As more workers battle diabetes, cancer, heart disease, mentalillness and other health conditions, employers are finding ways tohelp them reduce health care costs and focus on overall workerhealth and well-being, according to a new report.
The International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans' Workplace Wellness 2017 Survey Report surveyed 530 U.S. andCanadian organizations, and found that diabetes is the number onecondition impacting benefit plan health costs for 41 percent of therespondents.
The other top conditions impacting costs are cancer (33percent); arthritis/back/musculoskeletal (32 percent); obesity (29percent); heart disease (27 percent); hypertension/high bloodpressure (26 percent); depression/mental illness (20 percent); highcholesterol (11 percent); smoking (9 percent); and high-riskpregnancy (4 percent).
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Katie Kuehner-Hebert
Katie Kuehner-Hebert is a freelance writer based in Running Springs, Calif. She has more than three decades of journalism experience, with particular expertise in employee benefits and other human resource topics.
