First, Take a Deep Breath

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You work in Human Resources for a company with 20,000 employees; 5,000 live in the west coast city where the company’s headquarters are located. You have hired a data consultant to analyze your
health claims data to identify areas where your costs are above industry averages. Somewhat to your surprise, the analysis suggests that expenditures for the treatment of asthma are extraordinarily
high for children of your employees. You decide to investigate vendors that offer asthma management programs for children, with the thought that you might recommend contracting with a vendor to
help your company control pediatric asthma treatment costs and improve quality. You begin your investigation by going to the America’s Health Insurance Plans website to see if the AHIP offers any
guidance. You quickly locate DM Direct and its listing of companies. You also search the internet for vendors of chronic illness management and disease management programs. You narrow your choices
to two vendors. To assist your choice, you do the following:

(1) Construct a table that compares program features for the two vendors you are considering. (12 pts.)

(2) Create a list of questions, specific to each vendor, which you intend to email to the two vendors asking for additional information regarding areas missing from their program descriptions, or
requiring more details. Explain the reason for each question. (7 pts.)

(3) While the information you receive in response to your emails could change your mind, at this point which vendor (of the two you profiled in your response to question 1) do you favor? Explain
why. (6 pts.)
Note to the writer :

I ‘ll attach 2 lecture related to the topic

also you can check some of this links as a references :

**Supporting Employees/Enrollees in Maintaining and Improving Their Health Healthy Lifestyle Programs – Overview

Volpp KG, Asch DA, Galvin R, Loewenstein G. Redesigning employee health incentives – Lessons from behavioral economics. New England Journal of Medicine 2011;365(5):388-390.

Pollitz K, Rae M. Workplace wellness programs characteristics and requirements. The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Issue Brief, May 2016.

Appleby, J. Workers’ poor health costs employers $344 billion, study finds. KHN Blog, September 14, 2012.

**Evidence of Program Effectiveness

Pho, K. Do corporate wellness programs work? USA Today, September 9, 2013.

*Examples

Henke RM, Goetzel RZ, McHugh J, Isaac F. Recent experience in health promotion at Johnson & Johnson: Lower health spending, strong return on investment. Health Affairs 2011;30(3):490-499.

**Concerns about Program Incentives

Singer N. Rules sought for workplace wellness questionnaires. The New York Times, September 24, 2013.

Horwitz JR, Kelly BD, DiNardo JE. Wellness incentives in the workplace: Cost savings through cost shifting to unhealthy workers. Health Affairs 2013;32(3):468-476.

Reuters. Coming soon to a workplace near you: ‘Wellness or else’. The New York Times, January 13, 2015.

*Examples

USA Today. Not hiring smokers crosses privacy line. Editorial, January 29, 2012.

**Health Reform and Wellness

Jost T. Implementing health reform: Workplace wellness programs. Health Affairs Blog, May 29, 2013

**Supporting Employees/Enrollees in Managing Chronic Illness
Importance of Developing Effective Approaches to Chronic Illness Management.

Steenhuysen J. U.S. diabetes cases to double, costs triple by 2034. Reuters, November 27, 2009.

Sklaroff S. On our own. Why we who struggle to live with diabetes could use a helping hand. Health Affairs 2012;31(1):236-239.

**Self-Management of Illnesses

Health Affairs. Patient engagement. People actively involved in their health and health care tend to have better outcomes-and, some evidence suggests, lower costs. Health Policy Brief, February 14,
2013.

Bodenheimer T, Lorig K, Holman H, Grumbach K. Patient self-management of chronic disease in primary care. JAMA 2002;288(19):2469-2475.