To make your proposal for the MedEncentive evaluation grant, please respond to the following questionnaire. Please be concise with your responses. If you have questions, please refer to the FAQ section or email your question to jdempster@medencentive.com.

 

1. Describe your understanding of the MedEncentive Program and what aspects of the Program do you believe are most important.
2. Describe your project’s primary interest: cost containment, healthcare quality improvement, patient compliance.
3. Explain your project’s desired outcome as a result of this project.
4. Describe your membership’s interest in incentives to drive healthcare costs containment.
5. Describe how your coalition/plan will aggregate at least 5,000 plan members for the study. (List the employers who want to participate in this project and are prepared to adopt MedEncentive.)
6. Describe your employers’ understanding of the required commitment to adopt MedEncentive in conjunction with this project their willingness and capability to invest and participate in this evaluation.
7. Describe the demographics of your evaluation population. (Extra consideration will be given to diverse populations.)
8. Describe your members’ understanding of a Culture of Health (COH) and their commitment to adopt some or all of the COH criteria.  (Refer to the Culture of Health section of this grant.)
9. Describe your members’ interest in participating in gain share actual cost savings in exchange for discounted services. Indicate the amount your members would be willing to share in any gains.
10. Describe how quickly your coalition/plan can launch your project. (Include a description of any assistance you will needed from MedEncentive.)
11. Describe your relationship with third party administrators (TPAs) and their willingness to collaborate in your project.  (TPAs merely need to electronically forward employer claim copies in industry standard formats to MedEncentive, daily, and processing reward payments from electronic notices from MedEncentive, weekly.
12. Please list the participating TPAs and contact information.
13. Describe your coalition/plan’s relationship with local physician organizations, especially primary care and their potential interest in participating. (MedEncentive has a number of physician references and other resources to help recruit local physician participation. Explain how MedEncentive can assist in recruiting physicians to your project.)
14. Describe your coalition/plan’s relationship with potential research organizations (local universities) and if these organizations may be interested in participating in the evaluation.
15. Describe your coalition/plan’s ability to analyze cost data and isolate cost variables.
16. Indicate whether your evaluation will be against historical baseline or against a concurrent control group or both.
17. Indicate your project’s interest and capability to measure clinical outcomes and quality improvement.
18. Indicate your coalition/plan’s ability to analyze MedEncentive participation rates by doctors and patients and satisfaction levels.
19. Indicate if your project is interest in adopting other MedEncentive programs such as the e-Prescribing/Medication Compliance Program, Health Risk Assessment Program, or others intervention such as DM, patient-centered medical health home, personal health records, pre-certification, etc.
20. Indicate your project’s interest and ability to attract additional evaluation funding.
21. Describe any other major projects in which your coalition/plan is involved.
22. Describe your coalition/plan’s experience with evaluations similar to MedEncentive’s.
23. Please provide the names, qualifications and roles of those planning to participate in your project and their relationship to your coalition/plan.
24. Please provide a brief budget (indicate any financial contributions by your organizations to complete the project.
25. Please indicate if you plan to use part of the funding to reward employer members for their participation in the project (such as discounting membership dues for participants, etc.).