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  • A Billion and Change in Federal Grants for Health Promotion

    In 2012, the federal government announced over a billions dollars of grants as part of the ACA for various prevention efforts. This article outlines the different grant opportunities as a…

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  • AEI Recommendations for Improving the ACA

    With the surprise 2016 Presidential election results the ACA is likley to be going through change in 2017.  The attached document is from the AEI, a well-known conservative think tank,…

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  • AMSO Worksheet Tool L3-2

    This tool is a worksheet that can be used to help you examine the extent to which your program is likely to produce long term behavior change. Using the worksheet…

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  • Bending the Cost Curve through Market-Based Incentives

    This five-page article from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) identifies the main reasons why Obamacare will likely fail to manage health care costs.  This article is a clear…

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  • Consumer Health Education Tool L3-7

    This tool contains a detailed listing of consumer health education skills. Our definition of Consumer Health Education is: “The set of skills that enables the individual to efficiently and effectively…

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  • Final Amended Text of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

    This downloadable 906 page PDF copy of the ACA is authorized by the GPO and is searchable. This Law has enormous implications for everyone involved in health plan and wellness…

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  • Final regulations on the ACA wellness programming and incentive rules

    This 35 page document is the PDF of the Federal Regulations for June 3, 2013 on the design of wellness incentives that meet the requirements of the ACA.  These regulations…

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  • Final Rules from EEOC on Wellness Incentives

    Summary: This summary of key questions and answers regarding the May 17, 2016 publication of EEOC Final Rules for employers and health plans regarding wellness incentives is an important clarification…

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  • Genetic Information Doesn’t Lead to Health Behavior Change

    Summary:  This systematic review of the scientific evidence examines the effectiveness of genetic information on health behavior change.  Genetic testing is being increasingly used in a growing number of healthcare settings…

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  • Health Care Reform Compliance Looms for Employers

    The ACA introduced a new requirement for employers to include Wellness in their Summary of Benefits and Coverage if the Wellness program pays for health services (like preventive screening).  Now…

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  • Health Care Spending Rises with More Coverage and Care

    This document contains a very useful compendium of U.S. health care cost data up through 2015.  Based on national health care expenditure accounting sources, it provides a very useful set…

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  • Health Insurance Chartbook 2016

    Recently the federal government released one of the most comprehensive and authoritative chartbooks profiling health insurance coverage, costs and trends for working Americans.  This 168 page publication provides one of…

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  • Ideal Health Plan Design Tool L4-7

    The Ideal Health Plan characteristics suggested here are for use in either public or private organizational settings and are appropriate for large, medium or small size employee groups. The Ideal…

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  • Ideal Health Plan Tool L3-10

    The Ideal Health Plan characteristics suggested here are for use in either public or private organizational settings and are appropriate for large, medium or small size employee groups. The Ideal…

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  • Listing of Helpful Websites on Wellness

    What is this about? A major challenge for worksite wellness program managers is finding the many useful free websites on the Internet that can help with some aspect of the design…

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  • LMS Primer Tool L3-4

    LMS stands for Learning Management System and it's a global term for a computer system specifically developed for managing online courses, distributing course materials and allowing collaboration between students and…

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  • National Prevention Strategy Analysis

    In June 2011, Regina Benjamin, Surgeon General of the United States, released the nation’s first-ever ‘‘National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy: America’s Plan for Better Health and Wellness’’ (truncated as…

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  • Participation Strategies Tool L2-4

    There are a large number of possible strategies that can be used to increase participation levels in your worksite wellness program. This tool describes in detail 12 major strategies for…

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  • Prevention and Public Health Fund Detailed Activities by Agency

    This report shows patterns of prevention spending tied to the Affordable Care Act.  The table shows fiscal year spending from 2011-2014 by agency on preventive health. Published: 2014

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  • Preventive Services Covered by Private Health Plans Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

    This report details the requirements in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that private insurers (including self-funded employers) – with the exception of so-called “grandfathered” plans – cover certain preventive services…

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  • Results from Wellness combined with a CDHP

    A just published article in JOEM that presents the findings of a 5 year strategy combining a targeted well-being improvement strategy along with a full replacement Consumer-Driven Health Plan (CDHP).…

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  • Results Hierarchy Tool L3-5

    This tool consists of a table that provides detail about the various possible results associated with worksite wellness programs. The results are presented in a hierarchy with the most foundational…

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  • Sample Wellness Program Budget Tool L2-8

    The file contains a sample budget developed as part of the National Healthy Worksite Program sponsored by the CDC and established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of…

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  • The Affordable Care Act and the Prevention and Public Health Fund Report to Congress for FY2012

    This report to congress provides details on the prevention activities undertaken by the Department of Health and Human Services.  The health of Americans is influenced by where Americans live, work,…

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  • The Future of Public Health

    Summary: This summary article originally presented at the prestigious Shattuck Lecture at the Massachusetts Medical Society, by the Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and provides a…

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  • The Truth about the Prevention and Public Health Fund

    This 9 page PDF explains the status of federal funding for Title IV of the ACA. It details the status of funding for Prevention and Wellness available through federal and…

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  • Updated ACA Prevention Spending

    Prevention and public health spending have been a moving target with changes from the ACA.  This 2013 data table provides detailed spending planning through the 2013 fiscal year on government…

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  • WebMD – 2015 Wellness Incentives Workbook

    This 2015 edition of a helpful resource on wellness incentive design and implementation includes a step-by-step approach to smart incentive strategies, best practices, complying with healthcare reform requirements, and how…

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