Private Health Insurance Sponsored Wellness Programs
Download Private Health Insurance Sponsored Wellness Programs full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Private Health Insurance Sponsored Wellness Programs ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : Zoe Kimberly Harris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
In theory, workplace wellness programs offer an important public health and policy opportunity to improve the health of the working population, encourage prevention, and lower the cost of healthcare. However, the success of these programs is highly dependent on the level of participation, the effect on health claims costs, on medical utilization, and the resulting decrease in health risk behaviors as a result of participation in the program. This three-paper dissertation evaluates a workplace wellness program in California that uses a financial incentive to recruit people to participate. The study is a two-year observational cohort study utilizing data provided by Blue Shield of California Health Insurance Plan from their Healthy Lifestyle Rewards (HLR) program. Demographic, claims, and medical utilization data from a subset of 8,003 participants in 2006 and 2007 are compared with a control group of non-participants. Program exposure and Wellness Assessment survey data is available for a subset of the participating population. Paper 1 evaluates the determinants of employee participation and retention in the program from 2006 to 2007. The analysis finds that lower-income and high-risk employees have greater odds of participating in HLR as compared to high-income employees. Participation in HLR is significantly related to medication usage for two chronic conditions: high cholesterol, and depression. Paper 2 evaluates the effect of participating in HLR on health care utilization and medical claims. The results find that participation in HLR in 2006 was associated with significant declines in all measures of outpatient utilization (including non-institutional physician and non-physician claims, and physician visits) in the following year. There were no significant effects on claims spending for cholesterol and depression medications, or in utilization in the categories of emergency department visits, and inpatient admissions. HLR may serve as a substitute for some forms of outpatient physician and non-physician care, most likely acting as an informational resource. Paper 3 evaluates the impact of participating in HLR on modifiable health risks. The results find that the use of specific HLR help modules is associated with a significant improvement in many biometric and health risk factors. Participants in HLR exercised more frequently, consistently ate more fruits and vegetables, and reported lower stress levels. Overall, it is found that HLR reduces health care expenditures and decreases medical utilization without a detectable effect of negative health behaviors or increased health risks. These findings suggest that promoting workplace wellness programs may be a promising component of comprehensive health care reform.
Author | : Ronald J. Burke |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2014-11-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1783471700 |
øCorporate Wellness Programs offers contributions from international experts, examining the planning, implementation and evaluation of wellness initiatives in organizations, and offering guidance on how to introduce these programs in to the workplace.
Author | : Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2002-06-20 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0309083435 |
Many Americans believe that people who lack health insurance somehow get the care they really need. Care Without Coverage examines the real consequences for adults who lack health insurance. The study presents findings in the areas of prevention and screening, cancer, chronic illness, hospital-based care, and general health status. The committee looked at the consequences of being uninsured for people suffering from cancer, diabetes, HIV infection and AIDS, heart and kidney disease, mental illness, traumatic injuries, and heart attacks. It focused on the roughly 30 million-one in seven-working-age Americans without health insurance. This group does not include the population over 65 that is covered by Medicare or the nearly 10 million children who are uninsured in this country. The main findings of the report are that working-age Americans without health insurance are more likely to receive too little medical care and receive it too late; be sicker and die sooner; and receive poorer care when they are in the hospital, even for acute situations like a motor vehicle crash.
Author | : Soeren Mattke |
Publisher | : Rand Corporation |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780833080738 |
The report investigates the characteristics of workplace wellness programs, their prevalence and impact on employee health and medical cost, facilitators of their success, and the role of incentives in such programs. The authors employ four data collection and analysis streams: a literature review, a survey of employers, a longitudinal analysis of medical claims and wellness program data from a sample of employers, and five employer case studies.
Author | : Maine. Bureau of Insurance |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Health insurance |
ISBN | : |
Author | : R.H. Egdahl |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1461380790 |
Address to the Conference on Employee Mental Wellness by Walter B. Wriston, Chairman, Citicorp The mental well-being of employees is a subject of fundamental importance to each of us, our companies, our professions, and the nation. Both the Washington Business Group on Health and Boston University's Center for Industry and Health Care should be commended for the timely initiative this conference represents. I hope it will be come an ongoing effort to improve the mental health services to the nation's private sector workers and their dependents. I have had a deep interest in the delivery of health care for a long time, both from the perspective of a major employer and from my participation in the governance of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. It has also been my privilege to chair the Business Round table's Task Force on Health and to serve on the President's Labor Management Committee which, among other things, has been working on heaith care problems. This experience obviously does not give me any claim to special expertise on the issue of mental health. It may prove helpful, however, as we work together formulating our thoughts about the nation's health system, the role of industry, and where the mental health issue fits into the picture.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Employer-sponsored health insurance |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Busbin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1136579710 |
Learn useful strategies for marketing health and wellness programs. This important new book presents a cross-section of current research and commentary on wellness and prevention issues. The 17 authors--representing 11 different institutions--are some of the most active health care consultants in the academic community. They discuss studies for hospital based programs, workplace programs, and governmental and educational institutions. Important marketing concepts are used to segment the work into several sections. Included are chapters which help to define the actual product lines which should be grouped into wellness and prevention programs, studies that define several important market segments, and chapters on channels of distribution. This timely volume concludes with an analysis of current research efforts and directions for future research. Marketing for Health and Wellness Programs is essential reading for hospital administrators, faculty physicians at teaching hospitals, public health professors, government health service administration employees, corporate managers and personnel administrators, insurance industry managers, independent health and wellness consultants, and staff members of health trade publications.
Author | : Ronald C. Stoll |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2012-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 147971643X |
America's greatest days lie ahead if we set a course now that embraces holistic wellness. Wellness: the Good, the Bad, and the Opportunity explores wellness from the employer's view, the employee's vantage, the perspective of health care providers, and the insurance company's position. All these elements are required to be in alignment if real wellness is to be achieved. The benefits of wellness will be realized in higher quality, lower cost, competitive health care; an informed health care consumer with alternative options readily available; appropriate health insurance costs and plan designs; an engaged workforce; employer control of health care costs; America returning to economic dominance.
Author | : Cross |
Publisher | : Jones & Bartlett Publishers |
Total Pages | : 489 |
Release | : 2016-07-29 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 128409880X |
The Seventh Edition of the text outlines more than 75 careers and touches on every major facet of the field including a description of the profession, typical work setting; educational, licensure and certification requirements; salary and growth projections and internet resources on educational programs and requirements for licensure and/or certification. In addition, this resource provides a thorough review of the U.S. healthcare delivery system, managed care, health care financing, reimbursement, insurance coverage, Medicare, Medicaid, and the impact of new technology on healthcare services. All chapters are updated to reflect current demographics and new policies.