Wellness

The National Association of Health Underwriters commends the June 30 decision of a National Association of Insurance Commissioners broker task force to endorse a bill in Congress that would provide state insurance regulators more freedom when it comes to the medical loss ratio implementation.

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One thing young employees can expect as they enter the workforce is that their employers almost certainly will place a greater employer focus on their health and well-being. This focus is not only for lowering claims costs, but aimed at improving absenteeism and quality of life.

Fifth in EBN's year-long BeneFIT Success series When the waistlines of both your employee population and your corporate medical costs are shrinking, people tend to take notice. And many eyes have been watching such a slimming down effect taking shape at the Principal Financial Group year after year.

In May, the Midwest Business Group on Health and health care consultancy The La Penna Group partnered to form the National Worksite Health Center Association.

By incorporating employee health clinics into the business structure of their clients, Matt McQuide and Rick Gantt are able to bring down health care costs while changing the way employers think about health care delivery. Not to mention keep themselves firmly entrenched as the BOR in the process.

Forgetting the golden rule and rewarding wrong people are among the top four reasons Sykes lists for why employee wellness incentives fail.

To significantly lower health care costs, we need to keep people out of the health care system in the first place. We need to keep them healthy. How do we accomplish that seemingly simple concept? In a word, prevention.

The authors of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act would be quick to point out that our plan is not required to cover dependent children — but we do have to cover the 26-year-olds if we want to cover the newborns and preschoolers. Some choice.

Will the new health plan law make health coverage more expensive for your firm or staff? The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a report this week saying that for companies with fewer than 50 workers, costs should drop.