Wellness

Are human resources professionals biting their tongues when it comes to assessing wellness plans?

Where seniors live makes a difference not only in how much health care they receive but also the medications they're prescribed as some miss out on key treatments while others get risky ones, new research shows.

An OptumHealth team says productivity gains show up quickly.

Like anything else that becomes suddenly beyond popular, wellness plans are encountering blowback as more employers adopt them and fiddle with the incentive dials.

Workers who smoke cost the economy an estimated $278 billion annually.

The universitys benefits staff apparently learned that the carrot and the stick approach to wellness program engagement may not be the best way to encourage participation.