Current Issue Artciles

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?

Pamela Hall: Best Practices: How Efficient Use of Health Incentive Dollars Increase ROI, Drive Wellness Program Engagement, and Encourage Long-Term Behavior Changes

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”

Feature

Why Long Term Care Insurance?

Jim Del Vecchio, JD President, Asset Protection Unit, Inc.

When we examine the voluntary benefits landscape, certain features rise to the obvious. For example, few voluntary participants doubt the desirability,

Cross-Border Healthcare: A Creative Option for Texas Self-Insured Employers

José Aroeste CFO of Healthcarebluebook.com and Jim Arriola CEO of Healthcarebluebook.com

One of the advantages of self-funding for employers in Texas is the ability to include cross-border healthcare.

The Implications of Acetaminophen Overdose for Injured Workers

Tron Emptage, RPh, MA, Chief Clinical Officer, Progressive Medical, Inc.

One of the most commonly used drugs to relieve pain and fever, acetaminophen is contained in a number of prescription medications and is a popular over-the-counter medication.

Will Employer Sponsored Insurance erode over time?

Rajeev Mudumba

Last week, I read a few articles that were lambasting last quarter’s McKinsey Health care research study.

Recruiting, Retaining & Rejuvenating Employees: Incentive Top Talent with Voluntary Benefits

Elizabeth Halkos, CMO, Purchasing Power

Faced with uncertainty about the potential effects healthcare reform will have on employee benefits,

The Challenge of Product Development for Voluntary Benefits

Roger Schultz

A speaker at a recent Voluntary Employee Benefits Board conference pleaded with attendees to take a fresh look at their product development processes and commit to significantly improve them.

Improve Your ROI With a Wellness Diagnostic

Fabien Loszach

The benefits of promoting healthy lifestyles in the workplace have been proven; good employee health boosts productivity,

Defeating Depression with Resilience

Gail Wagnild and Rose K. Gantner

A good way to reduce health care costs and increase vitality and productivity in your organization is to increase resilience to prevent or eliminate depression.

Beware of Your Chair

K.Kennedy

If you are one of the millions of American workers who rush to work every morning just to sit down for 8 to 10 hours you might not want to “sit this one out.”

Health Culture at Work Promotes Loyalty and Drives Savings

Laura Karkula & Beena Thomas

An increasing number of companies are implementing wellness programs in an effort to help employees adopt healthy behaviors,

Cake or Carrots? Using Incentives to Motivate Healthy Choices

Ryan Beckland & Drew Schiller, Co-founders of Scale Down Challenge

Incentives motivate behavior change, yet there is a widening gap between those of us who use incentives to encourage healthy

Developing Leadership in Medicine: The Importance of “Institutional Awareness” in Managing Change and Transforming Healthcare

Dr. Salinder Supri and Prof. Karen Malone

Leaders grapple with constant change. Evolving societal needs, tastes and expectations, developments in science and technology, new and revised legislation,