The 32BJ Labor Business Cooperation Fund launched two instruments — the Healthcare Financial savings Calculator and a mannequin contract template — on Thursday to assist decrease healthcare prices for employers and unions.
The group works with employers and members of 32BJ (a union of property service employees) in New York Metropolis and surrounding areas. It’s centered on addressing healthcare prices and is an advocate for hospital value transparency.
The Healthcare Financial savings Calculator is on the market for any employer or union. It may assist a purchaser “establish how a lot it may save if it paid hospitals what they should break even, primarily based on their reported prices,” in keeping with the web site. Customers reply a sequence of inquiries to obtain a financial savings estimate.
“For our calculator, so long as an employer is aware of what number of members they’ve in any given state or how a lot they spend on healthcare, or a stable estimate, in that state, they are going to have the ability to see how a lot they might save by reducing hospital costs,” stated Cora Opsahl, director of 32BJ Well being Fund, in an e mail. “For instance, the instrument will present an employer how a lot they’d save if costs had been lowered by even a small quantity relative to the costs Medicare pays. That is significantly necessary for explaining why this issues to C-Suite executives.”
The 32BJ Labor Business Cooperation Fund additionally launched the Healthcare Administrator “Contract-first” Template. This can be a mannequin contract template that purchasers can use when negotiating with well being plans and third-party directors. It’s meant to assist employers set up “extra truthful and favorable phrases” with their carriers and third-party directors, the web site acknowledged. These phrases embrace proudly owning their very own knowledge, permitting for direct contracting and managing the audit course of.
Opsahl stated the 32BJ Labor Business Cooperation Fund recommends that every one employers use a contract-first technique in the course of the medical request for proposals (RFP) course of. On this technique, employers embrace the template contract and “ask for it to be redlined as a compulsory part of the RFP bid,” she stated.
“This ensures that what’s promised within the gross sales pitch exhibits up precisely in implementation and the contract,” Opsahl acknowledged. “All too typically employers are promised issues in the course of the gross sales cycle that can’t be carried out or are later deemed in ‘violation of supplier contract.’ By placing the contract first within the RFP course of employers are ready to make sure that what they see is definitely what they get, and that distributors are in a position to assist the advantages as designed. We additionally encourage purchasers to start out with their very own contract moderately than ready to make use of the seller’s contract to make sure that it displays purchasers’ wants moderately than the seller’s. Any modifications made by the seller develop into instantly apparent to the purchaser.”
By releasing these two instruments, the group hopes to “empower employers to handle their advantages extra successfully [and] demand decrease costs,” Opsahl added.
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