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The most common employer incentives are for this activity
What is completing a Health Assessment?
100
The current rate of Cesarian Section in the United States.
What is 34%
100
A primary care practice offers better access and more coordinated care.
What is a Patient Centered Medical Home?
100
This integrated program identifies and targets high risk members and uses a dedicated clinical team.
What is the CCMU (Custom Care Management Unit)?
100
Calculation of the value created for a client by a program
What is Return on Investment (ROI)
200
This penalty encourages employees to discontinue a habit associated with over 400,000 premature deaths each year in the United States.
What is a tobacco surcharge?
200
The average wait in an emergency department
What is 53 minutes?
200
A community of providers takes responsibility for the cost and quality of care for the population they care for.
What is an Accountable Care Organization?
200
Towers Watson has negotiated deep discounts for the services of these three telehealth companies.
What are Teladoc, MD Live, and American Well?
200
When a high or low result is closer to the average when measured later.
What is regression to the mean?
300
Federal regulations require these whenever a health plan includes health-contingent wellness programs
What is a reasonable alternative standard?
300
Treatment for Autism that can cost as much as $100,000 per year.
What is Applied Behavioral Analysis?
300
An employer sets a reasonable fee for a service, and members must pay for the cost of any care that exceeds that price.
What is reference based pricing?
300
This transparency vendor offers 50% discounts to Towers Watson clients.
What is Castlight?
300
Modifying data to reflect the underlying demographics and health of a population.
What is risk adjustment?
400
This type of incentive gets the most attention -although sometimes it can anger employees.
What is a penalty?
400
The cost per oral pill of Solvaldi, a new medication which is highly effective at curing Hepatitis C
What is $1,000?
400
When quality and cost effectiveness vary, these providers offer the highest value.
What is a Center of Excellence?
400
This clinical office can provide employee health care for clients with large clusters of employees in a single geographic area.
What are on-site clinics?
400
A vendor might claim success by comparing a group of enthusiastic volunteers with another group which refuses to participate.
What is selection bias?
500
This is more effective at encouraging lifestyle changes than extrinsic incentives
What is intrinsic motivation?
500
These services have never been shown to improve health, but some employers continue to push their members to have these annually
What is the annual physical examination?
500
A network that includes providers with demonstrated high quality and lower total cost of care
What is a high performance network?
500
These professionals compile and analyze statistics to calculate risk and project results
Who are actuaries?