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The Agenda
A Brief History of Health Care Cost Containment Efforts Strategies That Dont Work Three Potentially Successful Strategies Guidelines for Selecting the Right Cost Containment Strategy
Points to Remember
Component-based cost containment is temporary. The burden of health care cost falls mostly on labor. Value-based purchasing requires leaping many barriers. All sustainable strategies involve sacrifice. Each organization needs to find the tradeoff that best matches its mission.
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Health care expenditures increased at double digit rates in the early and late eighties Health care expenditures are again approaching double digit rates Insurance premiums have featured double-digit growth for the past two years. Each health care service component has had its turn at leading the rise in costs
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Hospital Cost
14% or greater expenditure growth in 1980-82 DRGs led to stabilized expenditure growth. Movement to outpatient services, ambulatory surgery, and clinics since the mid 1980s Early 1980s, 80% of all surgeries was inpatient hospital event and 20% outpatient or ambulatory surgery center Now close to reversed Hospital costs share declined from 42% of total to 32%. Yet spending on hospital services accounted for over 50% of health care expenditure growth in 2001. Hospitals continue to build.
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Double digit $ growth throughout the 1980s 1984 Medicare fee freeze defeated by volume increases (especially for diagnostic services) 1992 RBRVS fee schedule and volume performance standards have helped to keep category in line with overall medical expenditures Physician and clinical service costs share has risen from 19% to 23%, mostly in the 1980s Technology has moved out of the hospital.
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The insurance and administrative portion (load factor) of the premium has been most volatile cost component. Insurance pricing cycle features market share chasing followed by bouts of profit margin expansion and reserve replenishment Average growth above 20% for 1988-1990 led to movement for major health care policy reform It failed but managed care (pricing) boomed.
Pharmaceutical Cost
Double-digit growth since 1980 except for 1992-94 The most rapidly rising component of expenditures since 1995. Some argue increased Rx has been the key ingredient in keeping total expenditures down. Mix of rising usage, new products & rising prices Public policy response varies; some states act as large purchaser and/or price fixer (Maine). Three tiered programs drive private purchasing. Expenditure share has risen from 5% to 9.7%
Employer arranged health care plans are a cost of labor Management is more responsive to changes in the cost of labor than laborers are to changes in pay
Consequence: Labor bears most of the burden even if employers pay the bill
Wage or Salary
Labor Demand
Number of Laborers
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Real Benefits
Real Wages and Sales did not grow between 1980 and 1995
Total real compensation grew by 0.5% per year Real wages grew by 0.0% per year Real benefits grew by 1.6% per year For 2000, TC 1%;Ben 2.2%;Wages 0.5% Conclusion: Increases in productivity (1.5%) consumed by health insurance and pension Conclusion: Laborers bear the burden of health insurance cost even if employer pays
Target the fastest growing component (e.g., ER use, RX use) If policy slows the fastest growing component, a new fastest grower emerges
Only attempts to address total expenditures have the potential for sustainable success
Duplication of services and reduction of excess capacity have often led to calls for controlled entry Certificate of Need (CON) laws Common practice 1970s & 80s, the results: barriers to new entrants and no changes in expenditure growth Solutions are dictated by political power, not market success CON insulates existing providers from attempts to increase quality or reduce cost
Those paid by third parties Total payments to the industry (including outof-pocket) Those related to diseases and their burdens Politicians, employers, and individuals have different answers
1990s version featured insurance companies trading patient volume for provider network discounts or capitated payment Most insurers focused on discounts and major utilization trends the low hanging fruit Employers selected 1 plan (an insurance carrier HMO) to reduce administrative cost HMO plans offered comprehensive benefits
Comprehensive benefits with employer-chosen restricted access infuriated virtually everyone. Low unemployment rates and income tax exemption encouraged expanded benefits and networks ; thus, less management & higher $ Further reductions in hospital length of stay not cost-effective but contentious
Encourage patients to be efficient consumers Nationalize insurance or employ global budgets Disease management for chronic disease Changes in life style for the rest of us
A response to OPM (Other Peoples Money) Increased cost sharing its your money, you decide how to spend it Benefit Shift: from comprehensive coverage with restricted choice to partial subsidy for broad choice Medical Savings Accounts feature the extreme version only catastrophic insurance Many new (untested) options exist Consumer income and preferences drive choices
Some employers abandon health care Risk segmentation increases Reduced incentives to join comprehensive benefit plans (HMOs) Incentives to postpone treatment and ignore prevention are increased Out of the managed care frying pan into the cost sharing fire
