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RAND 3.0
Hospital Price Transparency Report Results
September 24, 2020
RAND 3.0 Results – September 24, 20201
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Program Sponsors
Presenting Sponsors
Co-SponsorsAon
Fond du Lac Area Businesses on Health
Hays Companies
Lockton Companies
RAND 3.0 Results – September 24, 20202
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Agenda
• Opening Comments
• Introductions
– Panelists
• Objectives
• RAND 3.0 Results
• Questions & Answers
• Call to Action
RAND 3.0 Results – September 24, 20203
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Today’s Panelists
• Jeffrey Kluever – Executive Director, Business Health Care Group
• Cheryl DeMars – President & CEO, The Alliance
• Chris Reader – Senior Director of Workforce & Employment Policy at Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce
• Dave Osterndorf – BHCG Strategic Consultant, Partner & Chief Actuary, Health Exchange Resources
• Christopher Whaley – Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation
RAND 3.0 Results – September 24, 20204
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Why Does RAND Matter to the Business Community?
Comments from:
• Cheryl DeMars – The Alliance
• Chris Reader – Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce
• Jeffrey Kluever – Business Health Care Group
RAND 3.0 Results – September 24, 20205
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Objectives
Today’s session is intended to be about the “what?” and the “what now?”
The “What?”
• You’ll hear the results from this important study as it pertains to the state of health care costs and prices in Wisconsin
• You’ll get a chance to see the variability in prices for health systems in the state
• You’ll see how the results of this study stack up against other, similar studies
The “What Now?”
• You’ll gain additional insights into how some employer groups have used this information in managing their health care benefits program
• We’ll move forward the dialogue on what needs to change and how we can work together as employers, and ideally, health care providers, to create a more favorable health care market
RAND 3.0 Results – September 24, 20206
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RAND 3.0 Results
Christopher Whaley
Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation
RAND 3.0 Results – September 24, 20207
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Wisconsin Business Health Care GroupSeptember 24, 2020
Christopher Whaley
RAND Hospital Price Transparency Project
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Background
Study approach
Study findings
Comparison to other studies
Implications & conclusions
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• Funding provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and participating employers
• Study conceptualized by Employer’s Forum of Indiana
• The study team:
Brian BriscombeQuantitative Analyst
Rose KerberResearch Programmer
Christine GallagherContract Administrator
Brenna O’NeillResearch Programmer
Aaron KofnerResearch Programmer
Acknowledgments
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Employer-sponsored plans cover half of Americans
$1.2 trillionhealth care costs in 2018
$480 billionhospital costs in 2018 160 million
people
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Prices paid by employers are rising rapidly
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Trends in Case-Mix Adjusted Inpatient Hospital Prices
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Source: CMS Hospital Cost Report Data12
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Why should we care about health care spending?
Source: Arnold and Whaley, Who Pays for Health Care Costs? The Effects of Health Care Prices on Wages. RAND Corporation, 2020.
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What do we know already?
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• Prices paid by private health plans are higher and growing faster than Medicare
• Increases in spending are driven by price growth, not utilization
• Prices vary widely from market to market, and from hospital to hospital within markets
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What do we not yet know?
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• How do prices compare across the country?
• Are hospital prices continuing to rise?
• Which hospitals/systems are getting the highest prices?
• What are the prices that individual self-funded employers are paying, and are these prices in line with the value that employers are getting?
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Self-funded employers have a fiduciary responsibility
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• Fiduciaries have a responsibility to “act solely in the interest of plan participants and their beneficiaries and with the exclusive purpose of providing benefits to them.” (Department of Labor)
• How can self-funded plans fulfill fiduciary obligations without knowing prices?
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Hospital prices in the time of COVID-19
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• COVID-19 is placing enormous financial pressure on both hospitals and employers
• Hospitals and health professionals are critical members of their communities
• Health benefits are one of the largest expenses for employers
• Now more than ever, employers need transparent information about hospital prices
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Why did RAND undertake this study?
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• We do not know what the “right” price is for hospital care
• Self-funded employers cannot act as responsible fiduciaries for their employees without price information
• Employers can use the information in this report—together with knowledge of their own employee populations—to decide if the prices they and their employees are paying align with value
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RAND’s hospital study journey:
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• Just Indiana
• employers
• facility fees
• relative prices
Phase 1.0
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RAND’s hospital study journey:
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• Just Indiana
• employers
• facility fees
• relative prices
Phase 1
• 25 states
• employers, health plans, and 2 APCDs
• inpatient/outpatient
• facility fees
• relative and standardized prices
Phase 2.0
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RAND’s hospital study journey:
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• Just Indiana
• employers
• facility fees
• relative prices
Phase 1
• 25 states
• employers, health plans, and 2 APCDs
• inpatient/outpatient
• facility fees
• relative and standardized prices
Phase 2
• 49 states (excluding Maryland)
• employers, health plans, and 6 APCDs
• inpatient/outpatient
• facility and professional fees
• service-line prices
Phase 3.0
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Background
Study approach
Study findings
Comparison to other studies
Implications & conclusions
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Obtain claims data from:
• self-funded employers
• APCDs
• health plans
Measure prices in two ways:
• relative to a Medicare benchmark
• price per case-mix weight
Create a publichospital price report:
• posted online, downloadable
• named facilities & systems
• inpatient prices & outpatient prices
Create privatehospital price reports for self-funded employers
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Comparing prices can be challenging• Every hospital is different
and performs different
services
• The Medicare system can
help us standardize and
make an “apples-to-apples”
comparison
• So let’s make an apple
pie—but with two recipes
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Recipe #1: Percent of Medicare
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• What do employers pay relative to what Medicare would have paid at the exact same hospitals?
