Leapfrog Due Diligence Cooperative

On behalf of its employer members, the Due Diligence Cooperative conducts due diligence on eligible vendors that offer products and services designed to improve the health and well-being of employees beyond the hospital. The Cooperative takes information gathered through a robust due diligence process that includes on-site visits and examination of key organization processes and procedures, and turns it into summary and full reports that are shared among Cooperative members and used to inform purchasing decisions.

Due diligence reports contain about 20+ pages of information on a vendor, including a CD with a full set of exhibits referenced in the report. The reports provide unbiased, expert analysis of:
    - products and services offered
    - financial and operational stability 
    - customer satisfaction
    - record of compliance
    - data transmission and security 
    - subcontractors
    - veracity of claims (financial and clinical)  

In addition, the Cooperative will take a deeper dive and evaluate a program's outcomes and create a calculator for each program. The calculator allows members to quantify expected financial and clinical outcomes based on their own unique employee population. Assumptions used in the calculations have been verified through Leapfrog's due diligence process.

Value to Members 

• Due diligence reports, worth thousands of dollars are free to Cooperative members.   
• Reports are designed to supplement or replace your own due diligence, saving time and money.
• Cooperative members get access to a directory of programs that have been evaluated for quality and effectiveness - a virtual marketplace for employers.
• Reports and tools let employers compare among vendors off

Eligible Vendors
Examples of health, wellness and disease management products and services that are eligible to be assessed and scored through Leapfrog's Due Diligence Cooperative include, among other things:

• Disease Management Programs (asthma, diabetes, COPD, etc)
• Wellness Programs (exercise, smoking cessation, etc)
• Consumer-driven health care
• Specialty and High Performing Doctor & Hospital Networks
• Prescription Benefits Management
  

Any Cooperative member is able to refer a vendor for due diligence. Once complete, the vendor's report will be accessible to all members. The Cooperative then becomes a virtual marketplace for employers shopping for health and wellness services.

The Leapfrog Group Due Diligence Cooperative, LLC is a new initiative of The Leapfrog Group, an employer-focused, national not-for-profit organization committed to transparency and informed decision-making in health care. For over a decade, Leapfrog has been informing hospital choice and influencing purchasing decisions by giving our members, employers and large purchasers of health care services, objective, transparent, information on the safety and quality of hospitals in the U.S.

Information for vendors:
For more information about how you can have your product or service assessed click here.