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Employers' Stock in Wellness Rises With No End in Sight Formerly, insurers used to devise new products and processes to attract purchasers. Now more and more employers are going to the plans and insisting on preventive care.   |
Managed Care
April 2006
Lola Butcher |
Financial Incentives Increasingly Promote Healthy Lifestyles Fifty bucks to fill out a questionnaire, a discount on a membership at the gym -- these are some ways to get health plans are getting members to make a commitment to a healthy lifestyle. |
BusinessWeek
February 4, 2010 |
How Disease Management Works Providers have convinced many big employers that their services save money and improve employee health. |
Managed Care
February 2008
Michael Levin-Epstein |
Federal and State Governments Pressed to Give Tax Breaks For Wellness Initiatives Legislators are being urged to reward companies that provide programs for their workers, but success has been mixed |
Managed Care
November 2000 |
Headlines On Deadline Researchers studying 46,000 employees in six large companies found that 25 percent of medical claims could be linked to lifestyle choices, such as diet, exercise, and smoking... Health plans' HEDIS performance is influenced by socioeconomic factors... etc. |
CFO
February 15, 2006
Melissa Hennessy |
Putting a Premium on Health Employers are giving workers a new reason to get in shape: cash. Does this trend create a legal slippery slope of employers targeting anyone who might develop health problems? |
BusinessWeek
February 4, 2010
Terhune & Weintraub |
Take Your Meds, Exercise -- and Spend Billions Washington wants to pump big money into so-called disease management, though there's scant evidence that it works. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2007
Mary Dalrymple |
Work on Your Waist Without Waste Make sure you get your money's worth from a gym membership. |
Managed Care
April 2004
MargaretAnn Cross |
Medical Directors Find Themselves Working More Closely With Payers As large companies become more demanding of health plans, clinical executives are increasingly being relied on to provide advice and expertise. |
American Family Physician
March 15, 2003 |
Physical Activity for Healthy Weight How are physical activity, weight, and health related?... How will physical activity help me?... I have a busy life -- how can I find time to exercise?... How do I get started?... What's next? What kind of exercise program should I follow?... etc. |
Insurance & Technology
March 16, 2004
Julie Gallagher |
Cyber News New programs and offerings from health insurance groups: Principal Financial Group rolled out several Web-based tools to help consumers... Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield is now offering all of its members free online lifestyle improvement programs... etc. |
AskMen.com
March 9, 2013
James Fell |
Change Your Life It is an adage of time-management that if everything is a priority, nothing is. If you're not finding time to exercise and focus on healthy eating, then it is not a high enough priority for you. |
Managed Care
March 2000
Michael D. Dalzell |
Where Society Failed, Can Health Plans Succeed? What can be done about obesity? By engaging patients and forming strategic alliances, plans can gain immediate cost and clinical benefits -- despite conventional wisdom to the contrary. |
CIO
January 1, 2007
Allan Holmes |
For Better Collaboration, Try Fantasy Want to learn the latest management theory on collaboration? Then log on to an Internet fantasy role-playing game and create your own 3-D avatar. |
AskMen.com
January 20, 2014
James Fell |
Plan Ahead To Meet Your Fitness Goals How did you screw up your plan? You didn't have one. You jumped into fitness like an apocalyptic lemming, pursuing white-knuckle weight loss with a vague idea of "exercise and eat right." |
Managed Care
November 2007
MargaretAnn Cross |
The Evolving Health Plan The consumer-directed health care model isn't taking the country by storm, but its innovations are influencing other coverage designs. |
Job Journal
April 2, 2006
Rich Heintz |
Fitness Fields Judging by the continuing growth of exercise classes and health clubs, the business of fitness is booming. That means jobs at fitness centers are growing at a healthy clip as well. |
BusinessWeek
June 3, 2010
Frederik Balfour |
Why China's Weight-Loss Industry Is Gaining Affluence, more sedentary lives, and an increase in processed foods are driving sales of health foods and gym equipment in China. Bariatric surgery is up too. |
Managed Care
May 2003
MargaretAnn Cross |
Rising Costs Strike Unions As Being Cause for Unrest Many labor organizations have been isolated from inflationary realities. Can health plans and employers make them see the light? |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Medicare Drug Benefit 101 If financial advisers can understand the basics of the new Medicare drug benefit plan, they can provide a great service to their clients -- perhaps even save them money in premiums. Here's where to start. |
Managed Care
September 2003
MargaretAnn Cross |
Consumer-Directed Health Care: Too Good To Be True? People talk about it as the sure way to control costs and give consumers the choice they seem to want. Are we being realistic? |
Food Processing
February 2007
Diane Toops |
Healthy Eating Gains, Exercise Loses Cooking Light survey finds Americans more knowledgeable about nutrition and health but less inclined to exercise. |
IndustryWeek
January 1, 2008
Adrienne Selko |
National Business Group on Honors Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles The National Business Group on Health, a national non-profit organization recognized on May 9 more than three dozen U.S. employers for their continuing efforts to promote healthy work environments and encourage workers to live healthier lifestyles. |
Entrepreneur
March 2008
Mark Henricks |
An Apple a Day . . . When Jason Crawforth started Treetop Tech Inc. in 1997, he didn't offer employees company-sponsored health coverage. Today, he is finding there are more avenues to get health insurance. |
Managed Care
May 2003 |
Premiums up, benefits down for M+C Premiums continue to rise for Medicare+Choice beneficiaries while the benefit selection gets somewhat narrower, a study funded by the Commonwealth Fund and conducted by Mathematica Policy Research finds. Monthly premiums rose from about $23 in 2001 to about $37 in 2003. |
Entrepreneur
June 2006
Mark Henricks |
What's Up, Doc? Inflated health insurance prices are putting the squeeze on your budget, but are consumer-directed plans the way to go? |
Managed Care
December 2003
Martin Sipkoff |
Health Plans Begin To Address Chronic Care Management As with so much else in health care, observing protocols, analyzing data, and rethinking benefit designs are important. |
BusinessWeek
October 13, 2003
Kimberly Weisul |
Throwing a Line to Uninsured Workers Across the country, heads of small businesses rank the cost and availability of health insurance as the biggest problem facing their businesses. Dozens of state and local governments are trying to help. |
AskMen.com
November 21, 2013
James Fell |
Could Getting Healthy Help Rob Ford? I am a proud Canadian and you're making our country look bad by staying in office as the mayor of Toronto. If you step down as mayor, immediately, I will become your fitness consultant, free of charge. |
Managed Care
November 1999
Uwe Reinhardt, Ph.D. |
Defined Contributions Will Point Employees Toward 'Health Marts' Companies will want to distance themselves from insurance entanglements, giving employees little option but to become more involved.... |
