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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Health plan costs - preventive care Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines Animated U.S. Map Showing Year-by-Year Increase in Obesity Among State Populations, 1985-2010 Three Ways to Make Corporate Wellness a Game for Employees America's Employers Controlling Health Care Costs and Improving Employee Lifestyles with Wellness Initiatives Workplace Wellness Programs: Trends, Changes in the Law Starting in 2014, and Issues to Watch Providing Incentives for Healthy Behaviors for Employee While Theading the HIPAA Privacy Needle Wellness Programs Credited with Keeping Eau Claire City Employee Insurance Costs Down The ABCs of Beating Obesity: Schools Called 'Focal Point' for Prevention by Advisory Body [Opinion] Fee-for-Service Model: Culprit Behind Exponential Health Care Cost Growth? Using an Incentive Strategy (Rewards or Penalties) to Drive Wellness Program Participation (PDF) California State Officials Launch 'Health Happens in the Workplace' Program Obesity Adds $190 Billion in Health Costs How Employers Can Address Challenges of Health Care Cost Containment Making Workers Healthier: Employers and Insurers Using Carrots, Sticks, and Online Games Wellness = Retirement Savings 8 Tips to Gain the CFO's Buy-In for Wellness Programs Obamacare Collapse Would Put Employers Back in Charge of Controlling Health Costs 'Choice Architecture' Can Improve Wellness Results More Employers Providing Incentives to Employees for Healthier Habits Illinois Organizations Team Up to Promote Employee Wellness Contest Employers Try Health Gaming and the Power of Social Responses Nine Tips for Creating a Culture of Health at the Workplace Health Care Remains a Key Concern for Americans; Wellness Near Top of List Chrysler Keeping Health Care Costs in Check by Emphasizing Preventive Care and Wellness Screenings and Early Intervention Reduce Medical Costs Focusing on Quality of Life Helps Medical Providers See Big Picture, Produces Healthier, Happier Patients Preventive Health Services under the Affordable Care Act: Role of Delivery System Reform Health Plans Invest in Trigger-Based Communications With Focus on Health and Wellness Worker Wellness Improve Employers' Bottom Line, Insurers Say Lung Cancer Screening Would Save Lives at Relatively Low Cost Many Patients Skip Recommended Colonoscopy: Study Do You Really Need That Medical Test? Costs of Many Preventive Medical Exams Vary As Much As 700% Employers See Wellness Programs as Key to Improving Employee Health and Containing Rising Health Care Costs Employers Tie Financial Rewards and Penalties to Health Tests and Lifestyle Choices Higher Insurance Costs Loom for Employees Who Fail to Meet Health Goals Lower Copays Help Ensure Medication Adherence Outcomes-Based Wellness Plans (PDF) Obesity: The Economic Case for Action U.S. Underestimates Long-Term Costs of Obesity, Experts Say 10,000 More Employees Join Chicago Mayor's Wellness Plan White House Suggestions on Funding Contraception Coverage 'Unworkable' [Guidance Overview] Contraceptive Coverage Proposals Would Expand Role of Insurers and TPAs The Affordable Care Act and Women States Target Chronic Disease to Trim Health Care Costs Differential Wellness Programs Can Nip Smoking in the Butt Healthy Employees Can Cut Costs for Employer, Experts Say Site-Specific Approaches Help Drive Wellness Improvement [Official Guidance] IRS, EBSA, CMS Proposed Rule on Certain Preventive Services under Affordable Care Act Minnesota Legislators Lose Interest for Statewide Wellness Campaign Integrating Workplace Safety with Wellness Programs Wellness Programs Expand to Embrace Well-Being Health Care Law's Preventive Care Rules Snare Insured Patients Employers Cannot Offer Inducements for Genetic Information Give Your Wellness Program a Legal Checkup Survey: Total Rewards and Employee Well-Being New Research Finds Chasm Between What Wellness Offerings an Organization Provides and What Workers Actually Want Employer Investments in Improving Employee Health (PDF) Companies Increase Wellness Incentive Dollars Small Companies Working to Make Health Coverage Pay Employers Boosting Values of Wellness Incentives: Survey Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. But BenefitsLink is not the author or publisher of those linked pages (except as expressly indicated). You should contact directly the author of any such linked pages for copyright or other information about their contents. Webmaster: Dave Baker (click)   ·   © 2012 BenefitsLink.com, Inc. (contact the webmaster for reprint permission)   ·   Linking: Feel free to link directly to this page, even without specifically crediting BenefitsLink ® as its source. Glad you're here!   ·   Privacy Policy