Wellness

Medicare Advantage premiums have fallen by 7 percent, on average, while enrollment in the program has risen by about 10 percent since this time last year, according to Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

The big buzz in employer health care has been about wellness. All over the nation, companies have been rolling out programs to help their employees get healthier, and some have been more proactive than others.

Smokers won't be hired at new casinos in Columbus and Toledo, a ban that's been adopted in other industries as employers try to hold down health care costs.

Incentives can be broken down as simply as the carrot or the stick and often a well-balanced combination of both.

Aetna is thinking outside the workplace by going directly to consumers with wellness in mind.

The new rage in wellness is building outcomes-based programs which, depending on how you look at it, either provide an incentive to those that take care of their health or penalizes those who are unhealthy.

Pediatricians are supposed to track if youngsters are putting on too many pounds but a new study found less than a quarter of parents of overweight children recall the doctor ever saying there was a problem.

The wellness business is hot, and Uncle Sam wants in.