Memphis Business Group on Health: a model for health care reform and cost containment.
A market-driven, community-based, competitive health care model has effectively assisted Memphis employers to achieve their cost containment and health care reform objectives. Members of the Memphis Business Group on Health joined forces and successfully implemented a variety of programs and services that resulted in dramatic cost savings and reform of health care delivery systems. Programs included development of a purchasing alliance for negotiating contracts for hospital, medical, workers' compensation, psychiatric, and substance abuse care and other service and product options. Utilization management programs focused on appropriate consumption of resources and intensive management of critical cases. While increases in per employee costs averaged 14.7 percent per year for five years nationally, members of the Memphis Business Group on Health held their increases to an average of 6 percent per year.
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D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods; D017049:Employer Health Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics; D006265:Health Care Coalitions / Q000191:economics*; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000191:economics; D015271:Insurance Pools / Q000191:economics; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013714:Tennessee