Opioids: What Employers Need to Know

Date: Thursday, September 26

Time: 8:00AM MT

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Though prescription medications are essential in employees’ health care benefits, opioids are potent, highly-addictive drugs that greatly increase workplace risks or injuries, even if taken as prescribed. NM employers know opioid painkillers may greatly increase worker disability, lower productivity, and raise the cost of healthcare.
This forum provided employers from business, nonprofit and public entities with up-to-date information on key opioid-related workplace issues.

New Mexico Coalition for Healthcare Value members can attend free of charge with an RSVP.
Non-members can attend for $25. More information regarding payment for non-members will be released soon.
SHRM credits will be offered.

What's Happening?

♦ Available: NM Coalition members can now access the NCQA PowerPoint and the video from the May 21, 2020 Leveraging Data for Health Plan Selection and Strategy Webinar in the Members-Only section of the website.

♦ Just Held: June 23, 2020, the NM Coalition hosted the “Health Plan Performance Metrics Demystified” webinar, with Angelica Bruhnke and Stefany Goradia from Versatile MED Analytics. The speakers clarified some of the key metrics health plans use for population health management, and showed employers how to understand and use their own employees' data as population performance drivers (member risk stratification, identifying segments for greater impact). PowerPoint and webinar video will be available soon on this website.

♦ Available: The 2020 Employers Guide to New Mexico Health Plans is available to the public for $35. The Guide is a valuable tool with HEDIS data that employers use when selecting health plans to provide health benefits for their employees. The Guide also comes with a presentation by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) explaining the metrics in the Guide and their usefulness. To purchase a copy of the Guide, contact Susan Wilson, Executive Director, at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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