The Correlation of a Corporate Culture of Health Assessment Score and Health Care Cost Trend

OBJECTIVE: Employers that strive to create a corporate environment that fosters a culture of health often face challenges when trying to determine the impact of improvements on health care cost trends. This study aims to test the stability of the correlation between health care cost trend and corporate health assessment scores (CHAS) using a culture of health measurement tool. METHODS: Correlation analysis of annual health care cost trend and CHAS on a small group of employers using a proprietary CHAS tool. RESULTS: Higher CHAS scores are generally correlated with lower health care cost trend. For employers with several years of CHAS measurements, this correlation remains, although imperfectly. CONCLUSION: As culture of health scores improve, health care costs trends moderate. These findings provide further evidence of the inverse relationship between organizational CHAS performance and health care cost trend.