The American Benefits Council (the Council) is recognized as the preeminent advocate of employer-sponsored benefit programs, representing primarily Fortune 500 companies that either sponsor or administer health and retirement benefits covering more than 100 million Americans. The Council:
Our mission is to be the most effective advocate for voluntary private employee benefits.
For more than 65 years, Hewitt Associates (NYSE: HEW) has provided clients with best-in-class human resources consulting and outsourcing services. Hewitt consults with more than 3,000 large and mid-size companies around the globe to develop and implement HR business strategies covering retirement, financial and health management; compensation and total rewards; and performance, talent and change management. As a market leader in benefits administration, Hewitt delivers health care and retirement programs to millions of participants and retirees, on behalf of more than 300 organizations worldwide. In addition, more than 30 clients rely on Hewitt to provide a broader range of human resources business process outsourcing services to nearly a million client employees. Located in 33 countries, Hewitt employs approximately 23,000 associates.
The Center for Cost-Effective Consumerism (the Center) was established by Express Scripts to accelerate development of an advanced understanding of consumers to improve the way they use healthcare. The Center fuses Express Scripts' industry-leading research capabilities with insights from a multidisciplinary advisory board of national experts in the science of human behavior and decision making. They are leading thinkers on how to structure and promote effective consumer program.
The Center is committed to continually developing insights about what drives consumer behavior and translating those insights into practical tools to improve how consumers use the pharmacy benefit, stay compliant with their medications and save money. As a result:
The Buyers Health Care Action Group (BHCAG) is a coalition of private and public employers working to redirect the health care system to focus on a collective goal of optimal health and total value. Our vision is that healthcare consumers get the care they need at the right time, in the right place and at the right price.
The organization is structured as a 501(c) 6 tax entity, comprised of a for-profit and not-for-profit subsidiary. This organizational structure allows BHCAG to use its influence to support improving the health of the community and to meet the needs of its members, while promoting a safe, timely, efficient, effective, equitable, patient-centered healthcare system. BHCAG has the flexibility to do research and to develop products, as opportunities and needs are identified.
ConnectYourCare is a leading administrator of Consumer-Directed Healthcare (CDH) accounts including Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), Dependent Care Assistance Program (DCAPs), Retirement Medical Savings Accounts (RMSAs), Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association Accounts (VEBAs), and tax-advantaged Qualified Transportation Accounts. Our goal is to empower businesses and employees to benefit from tax-advantaged healthcare accounts.
ConnectYourCare's solutions are backed by our unique Stewardship Model, which is used throughout our organization in support of our employers' evolving objectives. Through Stewardship, we help our clients drive the adoption of account-based health plans while promoting individual health and wellness. Our mission is to simplify the complexity of Consumer-Directed Healthcare (CDH) accounts, motivate individuals to act, and execute our solution flawlessly. ConnectYourCare handles all aspects of account administration, including implementation, customer service, claims processing and compliance. Our convenient account-based benefit features health education tools within our online participant portal that help employees to make more informed healthcare decisions. Our Wellness=Wealth® employee communications provide comprehensive electronic employee communications that promote account value and decrease questions to busy HR departments.
The Mid-Atlantic Business Group on Health (MABGH) is an association of major purchasers, including county governments and school systems, financial services firms, manufacturers, utilities, hospitality industry, and others. Founded in 1977 as a non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization, the MABGH Mission is to drive cost-effective healthcare, through value-based purchasing, purchaser leverage, and collaboration with other healthcare stakeholders.
The National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH) is a national, non-profit, membership organization of employer-based healthcare coalitions. NBCH and its members are dedicated to value-based purchasing of healthcare services through the collective action of public and private purchasers. NBCH seeks to accelerate the nation's progress towards safe, efficient, high-quality health care and the improved health status of the American population.
The NBCH has a membership of nearly 60 member coalitions across the United States representing over 7,000 employers and approximately 25 million employees and their dependents. These business coalitions are composed of mostly mid- and large-sized employers in both the private and public sectors in a particular city, county, or region. NBCH member coalitions are committed to Community Health Reform, including an improvement in the value of healthcare provided through employer-sponsored health plans and to the entire community.
NBCH's mission is to provide superior membership service and to build the capacity of the NBCH membership to advance value-based purchasing of health care services.
The purpose of the Network to Improve Community Health (NICH) is to improve the health of the community by:
NICH participants include: healthcare providers, faith-based organizations, public health agencies, employer/purchasers, community groups, and other pertinent community health stakeholders. NICH provides a neutral forum for these diverse, frequently competing interests to work together on the thing they all have in common: healthier members, employees, patients, citizens, and community members.
Founded in 1989, Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) is one of the nation's top business coalitions focused on health care. Our 50 large purchaser members spend billions of dollars annually to provide health care coverage to more than 3 million employees, retirees and dependents. PBGH is a respected voice in the state and national dialogue on how to improve the quality and effectiveness of health care while moderating costs. Partnering with the state's leading health plans, provider organizations, consumer groups and other stakeholders, PBGH works on many fronts to promote value-based purchasing in health care. The coalition identifies health care and business trends, assesses the impact of those trends and recommends practical steps to advance a common agenda. It works closely with payors, providers, researchers and others to achieve the highest quality and most cost-effective health care.
The St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition (BHC) is an association whose mission is to support employers in their efforts to improve the health of their employees and to enhance the quality and overall value of their investments in health benefits. In addition to serving as the employer voice on health care issues, BHC provides information, research and services to its members and the St. Louis community. BHC also uses the collective power of its membership to negotiate optimum group purchasing opportunities. BHC operates as a 501(C)6 non-profit association and is governed by a Board of Directors elected from its membership.
The Leapfrog Group is a voluntary program aimed at mobilizing employer purchasing power to alert America's health industry that big leaps in health care safety, quality and customer value will be recognized and rewarded. Among other initiatives, Leapfrog works with its employer members to encourage transparency and easy access to health care information as well as rewards for hospitals that have a proven record of high-quality care.
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