Community & Economic Impact

Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy

Businesses both inside and outside of the healthcare industry play an essential role in supporting the health and prosperity of local populations and their communities. Center experts apply state-of-the-art methods to quantify the economic and community value of health system activity and investments, leveraging both standardized frameworks and tailored analyses that account for system and regional characteristics. More broadly, our cutting-edge modeling and extensive data provide employers and community stakeholders with comprehensive measures of the economic burden of poor health and evidence-based strategies to reduce that burden.

How Our Community & Economic Impact Services Help

Our analyses of the economic and community benefits of health system operations and investments use state-of-the-art methodologies to measure both traditional metrics of direct, indirect, and induced impacts as well as supplemental analyses customized to each organization and local economy. Our approach recognizes the economic value of innovative organizations and health systems across many dimensions, including clinical network integration, care coordination, medical tourism, and research programs with spillover impacts throughout the economy.
Our robust analytic framework for conducting enhanced population health assessments leverages public data sources complemented with proprietary claims data to measure the incidence of chronic and acute conditions and model medical costs and workforce productivity within communities (e.g., at the city, county, or state level). We create tools that generate customized measures of the costs of health conditions and potential returns from interventions to address them.

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