Watson-Wyatt Survey

Page 10 of this report includes a couple of key statistics about people who self-report that they have a "primary care doctor."  Specifically, respondents who say they have a primary care doctor are nearly 2.5 times more likely to have had a preventive health care screening than those without a primary care doctor (76 percent vs. 31 percent). Also, workers with a primary care doctor are more likely to have taken a health risk assessment (27 percent vs. 21 percent), have had a biometric screening (20 percent vs. 8 percent) and to have used a weight management program (20 percent vs. 12 percent) than those without a primary care doctor. Those are compelling differences to employee benefit managers who are looking for as many ways as they can find to improve the use of preventive and primary care services.