About Us
We are working together to increase the value of healthcare across Louisiana.
Our goal is to work together to improve the value received by payers and patients for their healthcare expenditures.
The Coalition is dedicated to collaboratively increasing the value of healthcare by lowering costs and improving safety, quality, and consumer experience.
We are committed to providing quality, price, and cost transparency across the healthcare ecosystem and collaborating with diverse stakeholders to align payment with high-value medical care. We believe that empowering employers and people with evidenced-based data permits them to make more informed decisions.
What We Believe
It takes all of us.
No single employer can create the impact needed to improve the quality and affordability of healthcare in Louisiana.
We all share responsibility for the healthcare affordability crisis. Through collaboration, we can align payment with high-value medical care and create better health.
We are stronger together.
Employers who work collaboratively with a unified voice can more effectively move the healthcare discussion and influence change with providers, health plans, and other partners to address healthcare affordability, quality, safety, and consumer experience.
We don’t have malicious leaders in healthcare; we have good people working in a fragmented system.
Cost transparency and quality measures are key.
Greater cost transparency paired with quality measures are critical tools to level the playing field and allow employers to engage in strategies to lower costs and increase high-value care.
There is power in evidence-based data.
Empowering employers and people with evidence-based data allows them to make more informed decisions.
Strategic Priorities
- Promote transparency and provide insights that help bring clarity to hospital pricing.
- Address the broad and unwarranted hospital pricing variations.
- Create a more competitive environment.
- Promote providers committed to migrating away from fee-for-service to value-based care.
Meet our Advisory Council
Our volunteer Advisory Council provides strategic oversight for the Employer Coalition. Council members offer unique industry knowledge that influences our initiatives and ensures our collective impact through events, partnerships, and community outreach.
We are a part of the Louisiana Healthcare Quality Forum.
The Employer Coalition of Louisiana is an initiative of the Louisiana Healthcare Quality Forum (LHCQF). Since it was established in 2007, the Quality Forum has pursued an ambitious, quality-focused objective: reshaping healthcare in Louisiana so that it is truly patient-centered, technologically-advanced and value-driven. To achieve this, the organization serves as the only neutral convener of stakeholders in the state by collaborating with providers, payers, purchasers and consumers to reinforce and broaden the Quality Forum’s mission and supporting Louisiana’s healthcare agenda.
Download the Coalition 2024 Annual Report
LHCQF releases a yearly Annual Report to provide insight into the work our organization has done throughout the year. Visit our latest report to see how we have grown and to review a summary of our organization’s mission, outreach efforts, impact and more.
Coming soon!
Join the Employer Coalition Today
No single employer can create the impact needed to improve the quality and affordability of healthcare in Louisiana. Together, we can. Learn more about becoming a member.