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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 4.
Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2019 Mar;38(3):440–447. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05068

EXHIBIT 2.

Engagement with rewards program by intervention and comparison populations Intervention population

Intervention population
Price ($)
Patient used price shopping support tool for services received (%)
Intervention population
Mean 25th percentile 75th percentile Mean patient cost sharing ($) Intervention population Comparison population Services result in reward (%) Average reward ($)
All services 1,090 616 1,532 224 8.2 1.4 1.9 114
IMAGING SERVICES
CT scan 996 264 1,508 291 6.9 0.9 1.6 113
Mammogram 211 147 264 23 5.2 0.7 1.0 42
MRI 992 481 1,577 281 18.9 2.6 5.8 113
Ultrasound 270 123 366 125 3.3 0.9 0.4 41
Other imaging 594 324 817 68 3.2 0.4 0.8 85
INVASIVE PROCEDURES
Endoscopy 1,244 772 1,524 210 10.2 2.1 1.9 172
Minor procedures 1,224 545 1,774 357 3.0 0.8 0.6 101
Moderate procedures 2,824 1,735 3,931 565 8.3 2.6 1.5 132
Major procedures 26,409 21,107 35,277 1,158 15.4 6.2 1.7 408

SOURCE Authors’ analysis of medical claims data for 2015–17 from Health Care Service Corporation employers. NOTES Prices are in 2016 dollars. A full list of services included in each category is in the appendix (see note 19 in text). Price percentiles were calculated across all markets. Market-specific ratios are in appendix exhibit 2. The intervention and comparison populations are defined in the text. CT is computed tomography. MRI is magnetic resonance imaging.