Prudential Financial wanted a health promotion service for its employees that would also reach out to employee dependants. Prudential’s health plan, LifeCare, chose Matria to provide the health promotion service through LifeCare’s Life Event Management® Services. The service offers diet, nutrition and fitness programs to reduce risk of illness and lower claims costs for Prudential Financial employees. Matria collaborated with LifeCare to develop a fully integrated health promotion program easily accessible to Prudential employees and their dependants through LifeCare’s Web site. By leveraging LifeCare’s Web platform to host the program, Prudential enabled employees to register their dependants for all program services. This is especially important since dependants contribute to Prudential’s total healthcare costs.

Prudential’s Health and Wellness team was particularly interested in adding diet and fitness programs that generated robust data, which would enable them to measure the efficacy of their overall health promotion services. By correlating these data points with claims data from their medical programs, Prudential can determine the effectiveness of their total health benefits plan. To that end, Matria is providing, in addition to its standard reports, a data feed to a third-party data firm that receives claims data from Prudential’s various employee healthcare carriers.

Matria works with Prudential to provide benchmarks for its population’s progress toward this claims-reduction measure. For the first year, progress will be based on aggregate employee participation (enrollment and completion of programs) in the WellCare HLPs, which Matria will report in detail through LifeCare on a monthly basis. In the second year, progress will be measured by changes in participants' body mass index (BMI)—a key measure of risk for chronic conditions such as heart disease and diabetes.

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