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Incentives for Workplace Wellness Programs: They Increase Employee Participation, but Building a Better Program Is Just as Effective
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Mattke, Soeren Kapinos, Kandice A. Caloyeras, John P. Taylor, Erin Audrey Batorsky, Benjamin Saul Liu, Harry Busum, Kristin R. Van Newberry, Sydne |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | A majority of U.S. employers offer workplace health and wellness programs, driven by the expectation that they will improve employee health and productivity and reduce employer health plans’ costs. Despite broad access to wellness programs, employee participation is limited, leading employers to experiment with incentives to encourage participation. Those incentives have recently become a controversial policy issue. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued three employers over their use of substantial incentives for participation in screening programs, arguing that the amounts make participation de facto involuntary and thus violate the Americans with Disabilities Act. The commission has issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making to clarify its position. Simultaneously, legislation is circulating in Congress that would increase the level of permissible incentives to 50 percent of the cost of health coverage and align the patchwork of state and federal statutes that apply to such incentives. This sometimes-heated debate is being carried out with little evidence of how effective incentives really are. Workplace Wellness Programs: Services Offered, Participation, and Incentives—the first study on this topic based on national survey data—describes the landscape of wellness programs, use of incentives, and their effect on participation. The main finding is that, while incentives increase employee uptake among programs with limited services, offering a comprehensive program is almost as effective. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_briefs/RB9800/RR9842/RAND_RB9842.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.docum-enter.com/get/2Jh4uQwGm7a-qGezyJ1iJH-kGrQPzRDRTOtAwA3KKyU,/Incentives-for-Workplace-Wellness-Programs.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_briefs/RB9800/RB9842/RAND_RB9842.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
