Infographic: 3 Ways Data Improves Employee Condition Management
Chronic diseases continue to dominate healthcare spending and represent the leading cause of mortality in the United States. Leveraging data to drive out waste and optimize care could reduce U.S. healthcare spend by $500-$750 billion. Despite these challenges, there is a large opportunity to make a significant impact on employee health. By securely using advanced data from millions of members, Anthem is identifying and helping employees better manage chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease.
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3 ways data improves employee condition management
Did you know chronic conditions are the leading driver of U.S. healthcare spending and mortality rates?1 Chronic care management is more important than ever to help employers and employees improve health outcomes and increase healthcare affordability.
Data-driven insights are particularly beneficial in identifying and helping employees manage chronic conditions like diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. Employers can leverage the power of data to help create whole-health strategies that can improve chronic conditions in their workforce, as well as lower the cost of care.
How data benefits chronic condition management
- Seeing the whole picture
- Informing business goals
- Turning insights into action
Seeing the whole picture
Social drivers of health account for between 30%–55% of health outcomes.2 Trusted partners like Anthem take a broader look at not only your group’s specific health data, but additional economic, social, and regional factors.
When socioeconomic data is accounted for in your employees’ care plans, the result is a holistic, 360-degree health view. This complete picture helps proactively identify health risks, targets the right interventions, and increases provider engagement.
Social drivers of health examples
- Education access and quality
- Healthcare access and quality
- Neighborhood and family environment
- Social and community support
- Economic stability
Medical records data examples
- Electronic health record
- Disease registries
- Medical imaging
- Genome registries
- Clinical trials
- Pharmacy data
- Health claims
- Health wearables
Informing business goals
Advanced analytics allow data to be sorted based on the prevalence of specific conditions and the total costs associated with those conditions. This can help employers shape and define business objectives that align with improving the health of their workforce while reducing costs of care.
Turning insights into action
Employers need to offer the right benefits that support actionable care plans. An integrated health plan with an insurer like Anthem can include targeted programs, services, and support to help employees manage and prevent costly chronic conditions. A strong focus on preventive care, including engagement incentives, can be an added way to improve overall health and condition management.
Understanding the cost of chronic conditions
The most costly and prevalent types of health services are musculoskeletal, oncological, maternal/newborn, cardiovascular, gastroenterological, behavioral health, neurological, respiratory, dermatological, and exams and screenings.
In one year, these services resulted in: 3
$47.5 billion in medical spend for
10.6 million Anthem members and
$162 per month per member for chronic care
Behavioral health
About one-third of Anthem members with a chronic physical health condition also have a behavioral health condition and a 77% increase in physical health spend is reported for members with both behavioral and physical health conditions.4
Diabetes affects 1 in 10 Americans with approximately 90-95% having type 2 diabetes.5
Musculoskeletal conditions are the leading contributor to disability worldwide.6
Cancer costs are expected to reach more than $240 billion by 2030.7
Heart disease and stroke cost $216 billion per year, equaling $147 billion in lost workplace productivity.7
Interventions to prevent and manage chronic conditions have significant health and economic benefits3
For example, lifestyle change programs can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes by more than 50% for people at high risk.8
As data continues to transform the future of healthcare, employers can leverage advanced insights to create a whole-health strategy for their workforce that simplifies care, reduces costs, and improves health outcomes and experiences.
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1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Health and Economic Benefits of Chronic Disease Interventions (March 14, 2023): cdc.gov.
2 Williams JN, Drenkard C, Lim SS. The impact of social determinants of health on the presentation, management and outcomes of systemic lupus erythematosus. Rheumatology (March 29, 2023): ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10050938.
3 Anthem internal data, commercial. 2022. Represents the most costly and prevalent chronic conditions and services, including
musculoskeletal, oncological, maternal/newborn, cardiovascular, gastroenterological, behavioral health, neurological, respiratory, dermatological, and exams and screenings.
4 Anthem internal data, commercial. 12 months between July 2021 and June 2022.
5 CDC: Type 2 Diabetes (April 18, 2023): cdc.gov.
6 World Health Organization (WHO): Musculoskeletal health (July 14, 2022): who.int.
7 CDC: Health and Economic Costs of Chronic Diseases (March 23, 2023): cdc.gov.
8 CDC: Power of Prevention (December 21, 2022): cdc.gov.