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Some Employers Linking Employee Premiums To Health Screening Programs

As more employers require employees to take greater financial responsibility for their own health care as part of the consumerism movement, some employers are going even further, tying employees’ premium contributions to their participation in health risk appraisals and, in some cases, to improvements in health status.

"We baseline people, we give them education tools, help counsel them to improve their health, we establish accountability and the expectation is that their health score improved the next year. And their score is solely based on medically derived biomakers or metrics. It’s all in the blood," Hodgdon says.

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posted by Mike @ 8:20 AM