Employee wellness programs can provide a significant return on investment. Johnson & Johnson saved $250 million from 2002-2008 with a ROI of $2.71 for every dollar spent on their wellness program. A study found 57% of high-risk individuals converted to low-risk after a 6-month wellness program, saving $1,421 per participant in medical costs. Organizations with highly effective wellness programs report lower voluntary employee attrition. Moving just 10% of employees from high-to-low risk through a wellness program yielded a 6:1 ROI for one company. Lost productivity costs are over twice as high as direct medical costs, so wellness programs aimed at common conditions can boost productivity.
2. The Case for Wellness
What’s the Hard Return on Employee Wellness Programs?
Johnson & Johnson saved the company $250M from 2002-2008 with a ROI of
$2.71 for every dollar spent.
57% of high risk individuals were converted to low risk at end of 6-month
program saving $1,421 per participant in medical costs (study by Doctors
Richard Milani and Carl Lavie).
Towers Watson and NBGH shows that organizations with
highly effective wellness programs report significant lower
voluntary attrition (8% vs 15%).
H-E-B analyses show that annual health care claims are
about $1,500 higher among nonparticipants in its workplace
wellness program. Moving 10% of its employees from high -
and medium-risk to low-risk status yields an ROI of 6 to 1.
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3. Greater Productivity
Research shows benefits of absenteeism & presenteeism
exceed those of health insurance*.
Loss productivity is 2.3 times higher than medical &
pharmacy costs.
Conditions that most contribute to lost productivity:
depression, anxiety, migraines, respiratory illness, arthritis,
diabetes and back and neck pain.
*Harvard Business Review
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4. The Potential Pay Off
Johnson & Johnson
• Leaders estimate the wellness program
have cumulatively saved the company
$250 million on health care costs over
the past decade.
• From 2002 to 2008, the return was
$2.71 for every dollar spent
MD Anderson
Cancer Center
• Created worker’s comp & injury care
unit for its own employees, staffed by
physician and nurse case manager.
• Within 6 years, lost work day decreased
by 80% and modified-duty days by 64%
Source: Harvard Business Review, “What’s the Hard Return on Employee
Wellness Programs?,” available at http://hbr.org/2010/12/whats-the-
hard-return-on-employee-wellness-programs/ar/1
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Intercare
6. Key Dimensions of Population Health
Management
IBI Research Insights, May 2012
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7. Trend Savings
500 Life Company
Cost Per Person
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8. The ROI
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10. Health And Performance Dashboard
Lagging Indicators Treatment Indicators Leading Indicators
Members Enrolled in Medical Utilization per 1000 Biometric Risk as % of
1207
Participants
9631043 1055
930 968
0% 10% 20% 30% 40%
64.8
HMO 33.2
admits/1000 42.8 Tobacco = Yes
51.2
2009 2010 2011 Glucose > 125
211 Blood Pressure >=
HMO PPO HMO 67.6 139/89
days/1000 104.5
197.3 LDL >= 130
HMO Medical + Rx Net Claims Cost
PMPY 120 Obesity >= 30
$5,268 HMO ER 90.5 Metabolic Syndrome
$3,900 $3,742 visits/ 1000 94.1 = 3-5 Factors
$3,444
$5,052 118
$3,732
$3,228 2010 2011 Norm
$168 $216 $216
2009 2010 2011 Norm Preventive Care
2009 2010 2011 Norm
Breast cancer 74%
Total Medical + Rx Net Claims
screening % 73%
Cost PMPY
EAP Utilization Rate Eligible 70%
11% Colon cancer 65%
PPO Medical + Net Claims Cost PMPY
screening % 63%
Eligible 37%
$3,492 $3,840
$3,408
$2,916 8% Prostate cancer 70%
5% screening % 78%
$2,916 $3,048 Eligible
$2,544
$372 $492 $444
Cervical cancer 80%
screening % 77%
2009 2010 2011 Norm Eligible 66%
Total Medical + Rx Net Claims Cost
PMPY 2009 2010 2011 2010 2011 Norm
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11. Intercare’s Health & Performance Team
John Kahle Dr. Lee Rice Lane Caruso Beth Taylor Dan Openshaw
Chief Wellness Officer Chief Medical Officer Senior Vice President Senior Consultant Health Informatics
Consultant
Megan Buzbee Kate Rittenhouse Kimberly Wells Lindsay Steckler
Consultant Jennifer Martinsen
Consultant/ Operations Specialist Account Representative
Consultant
Education Specialist
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13. “You can’t manage what you can’t measure”
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
Blood Total
Waist Circ BMI Glucose LDL HDL TRIG
Pressure CHOL
National Norms 52.0% 34.0% 29.0% 10.0% 21.0% 40.0% 18.0% 16.0%
Intercare Clients 22.4% 27.9% 15.4% 3.2% 22.7% 33.3% 16.1% 7.7%
High Risk Norm M>=40in >=30 >=140/90 >125 >= 130 M<40 >=200 >=240
W>=35in W<50
National Norms Intercare Clients
Estimated cost of high risk for blood pressure is $7,657 per individual
