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Consumers are spending $363 billion a year on ancillary healthcare, according to a new study by Deloitte. Ancillary care falls outside of conventionally counted healthcare costs such as doctor...
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Obama Administration agencies will propose raising the monetary wellness incentive threshold from 20 percent to 30 percent of coverage costs, according to guidance issued by the U.S. Department of L...
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Organizations’ commitment to improving employee health was up 600 percent from last year’s results, according to a new health and productivity survey released by Willis North America&rsq...
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Findings from a recent productivity impairment study demonstrated a meaningful relationship between employee health status and productivity impairment, according to HealthMedia. The data showed that...
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Patient activists are stepping up their role in healthcare by banding together over the Internet to share their experiences with everything from doctors to therapeutics. The emerging “particip...
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Office-based physicians contributed $1.4 trillion in economic activity and supported four million jobs nationwide, according to a state-by-state study from the American Medical Association. The find...
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"Dispense-as-written" prescriptions are exacerbating medication non adherence and costing the U.S. healthcare system billions of dollars, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard...
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It’s no surprise that unhealthy employees cost employers big bucks. But a new workforce wellness index shows that the unhealthy behaviors of the U.S. workforce cost employers an average of $67...
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