• Easy to interpret and compare across hospitals
• Comparable across service lines
• Medicare adjusts for cost of living and wage differences
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Recipe #2: Standardized prices
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• Medicare has figured out how much more to pay for different services
• e.g., Medicare pays 34.65 times for a heart transplant (DRG 103) than for chest pains (DRG 143)
• we can use these weights to make an apples-to-apples comparison across hospital services
• average ”walk out the door” amount
• Not comparable across service lines
• Don’t have to worry about teaching, DSH, etc. payments
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Comparison to Medicare
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• We leverage the Medicare payment system as a benchmark, not as a price endpoint
• Medicare prices and methods are empirically based and transparent
• Benchmarking to Medicare allows employers to compare prices between hospitals, relative to the largest purchaser in the world
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Data protections
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• This study was regulated by RAND’s Human Subjects Protection Committee
• We conducted our data analysis in a secure computing environment—similar to the environment used to analyze confidential Medicare data
• RAND data analysts undergo HIPAA and human subjects training
• NDAs and DUAs were put in place to protect data confidentiality
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Background
Study approach
Study findings
Comparison to other studies
Implications & conclusions
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Commercial prices relative to Medicare have increased steadily
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Commercial prices relative to Medicare vary widely across states
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Some link between price and quality, but many high quality hospitals with low prices
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Patient mix doesn’t explain price variation
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Wisconsin hospital system prices: Inpatient
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Wisconsin hospital prices: inpatient orthopedic
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Background
Study approach
Study findings
Comparison to other studies
Implications & conclusions
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Another Data Source—HCCI Health Marketplace Index
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Another Data Source—Health Affairs Study
• Chernew and colleagues (2020) Health Affairs
• Wisconsin sixth highest state for Medicare-commercial price gap
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Another Data Source—Medicare Hospital Cost Reports
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How can employers use price transparency?
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Employers are collecting information about prices
• The Colorado Business Group on
Health used RAND 2.0 data to
produce a report on value of
Colorado hospitals
• The report proposed options for
Colorado employers to address
prices in their specific markets
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Employers are using data to benchmark prices
Harris Meyer (2020) “Self-insured employers go looking for value-based deals“ Modern Healthcare
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And they’re citing RAND’s study in their negotiations
Anthem is attempting to support a core goal of the RAND study by holding hospital systems accountable for their prices, which in turn will benefit our employees' mental and physical health and their financial wellness.
—Purdue Senior Director of Benefits
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Role for state and federal policymakers
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Market structure limits ability for employer innovation
• many markets have limited provider options
• 70% of U.S. markets are concentrated (HCCI, 2019)
Employers can also push for regulatory reforms
• all-payer claims databases
• policies that promote competition and eliminate gag
clauses
• limits on out-of-network charges
• all-payer or global budget programs
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Unanswered Questions
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• What has happened since 2018?
• How has COVID-19 impacted prices?
• What effects do market structure differences have on
prices?
• Have employer innovations led to lower prices?
RAND 4.0• Enrollment details: https://employerptp.org/enroll/
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Conclusions
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• Rising health care costs place pressure on employers
and worker wages—especially during the COVID-19
pandemic
• The wide variation in hospital prices presents a potential
savings opportunity for employers
• Employers need to demand transparent information on
the prices they—and their employees—are paying
• Employers need to use transparency to inform benefit
strategy
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Questions & Answers
• Please type your questions in the webinar chat box
• Any questions not addressed in today’s session, will be answered in the webinar follow-up
Thank you!
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Call to Action
• Employers
– Submit your claims data for RAND 4.0 – easy process
• RAND homepage
• Contact page to enter your information if interested in submitting data
• Hospital Price Transparency Study FAQs
– Lend your employer voice to efforts to improve health care value in Wisconsin
– Join your regional employer coalitions and encourage other employers to do the same
– Engage with other quality and cost transparency initiatives (e.g.; Wisconsin Health Information Organization; Wisconsin Collaborative for Health Care Quality)
– Use the data to:
• Reward physicians and hospitals providing high value health care
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Call to Action
• Providers/Health Systems – Work toward great cost efficiency
– Collaborate with employers and health plans to meet the shared goals of affordability and access to highest quality care
– Engage with other quality and cost transparency initiatives (e.g.; Wisconsin Health Information Organization; Wisconsin Collaborative for Health Care Quality)
• Health Plans– Facilitate the evolution through greater data sharing, value-based contracting strategies and
elimination of barriers to positive change
• Broker/Consultants– Encourage clients to participate in RAND 4.0
– Assist clients in meeting their employer fiduciary responsibilities
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Contact Information
• Jeff Kluever, Executive Director, BHCG
– [email protected] / 262-875-3312
• Cheryl DeMars, President & CEO, The Alliance
– [email protected] / 608-210-6621
• Chris Reader, Senior Director of Workforce & Employment Policy, WMC
– [email protected] / 608-661-6947
• Christopher Whaley, Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation
– [email protected] / 310-393-0411 xt. 7969
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Thank You!Christopher Whaley, RAND Corporation
Aon, Fond du Lac Area Businesses on Health, Hays Companies and Lockton Companies
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