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 Medicine, conducted by PI’s Jeff Kullgren and Kevin Volpp, found that offering CHOP employees a competitive group financial incentive was more effective for weight loss than an individual incentive. Co-author David Asch comments “our study demonstrates that how one offers the incentive is critically important. A lot of employers, insurers, and health care institutions are rolling out incentive programs now, and with a little design help they can make those programs much more effective.”