The Commonwealth Fund

Lewin contact: John Sheils

This document presents the approach used by The Lewin Group to estimate the impact of the Commonwealth Fund’s health reform proposal entitled “Path to a High-Performance Health Care System.” The report describe the provisions of the plan and explains how Lewin simulated the plan’s impact on coverage and costs for households, employers, the federal government and state and local governments. It also presents the methodology used to estimate the cost impacts of a series of system savings initiatives included in the proposal.

The primary analytic tool used in the analysis is The Lewin Group Health Benefits Simulation Model (HBSM). The model is designed to show the impact of major health reform plans on major stakeholder groups. It provides estimates of enrollment and costs under alternative health reform plans that reflect the impact of financial incentives created under the plan. Lewin supplemented the model with separate analysis of the various system savings proposals. For each initiative, the report provides a description of the proposal, a review of the available research and evidence on the options and Lewin's estimates of the program’s impact over five-, ten- and fifteen-year periods.

"Throughout the engagement, Lewin consultants listened to us and delivered superb analyses and thoughtful guidance–not canned solutions."  NONPROFIT HEALTH SYSTEM