News All News
Effectiveness of the Health Insurance Penalty
Source: American Public Media, April 30, 2013
Under the Affordable Care Act, individuals will have to pay a penalty of $95 or 1% of their income (whichever is higher) for not having health…
Competitive Group Incentives Effective for Weight Loss
Sources: CBS News, Time Magazine, LA Times, ABC News, Penn Medicine News, April 2, 2013
A Way to Health study published in this weeks Annals of Internal…
Incentives and the Accountable Care Organization Model
Source: Modern Healthcare Magazine, March 30, 2013
Incentivizing patients to seek higher value medical services may be crucial to the success of the accountable care organization model. David Asch offers that…
Smoker Hiring Ban Debate
Sources: Philadephia Inquirer, Forbes, The Atlantic, Medpage Today, Los Angeles Times, March 28, 2013
The New England Journal of Medicine featured two perspective essays about the…
Leonard Davis Institute's William L. Kissick Health Policy Research Award Winner
Source: LDI News, March 28, 2013
Graduate student and CHIBE trainee Nora Becker was named one of the winners of the Leonard Davis Institute's William L. Kissick Health Policy Research Award. Becker…
Ongoing Research All Research
Evaluating Methods to Use Health Benefits Design to Encourage Employee Weight Loss
Principal Investigators: Kevin Volpp, Mitesh Patel
Employers are increasing looking for opportunities to encourage weight loss among employees. While studies have shown that financial incentives can effectively encourage weight loss, little is known about their use in health benefits design. The goal of this study is to determine whether a financial incentive program for obese University of Pennsylvania Health System employees can effectively encourage weight loss when compared to changes in health benefit design.
Funder: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Testing Behavioral Economic Interventions to Improve Statin Use and Reduce CVD Risk
Principal Investigators: Kevin Volpp, Iwan Barankay, Peter Reese
The application of conceptual approaches from behavioral economics offers considerable promise in advancing health and health care. In patients with suboptimal cholesterol control who are at high risk for CVD, this study will test the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of different behavioral economic techniques to improve statin adherence following discontinuation of the intervention. Investigative team leaders Iwan Barankay, Kevin Volpp and Peter Reese will use a 4-arm randomized controlled trial to compare the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of alternative approaches to inducing habit formation among CVD patients with poorly controlled cholesterol who have been prescribed statins.
Funded by: NIH/National Institute on Aging
A Rapid Cycle Approach to Improving Medication Adherence Through Incentives and Remote Monitoring for Coronary Artery Disease Patients
Principal Investigators: Kevin Volpp, David Asch
The goal of this project is to improve medication adherence and health outcomes in post-discharge patients who are recovering from acute myocardial infarctions in metropolitan Philadelphia and adjoining areas of New Jersey. Such patients typically have high rates of poor medication adherence and hospital readmissions and are costly to monitor through intensive case management. The intervention will increase medication adherence through telemonitoring and a visual and audible “reminder” system. It will also retrain social workers as engagement advisors to monitor adherence, offer incentives, and enlist patient support from family and friends. The anticipated result will be improved health outcomes and lower cost.
Funder: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation
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