As organizations today continue to compete in the global economy, cost containment strategies will be increasingly important. Controlling the rising cost of employee ill health is becoming a priority for corporate leaders.
The emerging corporate culture in the United States is one which has an employee population centered in health, safety and wellness.
Developing a corporate [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Evidence-based medicine has become a large buzzword in health care over the last few years. But certain non-traditional treatments, like chiropractic care, may also prove effective in certain cases.
The key – Using these treatments further to – not in lieu of – conventional medicine may prove more cost-efficient in the long term.
What the latest research [...]
Want some wellness program ideas and wellness policy ideas to get you started? Or maybe you want to jump begin or improve upon your current wellness program?
The list below provides “best practices’ that can help meet any wellness program budget! the Wellness Program ideas are divided into topic areas.
General Wellness Progam Ideas
• Policy – [...]
When an worker ignores directions from a doctor, who’s responsible when the worker causes a serious accident on the job?
In some cases, it’s your firm that ends up on the hook – both for workers’ comp and for other people ’s injuries caused by misuse of a prescription drug.
Situations like these raise three questions that [...]
Health screenings are important programs to identify chronic disease in their early stages. Once identified, wellness intervention programs can help prevent a illness from progressing.
Working with local hospitals and other organizations, you can obtain information on providing screening and intervention programs that could improve your employees’ health and save your company money in absenteeism, [...]
Having even one problem drinker on your medical plan – including a covered family member with abuse issues – can cost your company big.
Some estimates place the potential cost as high as $35,000 a year per case. What’ your company’s risk?
A lot of health promotion programs are geared toward managing employees’ health risks associated with [...]
Health Risk (Assessment|Appraisal}s, are an assessment tool or questionnaire scientifically designed to identify health risks and outline information to assist person in making healthful changes that impact their health and prevent chronic disease.
Health Risk (Assessment|Appraisal}s have four standard elements in worksite establishings –
• A Questionnaire
• A Computerized Program to Evaluate Health Risk
• Confidential Individual [...]
It’s easy to feel like your PBM holds all the power over you. In most cases, it does.
A landmark 2004 study compared what pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) charge companys’ plans to what they actually pay pharmacies.
Scientists found staggering overcharges – in particular for generic drugs. Regrettably, four years later, the situation has scarcely changed. [...]
There are many benefits to considering a part-time or full-time occupational and environmental health nurse (OHN). Occupational health nursing is the specialty practice that provides for and delivers health and safety programs and services to employees, and worker populations.
The practice focuses on promotion and restoration of health, avoidance of illness and injury, treatment of [...]
The best employee recognition practices are often the simplest.
Here is one that’s recently been adopted at the publishing company where I work – a progam called “See something good, say something good.” It’s a way for staff members to bring positive attention to things that their coworkers, managers and the company’s different departments do [...]
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