Benchmarking
In this highly competitive marketplace, our members often struggle with how to efficiently and effectively offer their employees the most value from their benefits. One of the best ways to meet this goal is by benchmarking your own company against peers. The Business Group serves our members' benchmarking and data needs in several ways.
Surveys
One of the values of membership in NBGH is the ability to learn from colleagues within other organizations who face the same challenges you do. Member surveys are a key way to gather information for benchmarking. These include:
- Quick Surveys provide an opportunity for members to poll other members on particular targeted issues. Survey results are available immediately to participants and reports are posted on the website with other topic resources.
- Plan Design Survey is an annual opportunity for members to share their anticipated plan design changes for the upcoming year. This survey is launched each spring, with preliminary results presented at the June Employer Summit on Health Care Costs and Solutions.
- In-Depth Surveys: Surveys on key health issues are designed to gather in-depth information for our members to utilize.
- Employee Surveys: The Business Group undertakes surveys of employees of large employers to understand how employees approach a variety of topics related to their health benefits. Our most recent survey, conducted in the fall of 2007 surveyed approximately 1,500 employees of large employers regarding how they gather and utilize medical information in their health care decision making.
Employees and Health Care Decision Making Full Report (December 2007)
Employees and Health Care Decision Making Supplemental Report (January 2008)
Employees and their Health Benefits: Perceptions, Values and Trade-offs (April 2007)
- Collaborative Surveys:
- The NBGH/Watson Wyatt Worldwide Employer Survey on Purchasing Value in Healthcare: To help determine how employers are using incentives, their thoughts on health care reform and the latest trends in consumer-directed health plans and health management programs, NBGH/Watson Wyatt Worldwide conduct an annual employer survey. The 2008 results are now available.
- 2007/2008 Staying@WorkTM Survey: Conducted by Watson Wyatt and the National Business Group on Health, this year's survey examined essential programs aimed at improving employee health and productivity and subsequent business success. Please click on the link above to read the full report.
Benchmarking Tools
Benchmarking Tools assist our members in their own benchmarking efforts.
- Estimated 2009 Cost Projections
This document summarizes the latest research on what employers can expect in terms of health care cost increases in 2009.
- Ten Tactics to Ease Health Care Costs
This Check List summarizes the top ten tactics used by large employers to ease health care costs and provides clickable links to Solutions Online.
- Health Care Cost Drivers (Issue Brief)
This Issue Brief summarizes the latest national health expenditure data with projections to 2017, and recommends the top 10 cost-management tactics in controlling the rising cost of providing health benefits.
- Controlling Health Care Spending in the United States (Slide Deck)
This executive series presentation looks at the drivers of health care spend and provides solutions that will help control costs and improve quality and effectiveness of care. This material is prepared to be adapted or customized for the unique culture and challenges of your company.
- Summary of Cost Analyses of Employment Based Care, provides a succinct summary of benefits consulting firms and research organizations' surveys forecasting what the employer health care cost trend will be for the next year. This tool is updated periodically as new studies are released.
- Solutions Online: Solutions Online documents key health benefit management strategies and tactics to help you know if a solution is right for your company. It also links you to other NBGH products and more information on specific approaches. Solutions Online catalogs much of the key benchmarking data we gather.
Respond to Members' Benchmarking Needs
Business Group staff is available to respond to members' benchmarking questions and needs. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact benchmarking@businessgrouphealth.org.
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