IncentOne (http://www.incentone.com), the leading provider of incentive solutions to the healthcare industry, and Discern Consulting, a firm specializing in the development and implementation of provider pay-for-performance programs, have partnered to deliver "the science of health incentives". The collaboration will establish the standard framework for assessing the return-on-investment of health incentive programs. The results will support the integration of incentives for both consumers and providers into a single, synchronized system.
Both IncentOne and Discern bring critical capabilities to the collaboration. Discern's clients include national leaders in value-based purchasing and pay-for-performance, for whom Discern has supported program design, implementation, and ROI analysis. Discern's president Guy D'Andrea was previously a senior vice president at URAC, where he was responsible for developing the quality standards used in various accreditation programs. Mr. D'Andrea recently co-authored papers on health reform and value-based purchasing that appeared in Health Affairs and The American Journal of Managed Care.
IncentOne's programs have driven the achievement of over four million health milestones. IncentOne administers broad-based health incentive solutions for the most innovative health plans, health service companies, PBMs and employers. Through its Healthy Choice Award(TM) and Health Power(TM) platforms, IncentOne integrates with over 300 health data partners and has amassed millions of records of participation, behavior change and outcome data. IncentOne's business model and platform is not dependent on the use any specific incentive type. As a result, IncentOne administers all incentive types (premiums, value-based benefits, gift cards, debit cards) and provides an independent source of data of the effectiveness of these programs. IncentOne has also built an extensive data set of incentive programs administered by third parties.