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Wellness Doesn't Work: Part 3 of the Proof
Al Lewis and Vik Khanna Link to more items from this source
[Opinion]
Nov. 6, 2015

"If indeed workplace wellness prevented [a] huge increase [in wellness-sensitive medical admissions (WSMEs)] in the privately insured population, one would expect that these very same events would have risen by something similar to 60% in the non-privately insured population -- meaning the combined Medicare, Medicaid, and uninsured.... As wellness spending snowballed, the separation between those two populations' WSME trendlines should have increased significantly. Instead, we find these populations WSME-as-percent-of-total-admissions also flat-lined, just like the private-pay population."  MORE >>

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