The Sequel to 2005's Return-On-Investment and Savings Methodologies is Now Available . . . and Guaranteed to Solve Your Measurement Problems and Guide You Towards Valid Outcomes

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DMPC Founder Al Lewis has once again teamed up with leading health services researcher, Ariel Linden, DrPH to take another large step forward in correct financial measurement. The sequel to their popular and influential 2005 publication contains everything a buyer of disease management and wellness needs to know about outcomes measurement:

• Why the typical financially based pre-post trended model is almost always wrong . . . and how to fix it
• Why you can’t rely on most actuaries to develop and execute your methodology
• How to apply the "plausibility test," pioneered by DMPC and now adopted by the Care Continuum Alliance (formerly DMAA), to heck your outcomes
• Why, how, and where your wellness outcomes are likely to suffer from regression to the mean . . . and how to identify and address it
• Also included: Case studies from Indiana Medicaid, Cigna, and William M. Mercer in how not to measure outcomes

This edition further includes:

• A half-hour consult, once you have read the White Paper, to help you apply the concepts in your own organization
• Links to nine downloadable backup studies, proofs, how-to guides, and customizable spreadsheets
• Lessons on mistakes which get made even if one uses a correct methodology
• Full tables of ICD9 plausibility indicators
• Optionally ($150 extra), the 2005 prequel as well. While the 2008 one focuses on avoiding specific mistakes, the 2005 White Paper describes more theoretically why popular methodologies overstate savings

Prices of the White Paper are as follows:

(1) Non-DMPC members: $1000
(2) DMPC standard "associate members" $500
(3) DMPC full members other than below: $500
(4) Premium and unlimited-level members: Free
(5) Full members for whom a DMPC bid is or has been brokered, and full members on the annual retainer: Free

And, as usual, for those who believe that this type of publication, which has taken years to develop and months to write, should be delivered to them at no cost, we say, "Sure, if you are doing your job as a volunteer, or if you are a card-carrying member of the Communist Party."