CONSULTING & DECISION SUPPORT

Since its inception, OCI has delivered to Fortune 500 companies the information they need to manage their benefits programs and costs. That experience has ranged from high-level annual reporting of trends, costs, and opportunities for savings, to significantly more detailed studies of specific plan designs and the incentives inherent in those plans that drive employee behavior. This ability to provide insightful analysis from the most granular level to the most general has been the cornerstone of OCI’s information delivery model since 1984.

OCI's Analysis and Research Solutions help our customers improve the health and productivity of their employees by scouring their databases for trends, population risks, healthcare cost drivers, and the factors that increase the duration of disability claims.

With over two decades of analytic experience and a team of Master’s-level statisticians, economists, and mathematicians, OCI has developed unmatched expertise in the understanding and use of benefits and risk data to help managers make informed business decisions. In addition, that wealth of expertise also feeds the design and development of OCI’s core reporting services—based on our analytic and research findings, we have created more targeted and useful management reports for our customers.

OCI analytics focus on identifying the variables that drive costs within an organization, and then on understanding the source of these cost drivers. Because employees respond to the incentives in their benefit programs, these analyses tend to focus on the behavioral and plan design elements of these primary cost drivers. With this analytic foundation, employers can make more tactical and detailed determinations about how to change programs or alter incentives to reduce costs and improve productivity.