Oregon Educators Benefit Board...• Weight Watchers®-- All three OEBB medical carriers (regardless...

Place Your Logo Here - Align Center

Oregon Educators Benefit Board

151,592 Pounds Lighter and

2012 Oregon School Employee Wellness/Education ConferencePresented by: Denise L. Hall, Deputy Administrator

Saturday, June 2, 12


Agenda

• Why did OEBB add a weight management program?

• Components of the OEBB Weight Management Program and recent changes

• Why Weight Watchers®........?

• Results



Why OEBB included a weight management program in all medical plans………….

• The Board has a special workgroup that focuses on ensuring benefit plans offered to educational employees participating in the OEBB benefits program provide high-quality, evidence-based benefits – the Strategies on Evidence and Outcomes Workgroup (SEOW).

• Two of the OEBB Board’s guiding principles are to provide members with plan options that are both affordable and that improve their overall health.

• A 2009 health status survey found that 62 percent of OEBB members were either overweight or obese.




• Overweight and obesity have a significant economic burden through increased medical costs and lost productivity.

• Overweight and obesity is associated with a number of chronic diseases including diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure.

• Overweight and obesity also have a significant impact on an individual’s mental and emotional well-being.




• OEBB wanted to find a way to help:

• Reduce the toll overweight and obesity was taking on the physical and mental health and well-being of Oregon’s school employees and their families; and

• Reduce the impact overweight and obesity was having on the OEBB medical premiums and productivity in Oregon’s schools.



Components of the OEBB Weight Management Program………….

• Health coaching – all three OEBB medical carriers provide access to health coaches specifically geared toward helping members lose weight or maintain a healthy weight.

• Educational resources – all three OEBB medical carriers have nutritional, weight loss and weight management education information available to all members free of charge.

• Provider assessment and screening – all three OEBB medical carriers cover the cost of an annual weight-related assessment and/or screening in full when using an in-network provider.



Components of the OEBB Weight Management Program………….• Weight Watchers® -- All three OEBB medical carriers (regardless of

the plan option selected) pay for participation in Weight Watchers® .

ü Options include At Work meetings, local community meetings and online sessions

ü Sessions last 13 weeks and eligible members can have up to four 13-week sessions paid in full per year

ü Must attend at least 10 of the 13 weeks per session to have the next session covered

• Beginning October 1, 2011, Weight Watchers® benefit was expanded to include all covered dependents (spouses, domestic partners and children) age 10 and over.1

1Some restrictions apply to children age 10 to 16



Why Weight Watchers® …… in the beginning?

ü The Weight Watchers® program combines dietary therapy, exercise and behavioral skills to provide members with the capability to set and maintain weight loss goals.

ü The Weight Watchers® program is accessible to more than 90 percent of all OEBB members.

v Services available at the worksite, through local community meetings and online

ü The Weight Watchers® program is supported by clinical and scientific evidence.



Why Weight Watchers® …… and why expand eligibility to dependents?

üRESULTS

üRESULTS

üRESULTSSaturday, June 2, 12


Results………..ü Total number of OEBB members participating in Weight Watchers®

since implementation on October 1, 2009 = 12,181

ü Total weight loss recorded at Weight Watchers® worksite meetings

since October 1, 2009 = 127,098 poundsv Average weight loss per member per quarter = 8.6 poundsv Members achieving 10 percent weight loss = 1,476v Members reaching goal weight – 231v Members achieving lifetime membership = 331



Results………..ü OEBB participates in a biannual health status survey (Behavioral

Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Survey)

ü In 2009, 29 percent of Oregon educators surveyed self-reported their Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 kg/m2 or higher (i.e., meeting the criteria for obese)

ü Preliminary results from the recently concluded 2011 survey indicate that the percentage of Oregon educators that are considered obese declined to 23 percent. (Yes, that’s a six percent decrease in two years!)

ü Preliminary results from the recently concluded 2011 survey also indicate that 31 percent of the sampled employees reported losing weight in the past year with a mean loss of 18 pounds.



Results………..ü 25 percent of the employees participating in the BRFFS survey

reported that they participated in Weight Watchers ®, health coaching or online resources available through the OEBB benefits program.

ü More than 90 percent of those employees reported Weight Watchers® as the resource they used.

Amazing and exciting results………!!!!!!

ü In 2011, 42 percent of the employees surveyed were found to be at a “healthy” weight, up from 37 percent in 2009 .



OEBB Wrap-up

ü OEBB is proud to be able to offer benefits that provide tools for Oregon’s educators and their families to be healthier.

ü OEBB is proud to be able to partner with our health carriers and the Weight Watchers® program to make a weight management program accessible to more than 90 percent of all OEBB members.

ü OEBB is also proud to know that the increased participation in the Weight Watchers® program by OEBB members has often expanded to include new opportunities for communities to participate in a weight management program that is supported by clinical and scientific research.



OEBB Wrap-up

ü While the Weight Watchers® benefit clearly plays a major role in the success of the OEBB weight management program, there are other ways we can all support employee health and wellness.

