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Copyright © 2013 ShapeUp, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Proprietary & Confidential shapeup.com

IS PARTICIPATION IN WELLNESS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE EMPLOYEES,

AND IS IT FAIR TO PENALIZE EMPLOYEES WHO DON'T PARTICIPATE?

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Employers Widely Use Participation Incentives

• Employer participants in Aon Hewitt’s 2012 Health Care Survey indicated

they are more likely to use incentives to drive participation in wellness

programs:

o Participation in health risk questionnaires (HRQs) and

biometric screening are the two most popular programs where

incentives are offered to participate (84% and 64%,

respectively)

o 51% of the employers participating in the survey offer an

incentive for participation in health improvement/wellness

programs

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Conflict Over Penalties for Employees

• There is widespread support for wellness initiatives in

the workplace among both employers and employees. At

the same time, there is conflict over programs that tie

rewards or penalties to individuals achieving standards

related to health status—and especially over those

arrangements that affect employee health insurance

premiums or cost-sharing amounts.

Source: http://www.healthaffairs.org/healthpolicybriefs/brief.php?brief_id=69

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Participation-Based Programs Should Be Voluntary

• “Participation-based programs provide financial incentives or rewards to individuals

who participate in health education and awareness activities or complete health risk

assessments or other risk identification tools. For example, an employer offers gift

certificates to those who participate in a health fair or complete a biometric screening.

The incentives promote health education and encourage healthy behaviors rather

than focus on an employee’s health status. However, participation-based programs

should not be mandatory. Requiring employees to participate in order to receive an

incentive without taking into account barriers to participation such as health status or

other familial or work obligations could lead to even greater health disparities.

These programs should help participants achieve a better health status not create

barriers to affordable health care.”

Source: http://www.cpehn.org/pdfs/New_Wellness_Principlesv6.pdf

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