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. 2018 Jun;60(6):507-514.
doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000001305.

The Correlation of a Corporate Culture of Health Assessment Score and Health Care Cost Trend

Raymond Fabius  1 , Sharon Glave Frazee, Dixon Thayer, David Kirshenbaum, Jim Reynolds
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The Correlation of a Corporate Culture of Health Assessment Score and Health Care Cost Trend

Raymond Fabius et al. J Occup Environ Med. 2018 Jun.

Abstract

Objective: Employers that strive to create a corporate environment that fosters a culture of health often face challenges when trying to determine the impact of improvements on health care cost trends. This study aims to test the stability of the correlation between health care cost trend and corporate health assessment scores (CHAS) using a culture of health measurement tool.

Methods: Correlation analysis of annual health care cost trend and CHAS on a small group of employers using a proprietary CHAS tool.

Results: Higher CHAS scores are generally correlated with lower health care cost trend. For employers with several years of CHAS measurements, this correlation remains, although imperfectly.

Conclusion: As culture of health scores improve, health care costs trends moderate. These findings provide further evidence of the inverse relationship between organizational CHAS performance and health care cost trend.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no conflicts of interest.

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Corporate health assessment score frequency distribution.
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Health care cost trend frequency distribution.
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Corporate health assessment score by health care cost trend.
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Corporate health assessment score and health care cost trend organizations with multiple years of data.
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Corporate health assessment score and health care trend by organization.
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Projected 10-year per member per year savings from 1% annual reduction in health care cost trend.
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Continuum of employee performance deterioration.
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