The Mission

The Leapfrog Group’s mission is to trigger giant leaps forward in the safety, quality and affordability of health care by:

Supporting informed healthcare decisions by those who use and pay for health care; and, Promoting high-value health care through incentives and rewards.

This effort is rooted in four ideas:

  1. American health care remains far below obtainable levels of basic safety, quality, and overall customer value.
  2. The health industry would improve more rapidly if purchasers better recognized and rewarded superior safety and overall value.
  3. Voluntary adherence to purchasing principles by a critical mass of America’s largest employers would provide a large jump-start and encourage other purchasers to join.
  4. These principles should not only champion superior overall value but should initially focus on a handful of specific innovations offering “great leaps” to maximize media and consumer support and adoption by other purchasers.