The purpose of SCBCH shall be to serve as a partnership for businesses, organizations and individuals in South Carolina and inside the healthcare field to act collaboratively in creating sustainable initiatives to improve healthcare quality and efficiency, promoting greater consumer responsibility in healthcare decisions, improving the overall health of South Carolinians and thereby improving our economic competitiveness and quality of life.

1. Improved Healthcare Effectiveness and Efficiency
2. Greater Consumer Responsibility
3. Healthier People
4. Improved Economic Competitiveness

• Small Business Initiative: Hold one workshop for small businesses to help them control their health care costs (September 10).
• Hospital Performance Improvement Initiative: In consumer guide, report all Leapfrog measures, rank hospitals by safe practice score, and include trends.
• Health Plan Performance Improvement Initiative: Participate in eValue8 and provide results to members to aid in vendor selection process.
• Data Cooperative Initiative: Implement a data co-operative for Coalition members.
• Annual Meeting: Develop compelling agenda and hold at new location May 20 (Carolina First Center) to accommodate 350+ registrants.
• CEO/CFO Meeting: Hold leadership interchange during week of Annual Meeting to engage member and prospective member’s leadership.
• Member education: Hold one workshop for HR Professionals and one All-Member workshop – topics TBD; continue providing webinars and other educational opportunities.
• Continue PBM Contract to help control pharmaceutical costs in SC.
• Hold planning meetings with each Coalition member to address individual needs and to create additional value from Coalition membership.  Help members with plan design, vendor management, use of data and incentives in program development, and use of relevant Coalition tools.
• Continue to add to tool chest and encourage members to use available tools for employers and employees.

• Partner with Activate Greenville and Activate Spartanburg to encourage Coalition members to participate in wellness programs.
• Sponsor Community Health Assessment through Greenville Forward.
• Participate in Quality Treatment Task Force for Substance Abuse being convened by GreenvilleCounty and FAVOR SC.
•  Implement HealthMap Rx (THRIVE) in Upstate to enhance diabetes management efforts.
• Create Value-Add Committee to research tools to make claims audits available to Coalition members to identify duplicate and incorrect payments.
• Work to identify and support legislation to help small businesses afford health care coverage for their employees.
• Develop a resource manual for Coalition members to include information such as legal guidelines for incentives, employer case studies, and best practices in value-based purchasing.

• Expand Coalition membership statewide.
• Implement a system of physician performance measurement.  
• Investigate feasibility of a shared clinic for chronic care management.