Program incentivizes healthy shopping, eating by employees
Gerard Bridi, CEO of NutriSavings, details how the wellness initiative can help both employers and their workers.
Outcomes-based wellness incentives
Benefits Think How to broaden the scope of employee wellness
While the programs are popular, they’re all too often reactionary and don’t take enough of a holistic approach to worker well-being, according to Corporate Synergies’ Robert Stumper.
Robert Stumper
Corporate Synergies
Aon looks to gain strength in voluntary
The company acquires enrollment and communications firm Univers in a bid to increase its presence in the ancillary benefits market.
Benefits Think 6 ideas for broadening the scope of employee wellness
While the programs are popular, they’re all too often reactionary and don’t take enough of a holistic approach to worker well-being, according to Corporate Synergies’ Robert Stumper.
Robert Stumper
Corporate Synergies
Aon looks to strengthen enrollment, voluntary capabilities with Univers acquisition
The brokerage and benefits company is looking to create of an ‘end-to-end’ solution for clients with the move.
Clients advised to revisit wellness programs
Plan sponsors have until Jan. 1, 2017 to comply with the final EEOC rules, which ban plan designs in which more generous insurance options are only available to employees who complete a health risk assessment or biometric screening.
Consumers ready to give insurers biometric data, for a price
Almost half of U.S. consumers are prepared to share biometric data with health insurers to receive discounts on premiums, according to a new wearables survey by Troubadour Research & Consulting.
Employers advised to revisit wellness programs
Plan sponsors have until Jan. 1, 2017 to comply with the final EEOC rules, which ban plan designs in which more generous insurance options are only available to employees who complete a health risk assessment or biometric screening.
How to bridge the wellness disconnect
Business leaders and benefits executives aren’t always aligned when it comes to employee well-being, finds new research.
Benefits Think 6 tips for moving wellness beyond biometrics
In the drive to promote employee engagement, organizations are likely missing the mark if they don’t realize that many employees have more urgent needs, such as lack of sleep or financial stress, that divert their attention from focusing on physical health.
Suzannah Gill
EPIC
Helping employers overcome wellness program disconnect
HR executives and business leaders are not aligned about employee well-being, new research shows. How advisers can help.
Benefits Think What employers need to know about benefits and gamification
It’s important to realize that technology is only a piece of this employee engagement method.
Andrea Davis
Employee Benefit News
Hearing and vision being tied into wellness programs
Employers are incorporating managing healthy senses with well-being benefits for a more holistic approach.
The benefits of using a wellness-focused broker
Cornerstone Insurance Group beefs up its offerings – and even hires a staff wellness director – to win over plan sponsors.
Why hearing and vision are being tied into wellness programming
Advisers and employers are incorporating managing healthy senses with well-being benefits for a more holistic approach.
Benefits Think Technology only a small part of gamification
When it comes to well-being programs, game mechanics are about understanding why, rather than now, employees make the choices they do.
Andrea Davis
Employee Benefit News
How one benefit broker is capitalizing on wellness
The Cornerstone Insurance Group beefs up its offerings — and even hires a staff wellness director — to win over clients.
Benefits Think New approach to wellness programs delivers immediate ROI
Moving beyond biggest loser-type competions and step challenges, employer-based programs are entering a new phase that make use of targeted incentives to create specific outcomes.
Eric Helman
Hodges-Mace
Benefits Think New approach to employer wellness programs delivers immediate ROI
Targeted incentives and automated employee follow-up can improve outcomes.
Eric Helman
Hodges-Mace
Are incentives the key to reducing healthcare costs?
How the concept of paying employees to encourage certain behaviors is making its way into other areas of benefits that advisers need to know about.
