Analyzing the Impact of the Now iKnow Health Care Price Transparency Tool
This project aims to assess the impact of a web-based health care cost and quality tool that is being implemented by a health plan for its members. The study will focus on members working for medium to large employers that have more than 90% of employees enrolled in deductible and tiered network health plans. The study will use an interrupted time series (ITS) design that includes random allocation of half of these employers to a study arm that will receive enhanced promotion of the tool and a $500 lottery incentive for its use in order to increase take-up. With these two study groups (a "high-dose" group receiving enhanced promotion and a lottery, and a "low-dose" group receiving routine promotion of the tool), the study will be able to evaluate whether access to a price transparency tool leads to reduced costs and more value-driven member behavior, and whether extra promotion increases take-up.
Members in the high-dose group who use the tool will be eligible to enter a monthly lottery to win a $500 prize during the 12-month intervention period. In addition to the lottery, employers in the high-dose group will receive additional promotional strategies such as a mailing and messages through the plan's member web portal to promote the tool and the lottery, and e-mails and flyers for employers to promote the tool and lottery to employees.
The aims of this project are to: 1) examine take-up of the tool and factors that predict take-up; and 2) to examine the impact of the tool on total and out-of-pocket health care costs and utilization
Studieoversikt
Status
Studietype
Registrering (Faktiske)
Fase
- Ikke aktuelt
Kontakter og plasseringer
Studiesteder
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Massachusetts
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Wellesley, Massachusetts, Forente stater, 02481
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
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Deltakelseskriterier
Kvalifikasjonskriterier
Alder som er kvalifisert for studier
- Barn
- Voksen
- Eldre voksen
Tar imot friske frivillige
Kjønn som er kvalifisert for studier
Beskrivelse
Inclusion Criteria:
Health plan members from employers with at least 40 subscribers, of which at least 90% are currently in deductible plans or tiered network plans, and of which at least 80% were in deductible or tiered network plans in the prior year
Exclusion Criteria:
Members in non-group accounts and members in Medicare plans; members in states outside Massachusetts, New Hampshire, or Maine
Studieplan
Hvordan er studiet utformet?
Designdetaljer
- Primært formål: Helsetjenesteforskning
- Tildeling: Randomisert
- Intervensjonsmodell: Parallell tildeling
- Masking: Enkelt
Våpen og intervensjoner
Deltakergruppe / Arm |
Intervensjon / Behandling |
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Eksperimentell: lottery and enhanced promotion of tool
tool users in the intervention arm will be eligible to enter a monthly lottery to win one of two monthly drawings of a $500 gift card, and will receive enhanced promotion of the tool (mailed promotion, promotional message on the member web portal, and promotion through employers to employees)
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Intervention group is eligible to enter a monthly lottery to win a $500 gift card if they use the tool each month.
Intervention group also receives extra promotion of the tool through mailings, employer outreach, and automated phone calls
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Ingen inngripen: usual promotion of the tool
Routine promotion of the tool through newsletter and on health plan web site
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Hva måler studien?
Primære resultatmål
Resultatmål |
Tiltaksbeskrivelse |
Tidsramme |
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mean per-member-per-month total health care costs
Tidsramme: monthly for 12 months
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employer level per-member-per-month total costs based on claims data
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monthly for 12 months
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Sekundære resultatmål
Resultatmål |
Tiltaksbeskrivelse |
Tidsramme |
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percent of subjects using the tool
Tidsramme: measured quarterly for 12 months
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Based on tool usage tracking data
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measured quarterly for 12 months
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mean per-member-per-month out-of-pocket costs
Tidsramme: monthly for 12 months
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employer level per-member-per-month out-of-pocket costs based on claims data
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monthly for 12 months
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per-member-per-month utilization of health care services
Tidsramme: monthly for 12 months
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Employer-level utilization of health services based on claims data, including emergency department visits, encounters, lab services, radiology services, inpatient hospitalizations, MRIs, prescriptions
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monthly for 12 months
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Andre resultatmål
Resultatmål |
Tiltaksbeskrivelse |
Tidsramme |
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reasons for using the tool
Tidsramme: measured with each use of the tool, over 12 months
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based on survey report
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measured with each use of the tool, over 12 months
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Samarbeidspartnere og etterforskere
Sponsor
Samarbeidspartnere
Etterforskere
- Studieleder: Alison Galbraith, MD, MPH, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical Schooll
- Hovedetterforsker: Jonathan Gruber, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Studierekorddatoer
Studer hoveddatoer
Studiestart
Primær fullføring (Faktiske)
Studiet fullført (Faktiske)
Datoer for studieregistrering
Først innsendt
Først innsendt som oppfylte QC-kriteriene
Først lagt ut (Anslag)
Oppdateringer av studieposter
Sist oppdatering lagt ut (Anslag)
Siste oppdatering sendt inn som oppfylte QC-kriteriene
Sist bekreftet
Mer informasjon
Begreper knyttet til denne studien
Nøkkelord
Andre studie-ID-numre
- 5P30AG012810-20 (U.S. NIH-stipend/kontrakt)
- 5P01AG005842-27 (U.S. NIH-stipend/kontrakt)
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