#35: Earn 150+ total rewards health points.

Date Completed:  3/22/2010

With all the buzz related to health reform today, I suppose this is a fitting blog post. In an effort to continue to promote healthy lifestyles and wellness, my company offered a health incentive promotion this year, linked to a point system. Any employee who performs selected “health actions” and either achieves test results within clinical practice guidelines, or completes a health education program (if test results were not acceptable), earns points. A total of 75 points equates to a $225 credit toward 2011 healthcare premiums. A total of 150 points equates to $450 off premiums. As always, if it’s even remotely competitive or there’s money on the table, I’m in. So, I completed my six health actions and being somewhat of an overachiever, earned 175 points:

- Wellness visit (25 points)
- Target BMI (50 points)
- Target LDL (25 points)
- Target fasting blood sugar (25 points)
- Target blood pressure (25 points)
- Cervical cancer screening (25 points)

Aside from having to find time in my schedule to tackle each of these, it was a piece of cake…which, incidentally, sounds good right about now.