(Sources: www.secure.hhcfoundation.org; Milliman)
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14. Intercare Book of Business
Example: High Risk for Blood Pressure
Assisted Care 14.1%
Retail 7.5%
Education 23.0%
Entertainment 20.0%
Finance 11.9%
High Tech 13.6%
Life Science 17.2%
Medical Devices 11.4%
Pharmaceuticals 10.4%
BOBTotal 12.0%
Norm 20.0%
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15. Intercare Book of Business
Drilldown on the Financial Industry- Blood Pressure
Risk: Financial Co. ABC vs. Financial
Industry
Financial Industry 11.9%
Financial Co. ABC 7.9%
Financial Co. ABC Risk by Gender
Financial Co ABC Female 9.3%
Financial Co ABC Male 10.0%
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Lincoln Industries calculates wellness savings by looking at the following areas. Health care costs vs the regional average for like industries. Workers Compensations savings are compared to a fully insured premium, we are self insured. Intervention programs are savings we achieve from finding our peoples issues through quarterly checks and blood profiles and applying focused interventions. Absentee savings is calculated by comparing Lincoln Industries absentee rate vs the nation average absenteeism. While we could argue any of the specific points, we feel we are dramatically impacting our business and our people’s lives through our wellness program. When looking at Wellness ROI keep in mind that your greatest cost savings comes from keeping the healthy people healthy vs. moving people from a chronic state or from a critical event back to a post incident state. The ROI numbers on this page reflect 6 large buckets; 1) Health Care Cost Savings per person vs. region (so our actual savings from that of a company in the region), 2) Workers compensation cost savings (reduction of muscoskeletal injury expenses year over year, workers compensation annual expense vs. that of a company our size that would be fully insured, have a larger Mod rate, and medical claims for WC – ours is low do to the nature of how we manager our workers compensation medical claims), 3) per the opening slides you saw how expensive a smoker is to an organizations bottom line – this ROI reflects the savings if a smoker quits for 6 months or longer – so total smokers who actually quite during any given year at 6 months or longer, 4) absenteeism savings is an adjusted savings for what we assume we are saving for having a healthy workforce with low abseentism rates below that national average – absenteeism costs would include expenses such as payroll for a person who is absent from work, expenses for a temporary replacement or shared work, productivity loss (efficiency of work), etc., 5) Intervention programs show on the ROI because intervention strategies of wide nature are needed to get and keep your people healthy. Again – keeping your healthy people healthy requires less expense then moving someone our of a disease or chronic state, therefore – we assume a return on our intervention programs given that we are not only continuing to keep the healthy people healthy but we are also providing intervention programs and strategies to move people out of disease states, 6) Turn-Over we assume a 3% reduction in our turn-over vs. the average company because of the comprehensive nature of our program and the integration of the program into the business climate and company culture.
Lincoln Industries has a return on investment from our wellness program of 4 to 1 as a minimum. Remember the real work in the wellness program was done starting in 2002 when we changed our approach to the program. Many of the people who showed up on the HC savings side were individuals who came in healthy and we were able to keep them that way, it is 4 years out from a tobacco free campus movement which decreased our tobacco users – in turn reducing overall disease burden, and you will see a larger change in expenses early on in the program with the greatest changes and improvements in health are had. Moving forward we have been able to manage the health of our organization through creative population specific programming, strong intervention programs, and actionable company improvements – selection process, safety practices, and wellness attached to performance plans and evaluations.
This slide uses an average of 300 lives per year multiplied by the difference between doing nothing and Clark then multiplied by 304 to determine the per year cost savings. They were then added to arrive at the $103, 968. The do-nothing scale assumes a 10% increase to the risk average year over year. This is based off information found in D. Edington’s book Zero Trends and The American Journal of Health Promotion and the University of Michigan. Note- Lifestyle risks includes smoking. Disease States includes:arthritis, asthma, allergies, kidney disease, glaucoma, ulcers, personal and family history etc.