Without the proper wellness program strategy, No health and wellness incentive promotion is guaranteed success. However, this doesn’t mean it has to be a complicated process. When making changes to an existing program or setting up a new one, if you cover the basics and work with experienced experts, you’ll find that your program is well on its way to success. It is essential to your program’s success that you ensure proper planning is aimed toward increasing participation in your health and wellness program. Listed below are a few basics to help guide you to boost participation rates for your health and wellness platform. -You need a well-designed and thought-out program where candidates can reach their goals. -The more participants, the better for your program. When building your program’s timeline, allow a sufficient amount of time to build up interest and excitement (several weeks or so) for your health and wellness program. A number of educational information and announcements released over the course of your build-up period will increase interest. Examples can include: Helpful Tips: -Use attractive visual presentations -Demonstrate a few examples of what to expect -Pass out questionnaires and enrollment packets for those who would like to enroll […]
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Trends in Wellness and Travel For Incentive Programs
Health and wellness is at the top of mind for many people these days, including incentive program managers. The Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) recently released a report going over some of the current trends in health and wellness, as it pertains to travel incentives. Their report focused on meetings in particular, but their findings apply to health and travel incentives on a far broader scale. Travel incentives are a common type of experiential reward. In the past, experiential rewards have been very popular among incentive program participants, but since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, these incentives present some unique challenges. Participants want to know that they can enjoy their travel incentive without risking their health. The IRF found that answers to the following concerns were very important to communicate to participants. Cleaning standards: Participants need to know what level of cleanliness they can expect from their travel locations. Consistency of health safety protocols: It is one thing to have health and safety standards, but participants need to know how strictly and consistently they are enforced. Masks: Will all visitors be required to wear masks? Only vaccinated visitors? No one at all? These are questions that participants will want the […]
A Corporate Health and Wellness Program’s Secret Weapon: Incentives
Creating a company health and wellness program is a fantastic way to raise work performance, company morale, and lower healthcare costs. When a health and wellness plan is strategically organized and implemented, it can increase your sales, reduce employee absences, and lower workers’ comp/disability costs. An effective health and wellness program requires high levels of employee participation. The secret to increasing health and wellness program participation is to include incentives. Not just any incentives. You need the right incentives for your demographics at the right price point. Health and wellness program incentives rewards suppliers can provide batch and bulk visa prepaid cards, merchandise, experiential rewards, eGift cards, and other digital incentives. Digital reward vendors, like All Digital Rewards, have the rewards incentives programs need and will be able to select rewards that will fit your budget and demographic needs. You also need to have support software to manage your program. The right health and wellness technology can make managing your program easy. Without it, it can be a nightmare sorting everything out. If you’re looking for reward management software, All Digital Rewards provides reward management applications and software that can fit any incentive program. Additionally, there are a number of […]
Live Well Reward ™ Card – Health Reward Card backed by VISA
Health and wellness incentive programs have been proven to be an effective way to create a healthier, more productive workplace. One of the most popular ways to reward health and wellness program participants are with Health Benefit Cards ie. prepaid rewards cards. These cards are popular because of their ease of use, perceived value, and universal acceptance. Additionally, health and wellness incentive programs that use prepaid cards for their rewards show high levels of engagement amongst participants. A quality health and wellness incentive rewards program management company can create fully customized and branded rewards cards for your company’s health and wellness incentive program. At All Digital Rewards, we recognize and appreciate your commitment to improving your participant’s health and wellness. With our Live Well Reward ™ card you can go beyond traditional health reward cards. Live Well Reward ™ cards allow you to reward your health and wellness program participants as they complete program objectives, such as check-ups, screenings, or wellness visits. Each time participants complete their objectives, cash will be added to their Live Well Reward ™ card, which they can then spend like using a debit card. We partner with Visa® to offer a wide variety of prepaid […]
Guide To A Successful Health and Wellness Incentive Program
No health and wellness incentive promotion is foolproof without the proper wellness program strategy. It doesn’t have to be a complicated process as long as you cover the basics when setting up or making changes to an existing program. First and foremost, without a sufficient amount of participants in the program, the results will be less than adequate. It is fundamental to your program to ensure proper planning is met to increase participation in your health and wellness program. Listed below are a few basics to help guide you to boost participation rates for your health and wellness platform. -You need a well designed and thought out program where candidates can reach their goals. -The more candidates, the better. Allow sufficient amount of time to build up interest (several weeks or so) for your health and wellness program. A string of educational information and announcements released over the course of your build up period will peak interest. Examples include: -Use a visual presentation -Demonstrate a few examples -Pass out questionnaires and enrollment packets for those who would like to enroll on the spot -If applicable, prepare testimonies for those who have already participated in the program Create a small market […]
Best Practices for Workplace Health and Wellness Incentive Programs
Understanding what you can and cannot do with participation incentives with the enforcement of the Affordable Health Care Act can be a slippery slope if you are not well informed. The Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury have revised the rules on wellness programs to reflect the changes and clarifications to the existing health and wellness provisions made by the health care law. What does that mean to you? Simple. It is more important than ever, to understand what changes have taken place (and stay current) when developing and revising a health and wellness program in group health coverage. Is it been appropriately designed, and does it protect your participants? These discounts represent two significant differences from most wellness incentives once offered by employers and health plans: the incentives are now focused on outcomes rather than participation, and the magnitude of the discount is much greater. Here are some rules to consider: It is important to protect consumers from unfair practices; regulations are in place to require health-contingent wellness programs to follow certain rules, including: Whether you are a self-insured company or a health and wellness provider, there are published rules that specify the types […]
