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Cost analysis and Return on Investment in Public Health Workshop

Paul Brown UC Merced

Purpose

• Being able to quantify the cost and benefits from health

care interventions is critically important for making decisions in today’s healthcare environment.

• To help Public Health Departments understand how to

measure and incorporate costs and health outcomes into their decision making, we are offering a two day workshop:

• Day 1 – Cost analysis and budget impact analysis for Public

Health Programs

• Day 2 – Return on Investment and cost effectiveness

analysis for Public Health programs

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Proposed dates…

• September 24th and 25th
• At UC Merced
• Cost: $100 per day

– Includes parking and food – Does not include accommodations or travel – CDPH has indicated that they can provide some financial support for 1422 and 1305 sub-awardees

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Day 1 – Cost Analysis

• Presenters:

– Paul Brown, Professor of Health Economics and Public Health – Van Do-Reynoso, Director of Public Health, Santa Barbara County

• Topics covered:

– Overview of costing methodologies (Resource based costing, costing of hospital services using OSHPD data, and costing of caregivers and informal care) – How to cost Public Health programs and interventions and develop a cost of illness analysis or budget impact analysis

• Outcomes:

– Understanding approaches and techniques for conducting a cost if of illness or budget impact analysis

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Day 2 – Return on Investment

• Presenters:

– Paul Brown, Professor of Health Economics and Public Health

• Topics covered:

– Options for measuring outcomes or benefits from Public Health programs and interventions – Combining cost and outcome information to identify the Return on Investment or Cost Effectiveness of the intervention – Place of this information from Public Health programs and interventions

• Outcomes:

– Understanding of approaches and techniques for quantifying

• utcomes from Public Health programs and interventions

– Knowledge of how to combine this information into decision making using Return on Investment or Cost Effectiveness analysis

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Follow-up for participating

• rganizations – Project
• Public Health Departments will be asked to

bring a project

– Cost analysis and/or Return on Investment

• UC Merced researcher will work with Public

Health Department over subsequent months

• Reconvene in early December to review

results

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Follow-up for participating

• rganizations – Additional Training
• October 8th to 11th
• Advanced training in cost effectiveness

analysis

– Training using Excel and TreeAge

• Aimed at fiscal analysts and technically

proficient members of PH Departments

• Cost

– $300 plus TreeAge Software License (approximately $250)

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Questions…

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