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Growing number of employers offer incentives for healthy behavior.

Publication: Managed Care Outlook
Publication Date: 15-DEC-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
As the need to control health care costs continues to rise, so does the number of companies that plan to offer financial incentives to reward workers who adopt healthy lifestyles, according to a new survey by Watson Wyatt and the National Business Group on Health. In short, the survey finds that employers who do the best job of controlling costs and increasing productivity are integrating a broad array of health management programs into their organizations.

Forty-six percent of employers surveyed in the 2007/2008 Staying@Work survey currently offer financial incentives to encourage workers to monitor and improve their health or plan to offer...

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