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May 2011 Issue

Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Costs Total $363 Billion, Study Reports

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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DOL: Agencies to Raise Wellness Monetary Incentive Threshold

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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Survey: Increase of Workplace Wellness as Health Benefit

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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Study: Employee Health Status Significantly Affects Productivity

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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Trend: Participatory Medicine Showing Good Early Results

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 Support 4 Million Jobs, Says AMA

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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DAW Rxs Drive Up Healthcare Costs, Study Finds

"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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Health Index: Health of U.S. Workforce Declining

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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