Watson Wyatt Partners with Quest Analytics

Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a human capital consulting firm, and Quest Analytics, L.L.C., a software solutions firm, today announced a strategic partnership that enhances Watson Wyattís ability to help companies make health care decisions based on provider quality.

Quest Analytics provides tools and data that allow employers to compare health plans based on a combination of access, quality and cost. With this partnership, Watson Wyatt consultants can more comprehensively evaluate a health plan networkís hospitals in an effort to help employers control health care costs and improve the health of workers.

ìProvider quality has previously been a missing element in employersí move to consumerism,î said Ted Nussbaum, director of group and health care consulting at Watson Wyatt. ìOur partnership with Quest allows us to help employers and employees factor quality into their health care decisions and, in turn, locate significant potential savings.î

ìEmployers and employees need to understand the impact that quality in addition to access has on their outgoing health care spending,î said John Weis, co-founder of Quest Analytics. ìOur technology combined with Watson Wyattís experience can help control these costs efficiently.î

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