Company Profile
The Leapfrog Group
Company Overview
The Leapfrog Group is a nonprofit watchdog organization that serves as a voice for health care consumers and purchasers, using their collective influence to foster positive change in U.S. health care. Leapfrog is the nation’s premier advocate of transparency in health care—collecting, analyzing and disseminating data to inform value-based purchasing and improved decision-making.
Company History
In 1998 a small group of business leaders gathered for dinner. By the time dessert was served, they had sketched out an idea to transform U.S. health care.
These employers recognized severe dysfunction in the health care marketplace. Throughout the country, employers were spending billions of dollars on health care—with no way of assessing its quality or enabling their employees to shop for care. And a 1999 report by the Institute of Medicine threw the magnitude of the problem into sharp relief. That report, "To Err is Human," revealed that up to 98,000 Americans die every year from preventable medical errors in hospitals.
Enough was enough. Our founders partnered with Business Roundtable, leading researchers and academics, and top quality and patient safety experts with a plan to reverse these troubling trends. Believing in the power of transparency to drive giant leaps forward in safety and quality of care, these pioneers created The Leapfrog Group.
Leapfrog started with a set of simple, focused principles that at the time of our founding were considered outrageous, but today are mainstream: people should have access to information to make informed decisions about their health care, and purchasers should pay for the best outcomes at the best price. By shining the light on hospital performance, employers could use their purchasing power to reward the top achievers, and foster a marketplace for high-value care.
Benefits
The Leapfrog Group offers its employees a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, including health, dental/vision, disability, and life insurance; a 401(k) with significant employer contributions; transit subsidy; and paid vacation, sick time, and paid parental leave.