Six health-focused organizations have collaborated on a document meant to guide managers of workplace wellness programs that utilize incentives. The document is published in the July issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and the organizations say it aims to ensure programs use outcomes-based incentives and are effective, fair to all employees, and improve health results.
The organizations are the Health Enhancement Research Organization, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the American Cancer Society, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, the American Diabetes Association, and the American Heart Association. They said the use of outcomes-based incentives (defined as rewarding an employee financially for meeting a specific health outcome or penalizing him or her for failing to meet it) will become more common in U.S. workplaces because the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act encourages their use. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld that law as constitutional last month; many of its provisions take effect in 2014.
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