Scout

As the world evolves to meet the challenges of today, employers and the healthcare system are under immense financial pressure, causing current healthcare delivery models to come under serious scrutiny.

Fortunately, the healthcare system is acting swiftly to address these challenges, creating a unique opportunity for organizations to reevaluate the way they approach healthcare planning.

Rethink how healthcare is delivered

We can help you navigate the rapidly changing healthcare landscape by helping you steer care to the highest quality and most efficient providers at a local market level.

Through an innovative and interactive healthcare data modeling program, we created Scout. Scout provides you with a visual analysis of potential solutions based on employee demographics and geography that informs their analysis of opportunities and development of healthcare delivery plans. The power of this new capability lies in the ability to filter through population demographics and market-level information to identify areas that can help you improve quality, cost and patient experience.

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Being able to see quality metrics and our members' utilization really brings home the need for improvement."

Large Manufacturer

Here’s how it works

You can rely on our experts and Scout’s data visualization to help you build customized healthcare delivery strategies through data-driven analysis.

Key features

Explore comprehensive employee demographics

The foundation of any project is data. The local market analytic and demographics framework provides the insights needed to lead the healthcare delivery conversation including an interactive look at detailed employee demographics for various population segments, including age, gender, plan enrollment and salary.

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Scout: Population Summary Dashboard

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Scout: Population Summary Dashboard

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Leverage qualitative network data

Scout provides plan sponsors with a visual analysis of potential alternative networks based on employee demographics and geography that informs their evaluation of healthcare solutions and development of healthcare delivery strategy.

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Scout: Network Dashboard

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Scout: Network Dashboard

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Visualize quality healthcare

Quality and cost are the key metrics in all healthcare delivery strategies, from network to centers of excellence (COE) to direct contracting. Our partnerships with Quantros/Healthcare Bluebook and Garner are key to evaluating potential solutions. WTW has combined AHA hospital data, vendor COE designations, quality, and cost for every facility in the United States to create a unique view of the value in the delivery system.

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Scout: Quality and Cost Dashboard

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Understand the impact of Social and Environmental Determinants of Health

Identifies community health and environmental risk factors, specific to a plan’s population at the 5-digit zip code level, based on data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and WTW’s own ClimateQuantified™ risk projections.

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Scout: Social and Environmental Determinants of Health Map

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Make informed decisions using local market-level data

Evaluate cost drivers at the local market level to help identify opportunities for improvement.

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What you can expect from us

Our experts build customized healthcare delivery strategies utilizing our Scout tools based on your unique needs. Deliverables may include:

• Employer demographic profiles, including location, age distributions, plan and tier structure, and employee groups.
• Employer footprint mapped to all major carrier network solutions, including Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Centivo, Cigna, Employer Health Network, Imagine Health, Kaiser and UnitedHealthcare.
• Qualitative data for alternative network solutions, including network match, network breadth, major hospital exclusions and potential savings compared to broad network solutions.
• Overview of Centers of Excellence solutions available in your markets including AccessHope, Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Carrum, Cigna, SMS, Lantern, Transcarent and UnitedHealthcare.
• Custom market-level evaluation of employer’s current healthcare delivery environment combined with our expert market analysis and recommendations on healthcare delivery. This includes health plan and carrier offerings, assessment of market dynamics, solutions to drive efficiencies, cost containment recommendations, and a strategic healthcare delivery roadmap.

It's time to reimagine your healthcare strategy

Healthcare needs and resources differ dramatically by demographics and geography. With Scout, you can tailor your healthcare delivery solutions based on these factors to build customized strategies that meet the diverse needs of your employees. Ready to transform your healthcare strategy? Fill in your details to speak to one of our healthcare delivery experts.