“Raising the Bar”
When I was actively involved in the insurance industry working with employers,...
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Corporate Wellness
Marcia Reid: Bullying: What are the Myths Surrounding Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace?
Rose Gantner Ed.D.: Running a Wellness and Health Management Program? Where’s Your Certification?
Ria Duykers: Corporate Wellness & Executive Health Programs: What are the Benefits of Providing These Services?
Kathleen M. Gorman, MPH and Ross M. Miller, MD, MPH: Relative Influence of Modifiable Health Risks on Employer-Related Outcomes
Corporate Wellness Magazin: In this issue, we wanted to highlight one of our 2011 Corporate Wellness Leadership awardees for their innovative wellness initiatives.
Jennifer Turgiss : Healthy Workplaces: Leading Organizations Get Ready for June’s National Employee Wellness Month
Column
Kevin L. Shrake, FACHE: Healthcare Reform: Using Rebates to Turn Bills into Cash
Manish Nachnani: Social Media Health Revolution
Michael A. Schroeder: Group Captives: An Appealing Alternative
Sibyl C. Bogardus, JD: Bronze to Platinum Health Plans: What Will It Mean?
Dr. Gene Lindsey: ACOs: Healthcare’s Best Hope
Self Funding
Brian Black: Health and Wellness: Five Apps That Will Help You Lose Weight
Dennis Toohey: Controlling Benefit Cost and Spending By Creating Your Own Marketplace
Thomas E. Dreisinger, PhD, FACSM: Chronic Low Back and Neck Pain: An Epidemic Out of Control
Ronald J. Ozminkowski, Ph.D., and Seth Serxner, Ph.D./MPH: Program Reporting: Using the Right Process to Tell the Story
Voluntary Benefits
CJ Scarlet and Shirlita McFarland: Situational Coaching Offers Lasting Impact
Doug Ross: Long-Term Care Insurance: Helping Others by Helping Yourself
Dr. David Stoneback : Voluntary Benefits as an Employee Protection Strategy
By: Jonathan Spero, M.D.: Transforming a Traditional Occupational Health Center into a Total Employee Health Cost Containment Center
Editorial
Jonathan Edelheit, Editor in Chief: “Raising the Bar”
Editorial
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ACOs: Healthcare’s Best Hope
The future of healthcare in America may be wrapped up in these three letters: ...
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Healthcare Reform: Using Rebates to Turn Bills into Cash
How long have we had ATM cards in our pockets to conduct banking transactions all...
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Social Media Health Revolution
Social media is not a fad; it’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate...
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Group Captives: An Appealing Alternative
Recent news highlighting court decisions, legislative action, and market dynamics...
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Bronze to Platinum Health Plans: What Will It Mean?
New agency guidance provides insight on how employers and insurance carriers...
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Healthy Workplaces: Leading Organizations Get Ready for June’s National Employee Wellness Month
Out-of-control healthcare costs are a board-level issue for virtually every U.S. organization....
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In this issue, we wanted to highlight one of our 2011 Corporate Wellness Leadership awardees for their innovative wellness initiatives.
We recently caught up with Deborah Deters, Senior Vice President of Human Resources ...
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Relative Influence of Modifiable Health Risks on Employer-Related Outcomes
A substantial proportion of healthcare expenditures are due to chronic...
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Bullying: What are the Myths Surrounding Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace?
Bullying and harassment in the workplace can have a significant negative impact on employee...
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Best Practices: How Efficient Use of Health Incentive Dollars Increase ROI, Drive Wellness Program Engagement, and Encourage Long-Term Behavior Changes
According to Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the United States (US),...
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Corporate Wellness & Executive Health Programs: What are the Benefits of Providing These Services?
In today's extremely busy and high performance work environment, employees expect employers...
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Running a Wellness and Health Management Program? Where’s Your Certification?
Wellness programs are growing in acceptance - and importance - in the workplace...
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Program Reporting: Using the Right Process to Tell the Story
The secret to success in reporting is to tell a credible story about the value of health promotion...
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Chronic Low Back and Neck Pain: An Epidemic Out of Control
You would be hard-pressed to find an insurer in the United States today who isn’t looking...
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Controlling Benefit Cost and Spending By Creating Your Own Marketplace
According to a recent survey of 1,400 CFOs across companies of all sizes, there are/were...
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Health and Wellness: Five Apps That Will Help You Lose Weight
While the app market seems to be dominated by the gaming industry, tablet and smart phone...
Read moreVoluntary Benefits
Transforming a Traditional Occupational Health Center into a Total Employee Health Cost Containment Center
So let’s say you are the CFO for a manufacturing company and have had an on...
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Voluntary Benefits as an Employee Protection Strategy
Employers are asking themselves how they can provide a meaningful benefits package...
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Long-Term Care Insurance: Helping Others by Helping Yourself
Long-term care is one of the greatest planning challenges facing working Americans....
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Situational Coaching Offers Lasting Impact
Every year, your team struggles to find innovative and exciting ways to make your special...
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Michelle Hicks is a Director in the Communication Practice of Buck Consultants, a Xerox company. Michelle has nearly 15 years of strategic business communication experience. She specializes in designing and implementing strategies to help organizations manage and communicate changes in their culture, benefit and compensation programs, and organization structures.
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