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Inc. April 2006 Dee Gill	Get Healthy...Or Else Employers are getting a lot more serious about their wellness programs. But can you tell employees they're not allowed to smoke -- even at home?
Managed Care February 2008 Lola Butcher	Wellness Programs: No Longer Just an Add-On In the face of stiff competition from a growing category of dedicated wellness companies, major health plans are launching sophisticated, ambitious programs to slake employers' thirst for these products
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
BusinessWeek November 5, 2007 Jena McGregor	Sweat More, Pay Less Principal Financial Group launched a health-care insurance product that asks participants with health risks to try to shape up or pay more.
Managed Care October 2004 MargaretAnn Cross	More Plans Discover Value of Health Risk Assessments The Health Risk Assessment is not a new tool, but it is getting new respect. Often prodded by employers, health plans are increasingly identifying at-risk populations.
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.
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BusinessWeek November 12, 2009 Catherine Arnst	10 Ways to Cut Health-Care Costs Right Now Employers and hospitals don't have to wait for Congress to address inefficiencies and waste.
BusinessWeek October 24, 2005 Lauren Young	A Bad Case Of Sticker Shock Next year's health benefits will cause you to say "Ouch!" Here's what the most important changes will look like - and how painful they'll be.
Managed Care August 2007 Frank Diamond	Employers Roll Up Their Sleeves No longer passive, companies are working in a variety of ways to improve employees' care. Preventive programs cost money up front, but can cut overall treatment costs to insurers by 30 percent or more, yet few insurers pay for preventive care.
CFO February 1, 2009 Josh Hyatt	Prognosis: Negative Rising health-care premiums have companies shifting costs, pushing "wellness," and punishing unhealthy behavior.
IndustryWeek January 1, 2008	The Win-Win of Wellness in the Workplace Even the simplest of programs offer clear benefits for companies and their employees.
Managed Care February 2008 John Carroll	What's the ROI on Wellness? A few major corporations, sometimes with the assistance of a traditional health plan, have made significant efforts to improve employee lifestyles.
Managed Care March 2007 Lola Butcher	Care Management Data Hard to Come By Employee health management programs are well received, for the most part, even though it is still hard to measure their value.
IndustryWeek May 1, 2002 Traci Purdum	Healthy, Wealthy, Wise and Web Based Online wellness programs can keep employees healthy while lowering health-care costs...
HRO Today September 2008 Jay Whitehead	HRO's Performance Enhancer Faced with lagging adoption rates for money-saving employee-participation programs such as wellness solutions, smart HR leaders are using a performance-enhancer of their own.
Managed Care December 2003 MargaretAnn Cross	'What Can You Do To Help Control Costs?' Employers are beginning to tap into the groundswell of employee interest in reducing premiums.
Entrepreneur November 2006 Chris Penttila	Paying the Price The rising cost of health care could lead to surcharges.
IndustryWeek January 1, 2008 Adrienne Selko	Prescription for Survival: How to Control Healthcare Costs Are healthcare costs making you sick? Manufacturers are discovering that a healthy workforce is a cost-effective workforce.
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.
IndustryWeek January 1, 2008 Adrienne Selko	Employers Offering Financial Rewards for Healthy Behavior Almost half of companies interviewed offer financial incentives to help workers improve health.
BusinessWeek March 19, 2007	Wellness--Or Orwellness? A story about Scotts' controversial health-care plan provoked strong reactions.
Managed Care February 2008 Frank Diamond	You Will Live Healthily! Employers want to do everything within the law to make workers change their lifestyles, and they expect health plans to help
Managed Care June 2007 Lola Butcher	Big Companies Holding Fast To Employer-Sponsored System In board rooms across the country, decisions are being made to battle, rather than run from, rising costs of health care.
CFO October 1, 2010 Alix Stuart	Have Illness, Will Travel? What with health-care costs climbing an estimated 10% on average this year, and health-care reform showing no signs yet of stopping that trend, companies -- particularly those that self-insure -- are becoming more willing to consider medical tourism.
BusinessWeek November 8, 2004 Gleckman & Woellert	Your New Health Plan Health savings accounts, like 401(k)s, will give employees more choices -- but also a greater share of the costs
Managed Care June 2004 MargaretAnn Cross	CDC Begins To Provide Resources for Workplace Wellness Programs As employers become more comfortable with the idea that prevention pays, health plans may find their scope of services widening.
Entrepreneur September 2002 Joshua Kurlantzick	Through the Roof Nationwide, small businesses are about to be swamped by a perfect storm of changes that should prompt drastically higher health-care costs for 2002, 2003 and beyond. How to find a way around skyrocketing health-care costs?
Managed Care February 2007 Lola Butcher	Biggest Health Care Purchasers Bullish on Care Management Businesses see care management, not cost shifting, as the most important trend in health coverage.
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Inc. August 1, 2002 Christopher Caggiano	Benefits: Taming the Health-Care Monster A new kind of insurance plan puts employees in the driver's seat. And the potential savings for company owners look awfully good as well. Could this be the answer to double-digit premium hikes?
CFO August 1, 2003 Joseph McCafferty	Heal Thyself Consumer-directed health care is hot. But is it a danger to the medical-insurance system?
Managed Care April 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Don't Forget Productivity Gains When Rating Health Programs Disease management conference focuses on outcome measures that address issues such as presenteeism that concern most health care purchasers.
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Outside November 2009 Nick Heil	Cash for Chunkers Enough about the public option. We should pay people to stay fit.
CFO February 1, 2007 Karen M. Kroll	Pin the Tail on the Doctor A dearth of information leaves health-care consumers in the dark. As health-care information becomes more accessible, will employees use it to purchase health-care services more intelligently?
CFO July 15, 2008 Lori Calabro	Aetna's Joseph Zubretsky Heavy investment in technology goes straight to the company's bottom line, the CFO says. Plus: a pitch for national health insurance.
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Managed Care November 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Health Plans by Design, Not by Default Fortune 500 employers are ready to shed old benefit models for "managed consumerism".
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