Company Health Plans Raising Costs for Smokers, Obese
Like a lot of companies, Veridian Credit Union wants its employees to be healthier. In January, the Waterloo, Iowa-company rolled out a wellness program and voluntary screenings. It also gave workers a...
View ArticleAtlas General Insurance Services Named 3rd Healthiest Company in San Diego in...
San Diego, CA, 5/30/12 – The San Diego Business Journal announced the finalists this week for the San Diego Business Journal’s 3rd Annual Healthiest Companies Awards. Atlas General Insurance Services...
View ArticleNo Quick Savings from Workplace Wellness for Employers: Study
Your bosses want you to eat your broccoli, hit the treadmill and pledge you’ll never puff on a cigarette. But a new study raises doubts that workplace wellness programs save the company money. In...
View ArticleWorkplace Wellness Has Only Modest Effect on Bottom Lines, Waistlines: RAND
A long-awaited report on workplace wellness programs, which has still not been publicly released, delivers a blow to the increasingly popular efforts, Reuters has learned, casting doubt on a pillar of...
View ArticleLarge Firms Add Financial Muscle to Wellness Programs
U.S. companies are increasingly penalizing workers who decline to join “wellness” programs, embracing an element of President Barack Obama’s healthcare law that has raised questions about fairness in...
View ArticleEEOC Issues Rules for Employee Wellness Program Incentives
U.S. employers can reward workers with as much 30 percent of the cost of their health insurance benefits in return for participation in programs to monitor weight, cholesterol and other “wellness”...
View ArticleArkansas’ Health Plan Should Move People Upward, Consultants Say
Consultants hired by Arkansas legislators to review the state’s “private option” Medicaid plan have recommended that the program continue but suggested changes that would move participants into jobs...
View ArticleWhen Are Employee Wellness Programs No Longer Voluntary?
Dale Arnold, who worked for Wisconsin plastics maker Flambeau, chose not to take his work-sponsored health assessment and biometric screening. The company responded by pulling his insurance coverage....
View ArticleAARP Suit Says Workplace Wellness Programs Raise Medical Privacy Concerns
A lobbying group representing older Americans sued the Obama administration on Monday claiming regulations for programs designed to rein in employee health care costs will subject workers to invasions...
View ArticleHow Big Data Threatens Health Insurance: Viewpoint
For all its absurdity, the debate over Obamacare has accomplished something positive: It has educated people that insurance is really about risk pooling — as in you need both healthy and sick people to...
View ArticleHealthier Workplaces Help to Reduce Group Insurance Costs: Canada’s Manulife
When Canadians hit the gym, they’re not the only ones who benefit. Their insurers stand to gain as well. “If we can have a healthier workplace it is going to decrease disability costs, it’s going to...
View ArticleAXA XL Partners with IPRS Health to Offer Employer’s Liability Insurance...
AXA XL Insurance has partnered with IPRS Health to launch an employer’s liability insurance solution, AXA XL HealthAssist, for UK organizations. With workplace injury and new cases of work-related...
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