ü We need to remember to be open-minded and creative and to have some fun as we pursue better health.

http://www.oregon.gov/OHA/OEBB/healthinfo/videos.shtml





Thank you!For more information about the OEBB Weight Management Program go to:

http://www.oregon.gov/OHA/OEBB/WeightMgmt.shtml


Because it works for >Oregon


AGENDA

PROBLEM OF OBESITY

WEIGHT WATCHERS OVERVIEW

OUR CLINICAL HERITAGE

2Saturday, June 2, 12

PROBLEM OF OBESITY


PROCESS OF SUSTAINABLY REDUCING OBESITY IS NOT EASY


NEED TREATMENT OPTIONS THAT MEET A SET OF DEFINED CRITERIA


WEIGHT WATCHERS MEETINGS ARE THE IDEAL FOUNDATION FOR BUILDING THE FORCE IN GLOBAL WEIGHT MANAGEMENT


WEIGHT WATCHERS OVERVIEW


JEAN NIDETCH

– WEIGHT WATCHERS WAS INCORPORATED IN 1963

– A SELF-DESCRIBED “FAT HOUSEWIFE”

– BELIEVED SUPPORT WAS A KEY TO LONG-TERM WEIGHT LOSS SUCCESS

– LOST 72 LBS AND INSPIRED HUNDREDS TO JOIN BY WORD OF MOUTH


WHO WE ARE– THE LEADING GLOBAL WEIGHT MANAGEMENT BRAND FOR

NEARLY 50 YEARS– WE TEACH PEOPLE TO LOSE WEIGHT WITH HEALTHY

LIFESTYLE CHOICES


POWER OF THE BRAND

– 6 MM PEOPLE ARE TOUCHED BY OUR BRAND EACH YEAR – PEOPLE RELATE TO IT, TRUST IT, LOVE IT


WHAT MAKES OUR APPROACH DIFFERENT

– FOCUSES ON NUTRITION, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND LONG-TERM BEHAVIOR CHANGE – SUSTAINABLE CHANGE TO A HEALTHIER LIFESTYLE VS QUICK FIX DIET – COST EFFECTIVE SOLUTION THAT IS SCALABLE ACROSS YOUR WHOLE POPULATION– EFFECTIVELY COMPLEMENTS ALL MEDICAL-BASED APPROACHES

DIET & NUTRITION

ACTIVITY BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION

SUPPORT


IN CONTROL

– YOUR DAILY POINTSPLUS TARGET TELLS YOU HOW MUCH TO EAT DAILY


SIMPLIFIED


FLEXIBLE

– 49 EXTRA WEEKLY POINTSPLUS VALUES


ENERGIZED

– ACTIVITY =


ENERGIZED


AWARE


TOGETHER

– MEETINGS – ONLINE

=


RECAP

– YOU GET A PERSONALIZED DAILY POINTSPLUS TARGET

– EVERY FOOD HAS A POINTSPLUS VALUE– 49 EXTRA POINTSPLUS VALUES PER WEEK

ALLOW FLEXIBILITY– EARN ADDITIONAL POINTSPLUS VALUES BY

BEING ACTIVE– TO STAY ON TOP OF IT ALL, YOU KEEP TRACK – YOU ATTEND A MEETING OR UTILIZE AND/OR

UTILIZE WEIGHT WATCHERS ONLINE TOOLS

WEIGHT LOSS OF 1/2 TO 2 LBS PER WEEK

=

+


B E C A U S E I T W O R K S

IN 2012, WE’LL GIVE PEOPLE TWO REALLY POWERFUL THINGS TO BELIEVE IN…..

WEIGHT WATCHERS & THEMSELVES


JENNIFER HUDSON CHARLES BARKLEY


WEIGHT WATCHERS ONLINE


28

DR. OZ’S TRANSFORMATION NATION

– PARTNERSHIP WITH DR. OZ’S TRANSFORMATION NATION: MILLION DOLLAR YOU” HEALTH REVOLUTION

– WEIGHT WATCHERS IS AN INTEGRAL COMPONENT OF CHALLENGE - INCLUDING WEIGH IN AT WEIGHT WATCHERS CENTERS

– PARTNERSHIP INCLUDES 11 TOTAL INTEGRATIONS, 6 OF WHICH ARE WEIGHT WATCHERS DEDICATED


TRANSFORMING OUR RETAIL CENTERS


OUR CLINICAL HERITAGE


STRONG CLINICAL HERITAGE


n = completers of the study

*The trial was funded by Weight Watchers International but run as an investigator-led trial, with protocol development, all data collection and analysis undertaken by the research team with no input from Weight Watchers.

WEIGHT WATCHERS & PHYSICIANS: A POWERFUL COMBO

– ACCORDING TO A GLOBAL STUDY* RECENTLY PUBLISHED IN THE LANCET: – THOSE IN THE WW GROUP LOST TWICE AS MUCH WEIGHT AS THOSE JUST

COUNSELED BY THEIR PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS ALONE– STUDY SHOWED THAT WHEN REFERRED TO WEIGHT WATCHERS BY THEIR

PHYSICIAN, PATIENTS WERE MORE THAN 3 TIMES AS LIKELY TO LOSE 10% OF THEIR INITIAL WEIGHT


Oregon Educators Benefit Board...• Weight Watchers®-- All three OEBB medical carriers (regardless...

Documents

Transcript of Oregon Educators Benefit Board...• Weight Watchers®-- All three OEBB medical carriers (regardless...