Analyzing the Impact of the Now iKnow Health Care Price Transparency Tool

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

81000 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2014-08-31

Study Completion Date

2015-12-31

Brief Summary

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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

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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no Specific Condition Targeted Use of a Price Transparency Tool

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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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)

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

lottery for tool users to win a $500 prize

Intervention Type OTHER

Intervention group is eligible to enter a monthly lottery to win a $500 gift card if they use the tool each month.

enhanced promotion of the tool to employers and members

Intervention Type OTHER

Intervention group also receives extra promotion of the tool through mailings, employer outreach, and automated phone calls

usual promotion of the tool

Routine promotion of the tool through newsletter and on health plan web site

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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lottery for tool users to win a $500 prize

Intervention group is eligible to enter a monthly lottery to win a $500 gift card if they use the tool each month.

Intervention Type OTHER

enhanced promotion of the tool to employers and members

Intervention group also receives extra promotion of the tool through mailings, employer outreach, and automated phone calls

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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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