Expenditures can be contained by politically set budgets or global caps Canada and UK have successfully controlled the health care line item Priorities in these systems set politically or by providers
Individual preferences play limited role Burdens of illness not addressed, only govt budgets Technology limited: both that which adds value and that which does not
Fewer MRIs means more surgery Fewer new drugs means more intensive medicine
If enrollees can choose a capped plan (or not), individual preferences can served Govt. systems run out of money before fiscal year ends
Total burden approximates $10k per year per worker with only 47% from group health $ (Goetzel) CDC/RWJ report estimates that 125 million American suffer from a chronic condition (Anderson) Average annual medical cost of $6,032 for those with vs. $1,105 for those without a chronic disease (Anderson) Chronic disease a/c 67.5% of medical $ for working age adults Ave. work impairment is ranges from 2.3 to 10.9 days per 30 day work period (Kessler)
Use evidence-based medicine Well conceived disease management programs yield $5 - $10 of benefit per $ spent Successful programs integrate care, emphasize communication, and reduce barriers to compliance Success requires compliance with evidencebased guidelines
Primary Prevention
The prevalence of chronic disease and the impact of risk increases with age Pick prevention programs that match risks Wellness programs Goetzel AJHP medical costs dropped for 28 /32 corporate programs reviewed
Payment comes before savings and, thus, may not make sense with annual enrollment switching Each program has a different payback period Each population faces a different set of risks Compliance (medical community and patient/consumers) does not happen without education and compatible incentives
Determine services that add the most improvement in health status or consumer satisfaction per $ spent Employ evidence-based medicine that based on the most valid and reliable scientific information available Reward evidence-based best practice Recognize there may not be one best way.
No common definition of value or quality; hence hard to implement Multiple reporting requirements and data validity mean extra expense to implement Public sector purchasers face legislative and administrative restrictions on options Purchasers must have market power Providers resist quality performance comparisons
Increased bargaining power if in same market Shared benefits and administrative responsibility is essential for success Mixed results since each pool represents an unique mix of risks, benefits, and incentives California HIPC aggressively negotiated prices with plans; most others had very limited effect
1 million covered lives 1/3 of the market Started in mid 1980s, spent millions Focus: good quality is cost-effective Identify evidence-based best practices
Over-use, under-use, and inappropriate use MBGH estimates at $1,350 per employee per year + $350 indirect costs for poor quality care Estimate: 30% of direct hc $ related to poor quality
Central Florida Coalition spent $1 million 5 year implementation plan Measure and communicate best practices
50% based on clinical quality 25% based on cost 25% based on patient satisfaction
Silver level: pay 65% of Medicare Make consumers aware of cost Reward compliance and risk reduction
Increased life expectancy means increased cost but increased healthy years
Success in acute care increases life expectancy. Chronic disease increases with age, and, thus, life expectancy.
Demographic factors suggest that health burdens will rise dramatically in the future; thus need to determine
Health care resources are scarce; thus, priority setting, not new entitlements, is needed
Patients / customers must choose either broad choice or increased integration A broad network of providers
IBM helps its enrollees evaluate tradeoffs in terms of their own preferences
Oversight from third parties Some ability to bill for extra services Limited financial risk Continuous need to market services Assumption of financial risk Some clinical independence Group practice decision-making and oversight Opportunity for cost-effective integrated programs
Focus on the total burden of illness, not component cost control Develop and nurture long term partnerships among patients, providers, and payers. (Structure the system for all to win) Identify health risk factors and choose health programs and benefit designs to reduce them
Guidelines continued
Invest in the information (including evidencebased guidelines) and communication infrastructure for prevention Provide incentives for enrollees, providers, and payers to reward performance consistent with reduced risks and illness burdens Success requires strong leaders who seek value from health services & human capital.
Editorial views
So far, health care has no Toyota Molly Coye JD Kleine Oxymoron: The Myth of a U.S. Health Care System Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do - Goethe
American Values
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after theyve tried everything else. W. Churchill When faced with second-best trade-off between cost-conscious choice and no choice at all, however, Americans may grumble but select the former. J. Robinson
Find value and support it. Fixed contribution by employers to a flexible spending account (Enthoven) Provide two options for coverage
A focused narrow network that encourages prevention and chronic disease management Broad choice with consumers determining how to spend their money