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Health Plans and Specialty Vendors Ramping up to Address Growing Employer Interest in Worksite Wellness
A recent survey of large employers showed that over 8 in 10 either presently offer or will soon offer a broad range of worksite wellness programs that include health risk appraisals, biometric health screenings, and a range of health education resources. Health plans and third party specialty providers are responding to this growing demand with a wide range of services designed to help employers achieve their primary objectives of long term healthcare cost control, increased employee productivity and reductions in absenteeism. The same programs that are gaining traction with large employers are also being deployed at mid sized and even small employers who face the same cost and productivity concerns as their larger peers. For more information and statistics on wellness program adoption rates, click here.
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Worksite
Wellness Seminar - April 17, 2008
ArlenGroup
is hosting a seminar where you can learn how to
launch a worksite wellness program and learn how to keep the excitement and momentum going around your program.
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DOL Issues a Checklist to Ensure
HIPAA Compliance for Wellness Programs
If you are a plan sponsor implementing or considering a wellness
program, the Department of Labor's Field Assistance Bulletin 2008-02 (FAB
2008-02) includes helpful guidance and a wellness program
compliance checklist. Once the wellness program is found to be part of a group health plan and a program that discriminates based on a health-related standard, the plan sponsor must make sure that the program operates in compliance with the HIPAA wellness rules. To sum up the rules, if a wellness program varies benefits (including cost-sharing, deductibles, copayments, coinsurance or premiums) based on whether an individual meets a health-related measurement, it must satisfy five factors, or it will be in violation of
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Individual Medical Review Services Gaining Traction with employers
Employers looking to provide employees with additional medical care support resources are beginning to turn to specialty third party vendors that review a patient’s medical records and provide counsel as to the appropriateness of the medical treatments received. Early data indicates a surprisingly high percentage of patients decide to change their treatment plan or even their providers after gaining third party review of their cases. The services are of the greatest value to employees suffering from chronic conditions and there is data suggesting that plan sponsors are benefiting from a reduction in the delivery of inappropriate care.
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