The first benchmark
for bone health
performance.
The BHM Index tracks activity, investment, clinical infrastructure, and outcomes across the bone health ecosystem — giving the field a common language for progress.
What Is the BHM Index
A living scorecard
for the entire field.
The BHM Index is Bone Health Media's proprietary measurement framework — a structured, recurring assessment of how well the bone health ecosystem is performing against the standard of what is clinically achievable.
It aggregates data across treatment rates, diagnostic utilization, post-fracture care, payer coverage patterns, and workforce capacity — then distills it into a composite score that can be tracked over time, compared across markets, and used to drive accountability.
What share of clinically eligible patients are receiving pharmacologic bone protection — by payer type, geography, and risk category.
DXA availability and utilization rates relative to screening-eligible populations. Where the infrastructure gaps are largest.
The proportion of fragility fracture patients who receive secondary prevention evaluation and treatment initiation within 12 weeks.
Prior authorization burden, step therapy requirements, and formulary access for bone health therapeutics across major payer classes.
Availability of bone health specialists, coordinator-trained practices, and FLS-equipped systems relative to at-risk population size.
A single, trackable headline number synthesizing all five pillars — the field's overall score against clinical best practice.
post-fragility fracture
cost — direct + indirect
who receive no follow-up care
in coordinated FLS models
How It Works
Built on
the clinical record.
The BHM Index does not rely on self-reported data or survey responses. It is constructed from published literature, claims data analysis, publicly available registry data, and primary research conducted by the BHM editorial team.
Each edition of the Index will be published alongside a full methodology document, enabling practitioners, payers, and investors to validate the inputs and weight their own conclusions.
Claims data, published clinical outcomes, registry reports, and payer formulary audits aggregated quarterly.
Each of the five Index pillars scored independently against an evidence-based benchmark of optimal care delivery.
Weighted composite score derived from pillar scores, with published weighting rationale and sensitivity analysis.
Index published as a standalone BHM report alongside the Annual Report — then tracked as a longitudinal time series.
Methodology and findings reviewed by a standing advisory panel of clinicians, economists, and health system leaders.
Who Uses the BHM Index
Intelligence that moves
multiple stakeholders.
Benchmark your practice's bone health performance against regional and national standards. Identify where to invest in infrastructure for the greatest population impact.
Understand where coverage gaps are creating avoidable fracture costs. The BHM Index provides the actuarial case for benefit design reform.
Track market development, treatment penetration trends, and the commercial opportunity in underserved segments of the bone health market.
The BHM Index
launches this fall.
Be first to access the inaugural edition when it publishes alongside the 2026 Annual Report.
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