Category: Wellness
Short Summary of Intervention: “The strategy? Engage… Measure… Optimize. While personal accountability must always be a central component, it is supported through personal engagement and an individualized improvement process. Rather than trying to change the core of an individual employee, we work with the individual to help create a tomorrow that is a little better than today. In doing so, the organization gleans a strong ROI while simultaneously enhancing the lives of their purported ‘most important asset.’”
Materials Being Reviewed and Summary of Outcomes
Questions for US Corporate Wellness:
How can you save $350/year on people who don’t increase factors? Most people don’t add a risk factor in most years, so wouldn’t this math mean that in a couple of decades you would wipe out healthcare spending simply by doing nothing?
ANS: Refused to answer
What does “400%–The Cost of Productivity Losses to Employers Associated with Chronic Disease” mean in English? Are you saying that if no employees had chronic disease everyone would be four times as productive, meaning waiters could serve four times as many tables, doctors could see four times as many patients, pilots could fly planes four times faster, etc.?
ANS: Refused to answer
How are Denver Children’s Hospital’s wellness program participants “230% less likely to utilize the extended illness benefit” than non-participants, given that it is not possible for anyone to be 230% less likely to do anything than anyone else?
ANS: Refused to answer
Should you remove the “3.27-to-1 ROI” claim from your website now that the author of the article containing that claim has walked it back three times while the nonprofit RAND Corporation has also dismissed it and no one has ever replicated it, and the average data is from 2004?
ANS: Refused to answer
Postscript: Any apologies, explanations, changes etc. added at later dates, following the initial posting
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Keywords: US Corporate Wellness, Brad Cooper
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