What exactly is the Health Rosetta?

The Health Rosetta is a blueprint for purchasing healthcare benefits sourced from purchasers and other experts. Think of it as a consolidation of lessons learned from real-life experiences allowing benefits purchasers around the country to improve the traditional method of purchasing benefits. Large and small. Rural and urban. Public and private. It’s an open source project that will continually evolve over time. It improves as more people contribute to its content and more organizations implement its components. As it improves, more solutions emerge. In order to drive systemic change to the American health care system, adopting practical, proven solutions needs to be manageable for benefits purchasers of all types.

The Health Rosetta is composed of various components that each represent a major area of best practices.

PROCESS COMPONENTS

Process components cover the processes around purchasing and administering health benefits plans, e.g., transparent advisor relationships, fiduciary duties, payment integrity, etc. They are important because it is hard to get to a high-performance plan if the process for purchasing and administering that plan is too complex.

SUBSTANCE COMPONENTS

Substance components cover the actual substance of what is provided through health benefits plans, e.g., primary care, major specialty areas, pharmaceuticals, etc. They are important because it is difficult to sustainably reduce costs and improve quality without addressing these major areas of care and spending.