Financial Incentives and Diabetes Disease Control in Employees: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many employers offer worksite wellness programs, including financial incentives to achieve goals. Evidence supporting such programs is sparse.

Objective

To assess whether diabetes and cardiovascular risk factor control in employees improved with financial incentives for participation in disease management and for attaining goals.

Design

Retrospective cohort study using insurance claims linked with electronic medical record data from January 2008-December 2012.

Participants

Employee patients with diabetes covered by the organization's self-funded insurance and propensity-matched non-employee patient comparison group with diabetes and commercial insurance.

Intervention

Financial incentives for employer-sponsored disease management program partic

SUBMITTER: Misra-Hebert AD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4945561 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature