Traditional Program Overview (3 Days)
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Please click to access the Traditional Program Brochure for July 19-21, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA.

The College for Value Based Purchasing of Health Benefits was created in 2004 to help employee benefit managers meet the growing challenges of providing high quality health benefits and managing rising benefit costs. The College offers a practical, intensive program that focuses on benefits purchasing techniques and skills that emphasize improving the value, quality-cost ratio, and effectiveness of health care services purchased on behalf of employees.  Since its inception, the program has held 14 sessions.  Class size is capped at 40 registrants per session to ensure a personalized approach to learning.


Program Structure

Each regional training program offered by the College is limited in size to ensure that attendees have an opportunity to interact with faculty and customize learning to their individual company’s needs. The training program is administered through didactic and small group discussion sessions and includes time for application of learning principles to the development of an organization-specific customized action plan. 

Course Objectives

Attendees of the College for Value Based Purchasing of Health Benefits will be able to:

  • Describe how the health care system operates today and why a value based approach to employee health benefit purchasing is needed;
  • Use knowledge and skills acquired in the program to better negotiate and communicate with health plans and insurance carriers, providers, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), benefit consultants, disease management companies, and other vendors;
  • Develop and implement customized action plans for health benefits purchasing within their own organizations, in order to reduce costs, increase quality, an/or improve the value of purchased benefits;
  • Identify and use standardized tools for measuring and reporting the quality and performance of health plans and providers;
  • Monitor the impact of benefit purchasing decisions on costs, quality, and value of health benefits;
  • Access information resources, business coalitions and other regional and national organizations to support benefit purchasing goals.

Format

The program consists of the following components: 

  • Instructional modules integrating content and skills development through presentations, case studies and interactive discussions;
  • Reference guide and materials reflecting the most current readings, websites, and sources of information on value based purchasing;
  • Customized action plan (CAP) for the individual employer developed by the participant with assistance from nationally recognized experts; and
  • Consulting assistance and access to fellow alumni and program faculty.