CPR’s Health Plan Renewal Questionnaire addresses emerging and compelling issues that keep health care purchasers up at night. New issues of focus in CPR’s 2024 renewal questionnaire are price inflation, policy advocacy, plan fiduciary responsibilities, and GLP-1 coverage.

In CPR’s research into hurdles to disruptive purchasing strategies, participants expressed a gap in that finance staff could better understand health care purchasing nuances.  This led CPR to develop this resource for HR/Benefits staff.

This HPUG User Guide & Toolkit describes the step-by-step approach and provides templates for employer-purchasers and others to establish and maintain their own health plan user groups.

This toolkit includes RFI, renewal questions, and contract language, addressing various healthcare purchasing topics.

This toolkit contains evaluation questions and detailed specifications for evaluating Market-Shaping Enterprises.

This toolkit helps purchasers evaluate their TPA and vendors’ policies toward data ownership, access, and use.  The toolkit includes RFI templates as well as model contract language that purchasers can add as an addendum to their contracts.

This toolkit contains evaluation questions and detailed specifications to meet the needs of employer-purchasers considering or reviewing bundled payment options.

Employers require new standards in data warehousing and analytics. Many vendors are vying to serve as integrators and analytics partners when health care cost growth is unsustainable. Here’s what you should look for in a vendor.

Given the effort for purchasers to implement innovative benefit and network designs, they must also have a communications strategy. CPR worked with large purchasers and Benz Communications on this Toolkit.

This How-To Guide helps employer-purchasers tackle substance use disorders. Various consequences of these diseases are likely impacting your organization’s health care costs, workplace safety and productivity.

Over half of us will experience symptoms of a mental health condition in our lifetime.  And yet, our current system is not set up to effectively treat or manage mental health issues.  Employers seeking to keep their workforce happy and healthy demand more!

This How-to Guide provides background and education on the genetic testing landscape and the implications for their health care purchasing strategies and tools to evaluate their health plan and third-party genetics vendors.