’s Health Care Management Audit services range from a simple consultation for a specific area of concern to a comprehensive audit of an entire care management program. Audit results can be used to modify your company’s current strategy, develop performance guarantees with your care management providers, and provide leverage during plan negotiations.
Buck Consultants’ health management team of physicians, registered nurses, pharmacists, clinical social workers, behavioral health specialists, and health care actuaries can help you with an integrated approach that ensures a thorough and accurate evaluation of your health care program.
Buck’s team works with clients to:
- Develop a corrective action plan
- Modify your existing care management strategy
- Create a new care management strategy that more accurately captures your goals and objectives
Read an overview of Health Care Management Audits
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Read Buck's two-part series, Population Health Management: Achieving Results in a Challenging Environment, Part I and Part II
For more information
Contact Patricia Curran, R.N., (410.337.8208 or Patricia.Curran@buckconsultants.com), Candace Shelton, R.N., (410.870.0770 or Candace.Shelton@buckconsultants.com), or your Buck account manager to discuss Buck’s health care management audits in more detail.
