What is Prescription for Wellness?
Prescription for Wellness is a nationally recognized, Six Sigma-developed best practice system that provides a convenient and effective way for providers to prescribe resources and support offered by UPMC Health Plan to their patients who are UPMC Health Plan members.
Providers can write a Prescription for Wellness through EpicCare, CHP Cerner, or the Health Plan’s secure provider website, Provider OnLine (for practices with an alternative EMR). Providers select from a robust order set that includes services to support chronic condition management, lifestyle improvement, behavioral health support, pharmacy intervention, social service intervention, and more.
Why choose Prescription for Wellness?
Prescription for Wellness leverages integrative and lifestyle medicine as a primary part of treatment. This whole-person care approach is positioned to address patient risk behaviors while meeting the Quintuple Aim: enhancing the patient experience, improving population health outcomes, reducing costs of care, improving the health care provider experience, and improving health equity.
By “prescribing” healthy behaviors and care engagement support during regular patient visits, providers can best improve the health of their patients and extend their influence and support to continue in between office visits.
Benefits of this effective patient-engagement platform include:
- No cost to the patient.
- Health Plan services serve as an extension of care and reinforce the provider’s care plan.
- Prescribing providers receive feedback regarding patient engagement in Health Plan resources.
- Providers have access to reporting summarizing patient reach and engagement rates.
View additional details regarding the Prescription for Wellness workflow in this downloadable flier.
Provider impact on patient engagement
- The physician/patient conversation is the preface to promoting positive behavior change.
- Patients are up to 10 times more likely to use health coaching when you prescribe it!
Read the award-winning outcomes study.
Provider resources
For more information about Prescription for Wellness, contact your physician account executive or email the Prescription for Wellness team at RxforWellness@upmc.edu.
*Prescription for Wellness is not available to dental groups.