Outcomes Measurement Pre-conference Workshop with the Leader in the Field
Do you know any of the common-sense “Seven Rules of Plausibility” that enable you to determine whether a seemingly attractive outcome claiming a high rate of return on investment (ROI) is “plausible?” They should become as familiar to health care and human resource executives as Walt Disney’s Seven Dwarves are to children:
- The 100% Rule (which cost reductions cannot exceed)
- The Differential Impact Rule (actual costs of prevention must rise)
- The Reasonable Savings Rule (>50% declines in use of any resource are likelier due to invalidity than effectiveness)
- The Nexus Rule (necessary connection between goal of program and source of savings)
- The Quality Dose-Cost Response Rule (cost cannot decline much sooner or faster than related quality variables improve)
- The Control Group Equivalency Rule
- The Multiple Violations Rule (concerning pre/post, matched controls, or disease/non-disease group)
Al Lewis, the literal inventor of outcomes measurement evaluation for care management, will teach you how to use these rules to invalidate ROI claims that are almost certainly invalid – helping you avoid wasting time and making misguided decisions about resource allocation. By “thinning the herd” of published outcomes this way, executives can focus on evaluating interventions that might really work.
For the first time at IHPM’s Annual International Conference, at 8 a.m. on Monday, April 2nd, Al Lewis will offer his long-running and highly regarded workshop, which hundreds of HR and Benefit Executives have attended: Outcomes Measurement for
Dummies...And Smarties.
Health care costs keep rising even as most disease management (DM) and wellness programs claim healthy ROIs. And years after installing DM programs to address the “epidemic” of diabetes, most employers still don’t know how many diabetics they actually have. If you’ve been wondering why this is so, you need to attend this workshop by the inventor of disease management contracting and Founder of the Disease Management Association of America, as well as Founder & President of the Disease Management Purchasing Consortium (DMPC), to learn:
- How some wellness and DM vendors inflate their savings claims using mathematically invalid methodologies that consultants don’t know enough to challenge
- Why any pre/post measurement will always overstate your savings
Most HR/benefits professionals and their consultants don’t understand outcomes reports any better than most drivers with an engine problem know what goes on under the hood. But this workshop will “deconstruct” all outcomes measurement techniques to show you where and why the numbers often don’t seem to add up. Better yet, you’ll learn how to measure your own outcomes.
This workshop is interactive – not another lecture – and will provide key insights and valid measurement techniques from the leading measurement authority in the field…and then let you apply what you’ve learned to sample outcomes reports yourself. You will be empowered to work confidently with vendors and carriers – and you’ll also take home plenty of materials for future reference:
- A fifth-grade math proof of why “We use approved industry guidelines” is not a claim you should rely upon;
- The Seven Rules of Outcomes Plausibility…and published examples of their violation;
- A simple claims extraction template with instructions that allow you to measure your own outcomes rather than rely on – and pay – others to do it
The Al Lewis workshop costs only $195 – and you can register for it HERE!
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BUT..... if you want to go beyond the workshop you can
EARN A PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIAL:
Certification in Critical Outcomes Report Analysis (CORA), ($500 for certification) is the most valuable credential in care management analytics according to all the reviews http://www.dismgmt.com/certs/cora/endorsement – ask any of the 200 people who already have earned CORA Certification! http://www.dismgmt.com/certs/cora/honor-roll. The course – and test – are not about complex actuarial “models” but about common sense tools and plausibility tests… and learning to develop and trust your own intuition. The test is given at the conclusion of the Workshop for those seeking certification, and the $500 fee includes the $195 tuition for the Workshop if you sign up in advance.
About the Instructor – Al Lewis, President of the Disease Management Purchasing Consortium (DMPC), is “…considered the national leader in analyzing care management outcomes reports,” according to the 2010 Annual Report on the Disease Management and Wellness Industries. Managed Healthcare Executive consistently names him #1 in the field. The inventor of disease management contracting, he was also Founder and first President of the Disease Management Association of America (DMAA). His popular book Disease Management and Wellness in the Post-Reform Era http://www.dismgmt.com/release/2011-04-15/beyond-dm is the only book in print on this subject.
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