Association of Medicaid Healthy Behavior Incentive Programs With Smoking Cessation, Weight Loss, and Annual Preventive Health Visits | Zendy

Sarah Huf | Zendy; Kevin G. Volpp | Zendy; David A. Asch | Zendy; Elizabeth F. Bair | Zendy; Atheendar Venkataramani | Zendy

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Association of Medicaid Healthy Behavior Incentive Programs With Smoking Cessation, Weight Loss, and Annual Preventive Health Visits

Author(s) -

Sarah Huf,

Kevin G. Volpp,

David A. Asch,

Elizabeth F. Bair,

Atheendar Venkataramani

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

jama network open

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.278

H-Index - 39

ISSN - 2574-3805

DOI - 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.6185

Subject(s) - behavioral risk factor surveillance system , medicaid , medicine , smoking cessation , attendance , incentive , gerontology , environmental health , obesity , demography , cohort , health care , population , pathology , sociology , economics , microeconomics , economic growth

Key Points Question Are Medicaid Healthy Behavior Incentive Programs associated with improvements in healthy behaviors and population health? Findings In this cohort study based on data from 442 089 low-income individuals and 676 883 individuals with a high school education or less, there were no significant improvements in incentivized behaviors, such as smoking cessation or weight loss, in either group. An association was found between an increased rate of annual health checkups, but the association was not robust across models. Meaning Medicaid Healthy Behavior Incentive Programs appear to have had little, if any, positive association with key health behaviors in the first 2 years of implementation.

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