Source: Cincinnati Business Courier, May 18, 2012
In a Cincinnati Business Courier report addressing company hiring decisions, Harald Schmidt comments that employers have a key role to play in helping their workers…
Source: American Society of Health Economists, May 18, 2012
LDI Senior Fellow Mark Pauly has been named a recipient of the American Society of Health Economists' (ASHEcon) 2012 Victor R. Fuchs…
Source: Penn Medicine, May 14, 2012
David Asch was a recipient of this year's Distinguished Graduate Award from Penn Medicine. The award represents the highest honor bestowed upon graduates of the…
Source: The Wall Street Journal, May 1, 2012
Gaming techniques are an increasingly popular new way to improve health behaviors. A number of workplace programs are using competitive videogame-style techniques to…
Source: MedCity News, April 23, 2012, LDI Health Economist, April 25, 2012
Kevin Mahoney's "Big Ideas Challenge" sought ideas for innovative ways to improve patient care from Penn staff. Ten…
Principal Investigator: Volpp
Co-investigators: Asch, Duggan, Kolstad, Pauly, Werner
Due to concerns about increasing health care costs, health insurers are looking to the field of behavioral economics to offer solutions to some of the most serious problems facing health care; obesity, medication non-adherence, and ineffective provider payment models. To this end, Horizon Healthcare Innovations established an Academic Research Consortium to address these issues. The goals of the academic research consortium is to independently study new health care and consumer engagement pilot programs. The Consortium members will advise Horizon Healthcare Innovations on pilot designs and adjustments to produce improved results in health quality, cost and patient engagement. The Consortium will test new ways of trying to improve health and address the nation's problems of high rates of growth in health care costs.
Funder: Horizon Healthcare Innovations (a Horizon BCBS subsidary)
Principal Investigator: Volpp
Co-investigators: Chernew, Loewenstein, Saulsgiver, Troxel
CHIBE is collaborating with the New York State Health Department to design, implement and evaluate multiple financial incentive interventions to reduce smoking, improve diabetes management and blood pressure control in the state's Medicaid population. This is one of 10 demonstration projects in states across the U.S. being funded under a mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Funder: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Principal Investigator: Long
Co-investigators: Ferguson, Glick, Loewenstein, Small, Volpp, Weiner
One-on-one peer mentoring and financial incentives are being compared as interventions which might address some of the barriers to effective disease management common among patients with diabetes. If effective, these interventions could provide important models for improving glucose control in general and, in particular, for addressing racial disparities in diabetes outcomes.
Funder: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases