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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-6-23
pubmed:abstractText
This article reviews the population health improvement initiative of a Midwest regional hospital employer. Services included health risk assessments, health education, and motivational health coaching conducted telephonically. Outcomes categories for this program evaluation comprised participation rates, participant satisfaction, health status and behavior change, productivity change, health care claims savings, and return on investment. Participation rates varied widely with incentive structure, although retention of participants in coaching programs averaged 89%. The participant satisfaction rate for the last 14 months of interventions was 96%. Four years of population health status and behavior trending showed significant improvements in smoking status, dietary fat and fiber intake, exercise, mental health (ie, stress, effects depressive symptoms in the past year, life satisfaction), readiness to change (ie, diet, exercise, stress, smoking, body weight), perceptions of overall health, an index of good health habits, sum of lifestyle health risks, and sum of risks and chronic conditions. Body mass index showed nonsignificant improvements during the years of greatest participation (years 2 to 4). Indicators of productivity demonstrated improvements as well. These gains were noted for employees across all health risk statuses, which suggests population health improvement strategies can influence productivity even for healthy employees. Program year 3 was evaluated for health care claims savings using a 2-stage multivariate regression approach. Stage 1 was a computation of propensity-to-participate scores. Stage 2 was an estimation of per member per month (PMPM) claims savings for participant cohorts using a propensity score-weighted linear regression analysis. Participants averaged $40.65 PMPM savings over the control population. Program return on investment, including incentive costs and vendor fees, was 2.87:1.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1942-7905
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
13
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
163-73
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:20521905-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:20521905-Community Health Planning, pubmed-meshheading:20521905-Cost Savings, pubmed-meshheading:20521905-Directive Counseling, pubmed-meshheading:20521905-Female, pubmed-meshheading:20521905-Health Behavior, pubmed-meshheading:20521905-Health Education, pubmed-meshheading:20521905-Health Promotion, pubmed-meshheading:20521905-Health Status, pubmed-meshheading:20521905-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:20521905-Insurance Claim Reporting, pubmed-meshheading:20521905-Least-Squares Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:20521905-Life Style, pubmed-meshheading:20521905-Linear Models, pubmed-meshheading:20521905-Male, pubmed-meshheading:20521905-Motivation, pubmed-meshheading:20521905-Multivariate Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:20521905-Occupational Health Services, pubmed-meshheading:20521905-Patient Satisfaction, pubmed-meshheading:20521905-Personnel, Hospital, pubmed-meshheading:20521905-Program Evaluation, pubmed-meshheading:20521905-Propensity Score, pubmed-meshheading:20521905-Risk Assessment
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
A case study of population health improvement at a Midwest regional hospital employer.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Research and Infomatics, Onlife Health, Franklin, Tennessee 37067, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Evaluation Studies