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A Healthy Bottom Line: Companies Push Wellness Programs

Desperate to find something -- anything -- to control rising health-care costs, companies in Pittsburgh and across the country are dusting off a tool that's been around for more than two decades but always raised some doubts: wellness programs.

Ranging from nutrition and smoking cessation classes to the distribution of pedometers so that employees can count their steps per day, the current wellness resurgence features an increase in the number of both wellness programs and firms offering financial incentives to encourage worker participation.

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posted by Mike @ 8:53 AM