Click below to learn about Navistar’s multi-faceted measurement and management approach to workplace wellness during the 1998-2009 period.  Studies linked this approach to double-digit reductions in the drivers and costs of lost productivity and healthcare utilization.

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• Reducing Total Health Burden From 2001 to 2009: An Employer Counter-Trend Success Story and Its Implications for Health Care Reform

       Allen H, Rogers W,Bunn W, et al

       J Occup Environ Med. 54(8):904-916, August 2012.

 

• How to Align Evidence-Based Benefit Design With the Employer Bottom-Line: A Case Study

      Bunn W, Allen H, Stave G et al

      J Occup Environ Med. 52(10):956-963, October 2010.

 

• Success Overlooked—Navistar, 1999 to 2009: The Huge Impact an Employer's Approach to Wellness Can Have on Health Care Costs and Sustained Value

      Allen H

      J Occup Environ Med. 57(1):e3-e7, January 2015

 

Click below for three recent studies, each conducted by a different investigator team, that modeled the stock market performance of employers with high-performing wellness programs vs. the S&P 500.  Using similar methods, which established association but not necessarily causation, each study found that its employer portfolio outperformed the S&P by 8 to 16% per year.

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• Tracking the Market Performance of Companies That Integrate a Culture of Health and Safety: An Assessment of Corporate Health Achievement Award Applicants

      Fabius R, Loeppke R, Hohn T, et al

      J Occup Environ Med. 58(1):3-8, January 2016.

 

• The Stock Performance of C. Everett Koop Award Winners Compared With the Standard & Poor's 500 Index

      Goetzel R, Fabius R, Fabius D, et al,

      J Occup Environ Med. 58(1):9-15, January 2016.

 

• Linking Workplace Health Promotion Best Practices and Organizational Financial Performance: Tracking Market Performance of Companies With Highest Scores on the HERO Scorecard

      Grossmeier R, Fabius R, Flynn J, et al

      J Occup Environ Med. 58(1):16-23, January 2016.

 

• Is There a Link Between Stock Market Price Growth and Having a Great Employee Wellness Program? Maybe

      O’Donnell M

      J Occup Environ Med. 58(1):e18-e20, January 2016.  

Click below to learn about the University of Utah Health System’s value-driven outcomes program. This approach was linked to significant gains in quality and reductions in costs in three areas from 2012 to 2016: total joint replacement, hospital lab-testing, and sepsis intervention.

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• Implementation of a Value-Driven Outcomes Program to Identify High Variability in Clinical Costs and Outcomes and Association With Reduced Cost and Improved Quality

      Lee V, Kawamoto K, Hess R, et al

      JAMA. 2016;316(10):1061-1072. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.12226

 

• From Volume to Value in Health Care:

      Porter M, Lee T

      JAMA. 2016;316(10):1047-1048. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.11698

 

• Value-Driven Outcomes Program and Health Care Cost and Quality

      Author interviews:Lee V, Porter M

      JAMA, Sept 13, 2016