Our aqi practice

differentiators

We bring a dedicated team with deep experience in strategy and operations and proprietary analytic assets to deliver unmatched impact for our clients. Our dedicated Affordability and Quality Impact team is focused on addressing our clients' biggest challenges. We combine deep expertise across population health and cost management disciplines with proprietary assets and industry insights to deliver real cost savings to our clients and their customers.

Deeply credentialed AQI Team

Our senior team of partners and staff have dedicated their careers to the discipline of improving healthcare affordability, quality and outcomes.

Our team includes experienced health plan and pharmacy and life sciences subject matter experts, clinical leaders who have run these functions, and healthcare actuaries.

We partner with our clients from strategy development through design, launch and post launch management of affordability and quality-oriented initiatives.

Extensive body of AQI work

We have deep expertise within medical, behavioral, pharmacy and Social Determinants of Health subject matter areas across group commercial, ACA, Medicare and Medicaid.

Our work spans all population health and cost management disciplines functions including care management, utilization management, wellness, payer/provider partnerships, quality programs and risk based arrangements, provider network contracting and provider performance enablement.

Powered by purpose-built AQI assets

Inventory of best practices and outcomes benchmarks including typical cost and quality outcomes impact, cost and quality outcomes, and program ROI expectations.

Up to date database with profiles of 100+ healthcare vendors/service organizations.

Our proprietary career development tools and robust talent matching algorithms to enable more effective and efficient clinical team and workforces (e.g., Care Management).

Proprietary analytic models and benchmarking tools based on industry data sets to uncover unique insights for our clients.

Proprietary advanced analytic models and benchmarking tools

Proprietary advanced analytic models and benchmarking tools based on industry data sets to uncover unique insights for our clients.

20+

Dedicated AQI Practitioners

60+

Projects spanning health plans and health
innovators (last 5 years)

20+

Clients spanning health plans and health
innovators (last 5 years)

$1 billion

Of medical cost savings generated

End-to-end transformation and execution

We partner with our clients across the end to end transformation journey from strategy through design and execution to deliver step change affordability and quality outcomes.

Frequently asked questions by our clients

  • Do we have the right set of affordability and quality programs and capabilities across LOBs?
  • Are our programs delivering the expected medical cost savings and ROI on cost to deliver?
  • How do we compare to industry best practices?

Our solutions

  • Actuarial performance evaluation of functions and programs
  • Operations and organization performance evaluation
  • Gap analysis identification relative to affordability and quality best practices

Frequently asked questions by our clients

  • How should we evolve our affordability capabilities and portfolio to ensure we are competitive with emerging market trends?
  • What capabilities are competitors focusing on? What capabilities are employers, brokers and members demanding?
  • What functions and capabilities should we prioritize for improvement?

Our solutions

  • Payer and vendor market landscape and trends
  • Competitive assessment
  • Total addressable market sizing
  • 3, 5, 10-year visioning and case for change
  • Capability sourcing approaches (build, buy, partner)

Frequently asked questions by our clients

  • How should we design our programs and interventions to effectively manage medical and pharmacy costs?
  • Which members should we target and prioritize?
  • What are the specific interventions and actions needed to deliver to drive savings?

Our solutions

  • Analytic-driven member cohort / cost category opportunity identification
  • Identification and stratification logic design
  • Program and intervention design

Frequently asked questions by our clients

  • What are appropriate staffing levels and roles given our strategy and clinical programs?
  • How should our teams be organized?
  • How do our teams need to coordinate across functions to optimize performance outcomes?

Our solutions

  • Operating model structure and functional interaction model
  • Organizational structure development and redesign
  • Coordination model change management and activation

Frequently asked questions by our clients

  • What enabling infrastructure do we need to support our affordability and quality portfolio?
  • How can we ensure our technology is scalable and purpose fit for our clinical programs?
  • What is the business case for enabling infrastructure to support our clinical programs?

Our solutions

  • Clinical program enablement strategy
  • Technology architecture design
  • Enabling infrastructure business case

Frequently asked questions by our clients

  • What is the portfolio of affordability products we need to deliver in the market?
  • How should we position and price our products? How does this differ across LOBs?
  • How do we optimize our cost to deliver relative to projected demand / uptake and medical cost savings?

Our solutions

  • Affordability portfolio design and optimization
  • Go-to-market monetization approach
  • Pricing and performance guarantee development

Frequently asked questions by our clients

  • How can I de-risk and accelerate our execution and launch activities?
  • How can stage build to deliver on time and to budget?
  • How do we ensure transformative efforts and investments will see the projected return on investment?

Our solutions

  • Execution planning and management
  • Product roadmap and business requirements definition
  • Business system requirements
  • Process workflow development
  • Clinical and non-clinical training development and delivery
  • Post launch stabilization
  • Reporting design and generation – customer, operational outcomes

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