{"id":1161,"date":"2025-08-21T09:58:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2025-08-04T10:35:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:35:53","slug":"1161","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"Got Health Erosion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva;\">Everyone does. Health Erosion is that tendency in any member population to undergo the predictable slide from low risk to medium risk, or from medium risk to high risk each year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva;\">What We Say:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva;\">Preventing health erosion is a primary bene\ufb01t of proactive programs.\u00a0It keeps the healthy people healthy!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva;\">What Employers Hear:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva;\">Yes, but unless you know which members will move into a higher risk category, you have no idea<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva;\">whether<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva;\">by how much, or<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva;\">in what way<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva;\">your proactive program did anything at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva;\">To reduce that uncertainty, it&#8217;s important to have a quantitative metric for emerging risk. This \u201cmover\u201d index shows exactly those in a given population who are the most likely to transition between risk categories over the upcoming months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva;\">Importantly, a rolling average of repeated measurements can show trends over time, and can\u00a0also anticipate changes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva;\">Once you have that, then you just do the math.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva;\">Correlate each member\u2019s mover index with the programs they engage with to show which proactive programs reduce health erosion across risk categories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva;\">With these numbers, you give clients a rational basis for choosing proactive programs. Without them, it&#8217;s no surprise when they don&#8217;t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva;\">Link to Full Article in the Journal of Compensation and Benefits:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva;\">https:\/\/wp.me\/p9kBci-in<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone does. Health Erosion is that tendency in any member population to undergo the predictable slide from low risk to medium risk, or from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9kBci-1161","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/Medwell_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}