Can Incentives Improve Medicaid Patient Engagement and Prevent Chronic Diseases? | Zendy

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Can Incentives Improve Medicaid Patient Engagement and Prevent Chronic Diseases?

Author(s) -

Thomas J. Hoerger,

Rebecca Perry,

Kathleen Farrell,

Stephanie Teixeira-Poit

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

north carolina medical journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.283

H-Index - 24

eISSN - 2379-4313

pISSN - 0029-2559

DOI - 10.18043/ncm.76.3.180

Subject(s) - medicaid , incentive , medicine , incentive program , diabetes mellitus , work (physics) , environmental health , business , health care , economics , economic growth , mechanical engineering , endocrinology , microeconomics , engineering

Under the Medicaid Incentives for the Prevention of Chronic Diseases model, 10 states are testing whether incentives can encourage Medicaid beneficiaries to lose weight, stop smoking, work to prevent diabetes, or control risk factors for other chronic diseases. This commentary describes these incentive programs and how they will be evaluated.

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