Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

Improving Diabetes Care in Communities (continued)

• Baltimore/DC
  • Fragmented health system approached by employers working with health plans to improve care delivery performance
  • Use eValue8 data from NBCH to measure health plan performance including disease management details—Dennis Scanlon PhD, Penn State, assists
  • Employers ask for diabetes ROI calculator to convince senior management of merits of diabetes care improvement
  • Find variation in performance among four plans with Lewin Group assistance
  • Convene plans with AHRQ and Lewin Group experts to discuss data and consider strategies for performance improvement
  • Employers include disease management performance improvement goals in benefit contracts
  • MABGH provides feedback to NBCH for improvement of eValue8 tool
• Expected Result: Improved disease management performance through data-driven competition among health plans