Data Membership
Data should be foundational to every employer's healthcare strategy. At the HPA, our experts gather member’s disparate data and conduct independent analyses to help plan sponsors make smart decisions. Whether it's understanding cost and utilization trends, state-specific benchmarking, or ROI analyses, we can deliver the insights employers need to ensure health care dollars are spent wisely. Our team brings experience from across the healthcare market and marries it with a deep knowledge of healthcare strategy to deliver business intelligence you are unlikely to find anywhere else.
The HPA conducts many types of analyses on behalf of its data members, but here are a few ways in which data is commonly used:
Identify Opportunities Through Benchmark Comparisons
With data on over 130,000 commercially-insured lives, the Healthcare Purchaser Alliance’s benchmarking reports provide data members with meaningful comparisons to peers within our market. Unlike typical health plan reports, the HPA provides in-depth information that can tell businesses how their population, utilization, and costs compare to others, and our analysts can use this information to help you make informed decisions about how to address your organization’s unique challenges.
Identify and Incentivize High-Value Services
Healthcare cost and quality vary from practice to practice, and to be sure employees are choosing the best care available some purchasers are pursuing the creation of narrow-networks that offer incentives for employees to choose high-value providers. HPA analysts can work with members to identify metrics that are important to their populations, like high-quality diabetes care, and build out provider networks that meet their needs.
Custom, Solutions-Oriented Analytics
HPA Enhanced Data Members receive 15 hours per month of tailored analytic services. Members take deep dives into their specific risks and costs, healthcare and prescription utilization data, and information on how their wellness and disease management programs are working. Custom analyses allow for custom interventions, so HPA members can design solutions that work for their unique needs. HPA analysts offer members the power of large data firms at a fraction of the cost.
value of data membership
“The Data Analytics team at the Healthcare Purchaser Alliance partnered with the Health Trust to craft customized reporting which really focuses on our organization’s strategic priorities. The reports provided our largest participating employer groups with detailed information regarding their claims trends and top drivers, utilization and sites of care, and preventive screening rates – all benchmarked to the organization as a whole. This data allows them to focus their education and wellness efforts on areas which will create a real impact for their members, and to their future healthcare costs.”
Kristy Gould, Director, Maine Municipal Employees Health Trust
“The HPA’s data services are an integral part of our benefit strategy at the MEABT. Their analytics help us understand cost-drivers at the individual district level, and most important, they allow us to identify actionable steps we can take to address them.”
Jennifer Kent, Executive Director, Maine Education Association Benefits Trust