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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.
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 2004	New Twist on an Old Effort: Paying People To Live Right Health care providers are trying to monitor and reward people for living healthy lifestyles.
HRO Today September 2008 Korn & Van Noy	Encouraging Healthy Living By adding an incentive element to their wellness programs, employers raise participation among workers.
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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?
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 2006 Lola Butcher	Manipulating Deductibles To Foster Healthful Behavior Increasing employee deductible levels to encourage workers to be better health care consumers has become old hat. But how about this: tying an employee's deductible level to health status?
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.
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.
IndustryWeek January 1, 2008	The Secrets to Success in Wellness Programs: Leadership, Incentives, Healthy Workplace Wise executives recognize that while employees are most definitely human beings, they also are machines of production that require maintenance.
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.
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 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.
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.
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Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2005 Jennifer Juergens	Recognize Reward Retain: The Three Rs of Performance Management A recent study affirms that incentive programs can boost performance up to 44% if conducted in ways that address all issues related to performance and human motivation.
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Managed Care February 2007 John Carroll	Punishing Bad Behavior Sticks, as well as carrots, are used in some commercial and government programs to encourage beneficiaries not to undermine their health.
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.
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 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.
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.
Entrepreneur November 2008 Karen E. Spaeder	All Well and Good A healthy workplace means keeping your employees' minds and bodies happy.
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Managed Care August 2006	Put Away That Carrot and Stick Researchers interviewed practice managers about how financial incentives are implemented in physician practices and the attitudes and perceptions they had toward P4P programs.
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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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Managed Care August 2004 MargaretAnn Cross	Spend Money on Healthy People! The accepted insurance model is to provide care intended to make sick people well. There are new arguments that small investments in persuading people to live healthier lifestyles will result in large reductions in cost in later years.
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Managed Care May 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Are Consumers Really Directing Their Own Care? In theory, consumer-directed health plans put the reins of decision making into the hands of their members. But medical management departments are alive and well inside CDHPs -- and may even expand under these plan designs.
Investment Advisor June 2010 Inveen & DePardo	Paying to Fail The third of our quarterly features drawing on the 2009 FA Insight Study of Advisory Firms: People and Pay.
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Inc. June 2008	Online Nuggets: When Bonuses Backfire As Marc Andreessen notes on blog.pmarca.com, creating a good incentive program is easier said than done.
HBS Working Knowledge July 16, 2008 Porter et al.	What Should Employers do About Health Care? Companies that cut health care costs without improving the overall value of care eventually pay a price in terms of employee absenteeism and chronic ailments.
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