Healthcare Consumerism

Wellness - Prioritized NBGH

 

  Employers with limited resources, or those facing competing demands, may not be able to add all of the 46 recommended clinical preventive service benefits in a single benefit revision cycle. These employers should consider a strategic implementation approach and prioritize benefit expansion. Strength of evidence for a given clinical preventive service should be the first filter used in prioritization and strategic implementation efforts. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) uses a lettered grading system:

A-B: Employers should implement coverage for all services recommended in the

Purchaser’s Guide, (particularly the USPSTF “A” and “B” recommendations and all

ACIP recommended services immediately.)... Download 2007 NBGH Preventive Services Guide Limited Prevention Ch 4  

Healthways - Value of BioMetric Screening

 Health risks in the employee population are associated with substantial financial burden to employers. Compared to low-risk individuals, employees with medium or high health risk levels are far more expensive with respect to medical claims, pharmacy claims and time away from work1. Additionally, health risks affect on-the-job productivity and the costs attributed to these productivity losses are substantial. Data from screening participants supports the link between absence from work and level of health risk. When the self-reported absences from 89,989 HRA responses were linked with the total scores of these participants, it was evident that better scores were associated with fewer absences. Members with healthy scores (>70) reported an average of two or fewer absences per year... Download 2009 Value of BioMetrics