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More employers Link Health Risk Appraisals To Open Enrollment

Employers are redefining open enrollment by using the process to encourage workers to sign up for health risk appraisals and disease management programs.

They see the benefits enrollment period as the perfect time to educate workers on how healthier lifestyle decisions affect health care costs.

For instance, 53% of companies report they included or will include by 2009 an HRA in their benefit enrollment process, while 36% use open enrollment to encourage employees to sign up for disease management programs or will do so by 2009, reports Watson Wyatt.



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