Guidelines for Health Risk Assessments (HRAs)
Saturday, February 28th, 2009Health Risk Assessments (HRAs) are tools that identify and quantify an individual’s risk of
morbidity or mortality using demographic, medical and lifestyle information. “Health Risk
Assessments (HRAs) and Medicare”, an evaluation report completed by RAND for CMS, reached the
following conclusions.
• Effective Health Risk Assessment (HRA) plan have demonstrated beneficial effects on behavior,
physiological variables and general health status
• Interventions that combine Health Risk Assessment (HRA) feedback with the provision of Health
Plans are most likely to show beneficial effects
• To be effective, Health Risk Assessment (HRA) questionnaires should be accompanied by follow-up
interventions (e.g., information, support and referrals)
High quality Health Risk Assessments (HRAs) offer, a computation for individual risk from the
following most common diseases and risk Read More