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Outcomes Across the Value Chain for a Comprehensive Employee Health and Wellness Intervention: A Cohort Study by
D Adam Long1, Roger W Reed, Ian Duncan
1H2U|Health to You, LLC, a Subsidiary of HCA (Dr Long, Mr Reed), Strategic Pricing & Analytics (Dr Long), Physician Services Group, HCA, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee (Mr Reed); and University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Statistics & Applied Probability (Mr Duncan).
Objective:
Evaluate a large employer's wellness intervention by studying outcomes across the value chain, and testing Health Engagement's (HE) dose-response relationship to outcomes.
Methods:
Evaluation included 37 measures across eight outcomes domains (OD) using repeated measures, analysis of variance and logistic regression.
Results:
Participants with higher HE had better pre-post percent changes than control: 1.7% higher for Motivation (OD1), 3.4% for Behavior (OD2), 1.0% for Emotion (OD3), 5.8% for Biometrics (OD4), 6.3% for Compliance (OD5), and 5.2% for Claims (OD6). They also had 0.5% less Productivity loss (OD7), and odds of Turnover (OD8) one-quarter to one-half that of control. A dose-response relationship with degrees of HE was also shown.
Conclusions:
Three outcomes domains (OD6 to OD8) can be monetized for cost-benefit analysis. Authors recommend, however, staying focused on driving HE and using metrics from all OD to assess value.
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