VAL Health’s consulting teams create actionable and impactful solutions for employers. Explore how we drive awareness of health and wellness benefits and appropriate use for your employees.
Drive Engagement
GOALS
- Improve use of wellness and condition management programs
- Increase health portal and employee tool use
- Drive completion of HRAs and annual wellness visits
SPOTLIGHT EXAMPLE
Are your employees not using your wellness offerings?
A Fortune 50 company focused on building a culture of health partnered with us to increase wellness program engagement. Drawing from our Behavioral Economics Toolkit, we created a calendar-year strategy, including employee communications and financial and nonfinancial incentives, to:- Drive biometric screenings and PCP visits
- Increase wellbeing program engagement
- Sign up for team-based challenges
Improve Benefits Comprehension
GOALS
- Develop employee communications strategy
- Enhance benefits messaging
- Steer appropriate use of high- and low-value services
SPOTLIGHT EXAMPLE
Do you want to steer employees to appropriate care settings?
To increase employee use of cost-effective care settings, we created a multi-pronged behavior change program. Using our Behavioral Economics Toolkit, we designed emails, direct mail, posters, and financial incentives to:- Increase awareness of alternative sites of care
- Drive telehealth adoption for non-urgent conditions
- Increase Center of Excellence use for specified surgical procedures
Influence Plan Selection and Use
GOALS
- Increase adoption of preferred plans
- Increase HSA adoption and contributions
- Direct employees to appropriate care setting
SPOTLIGHT EXAMPLE
Do you want to nudge employee plan selection?
To increase acceptance and selection of consumer-directed health plans, we drew on our Behavioral Economics Toolkit to redesign the framing and presentation of plans during open enrollments. The solution influenced employees to:- Increase the selection rate of HDHPs over traditional PPO plans
- Boost HSA contributions
Enhance Financial Incentives Programs
GOALS
- Improve participation
- Sustain engagement
- Lower incentives spend
SPOTLIGHT EXAMPLE
Do you need to effectively use your incentives budget?
To help a large government employer achieve its target health risk assessment (HRA) completion rate, we implemented our turnkey incentives platform, VAL Health Rewards. This led to:- 2.4x participation rate compared to a traditional fixed value incentive
- 47% cost savings per HRA completion
Sample deliverables
Benefits communications
Health plan design
Wellness program strategy
Financial incentives
Pilot testing