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Walgreens Balance Rewards for healthy choices® encourages members to take small steps toward long-lasting behavior changes. Rewarding healthy goals and behaviors makes it easier to sustain success and a healthy lifestyle.
Balance Rewards for healthy choices overview
Research shows that preventable illness makes up 70 percent or more of total healthcare costs. 1
Balance Rewards for healthy choices® encourages participants to join 4-week physical activity and healthy lifestyle challenges. These challenges encourage positive behaviors that may lead to reduced healthcare costs for participants, their employers and payers.
Here are some examples of how members earn Balance® Rewards points for taking actions that lead to better health:2
250 points for linking a
health app or device
(one-time reward per device, maximum 500 points per month)
(one-time reward per device, maximum 500 points per month)
100 points each week a
healthy challenge is completed
(limit one log (maximum of 400 points total per challenge)
(limit one log (maximum of 400 points total per challenge)
BONUS prize wheel spin worth up to 2000 points
(earned when all 4 challenge weeks are completed)
(earned when all 4 challenge weeks are completed)
Participant Success
Among those tracking weight with Balance Rewards for healthy choices®, a majority recorded weight loss within 12 months. More than 29 percent lost at least 10 pounds and approximately 30 percent achieved clinically significant weight loss.3
Members who logged blood pressure or blood glucose were more likely to adhere to their medication regimen3.
Health & Wellness Research
Small Step, Big Benefits: Improve population health and reduce costs by incentivizing members to make healthy choices
Self-monitoring utilization patterns among individuals in an incentivized program for healthy behaviors
The relationship between online activity & biometric tracking and medication adherence among members with diabetes
The association between participation in a community pharmacy's digital health program and flu vaccination rates
SBM 2016 Pill Reminder: The association between use of a community pharmacy's mobile pill reminder app and medication adherence
The relationship between digital health program activity tracking and medication adherence among members age 50+ years
The relationship between online activity & biometric tracking and medication adherence among members with hypertension
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References
Balance Rewards for healthy choices® overview
1. Fries JF, Koop CE, Beadle CE, et al. Reducing health care costs by reducing the need and demand for medical services. The Health Project Consortium. N Engl J Med. 1993;329(5):321-325. 2. Points may be limited per the terms and conditions of the program. Information provided to Walgreens online is covered by the terms of our Online Privacy and Security Policy and the terms and conditions of Balance® Rewards. Personally identifiable information is not covered under HIPAA or the Walgreens Notice of Privacy Practices. For full program terms and conditions, visit Walgreens.com/healthychoices.
Participant success
3. Akinbosoye O, Taylor D, Jiang J, Taitel M, Orr G. The relationship between digital health program activity tracking and medication adherence among members age 50+ years. Presented at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy Annual Meeting; April 19-22, 2016; San Francisco, CA.