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- Title
The Employer's Case for Health Management.
- Authors
Coulter, Christopher H.
- Abstract
Employers' past solutions to rising health benefit costs--adopting managed care strategies, cost shifting to employees and reducing benefits--are no longer effectively controlling costs and are depressing the value of health benefits for employee recruitment and retention. An alternative strategy is to implement health management approaches that improve the health status of employees. These programs reduce medical costs and have a documented positive impact on workers' compensation, disability costs, absenteeism and productivity. Further, this approach is complementary to health care consumerism as a strategy for health improvement and benefit cost reduction and results in improved employee health, outlook and satisfaction.
- Subjects
EMPLOYEE benefits; EMPLOYEE health promotion; MANAGED care programs; MEDICAL care costs; EMPLOYEE recruitment; EMPLOYEE retention
- Publication
Benefits Quarterly, 2006, Vol 22, Issue 1, p23
- ISSN
8756-1263
- Publication type
Article