Evidence-Based Benefits: A Toolkit for Employers
Introduction
Evidence-based benefit design is a relatively new approach to employer-sponsored health care that uses design and purchasing techniques, such as employee cost-sharing, provider selection/payment, and decision supports, to encourage health interventions with evidence of medical effectiveness.
The National Committee on Evidence-Based Benefit Design developed this toolkit as a resource for employers who want to strategically invest health care dollars to improve quality, prevent disease and injury and promote value, as well as to counter health system incentives to over-promote and overuse unnecessary, unproven and potentially harmful procedures and treatments.
"Evidence Reports" translate comparative effectiveness studies and other research from well regarded sources into coverage, provider selection/payment, and member support recommendations. Please check this page regularly for new reports and updates.
Toolkit Components
- Framework for Action
- Evidence-Based Benefits Model
- Challenges to Implementing an Evidence-Based Benefit
- Checklist
- Calendar
Applying Medical Evidence to Benefit Design: Evidence Reports
Primary Care: Foundation for an Evidence-Based Health System 
All Business Group Evidence-Based Benefits Resources
Related ToolKits from the National Business Group on Health
Employee Resources
National Committee on Evidence-Based Benefit Design
The National Committee on Evidence-based Benefit Design (NCEBBD) is part of the National Business Group on Health's Institute on Health Care Costs and Solutions. The committee was established in September 2004 as a forum for large employers and national experts to consider a new framework for health care benefits based on evidence of medical effectiveness. By linking benefit design to medical practices with demonstrated effectiveness, the NCEBBD seeks to enhance the health and quality of life of employees and their dependents and improve employers' return on benefits investment.
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