Financial incentives that employers provide to employees participating in wellness programs generally could not be included in determining if an employee is exempt from a health care reform law ...

Companies that have been using financial incentives or other inducements as part of their wellness programs must reconsider those incentives in light of recent federal guidelines clarifying what ...

On Jan. 20, the Biden administration withdrew the proposed regulations from publication in the Federal Register under a regulatory freeze pending review until Biden's newly appointed EEOC chair, ...

With new regulations on incentive-based wellness programs still in limbo, offering more than minimal incentives to participate in activities such as health screenings—or imposing more than minimal ...

Promising workers lower health insurance premiums for losing weight did nothing to help them take off the pounds, a recent study found. At the end of a year, obese workers had lost less than 1.5 ...

Employer-sponsored wellness programs are designed to promote healthier lifestyles through health screenings, fitness incentives, and/or lifestyle coaching. In recent years, such programs have become ...

According to a recent survey conducted by Virgin HealthMiles, the four most common wellness programs offered by employers are physical activity programs (58 percent), smoking cessation programs (50 ...

Elk Grove Village, IL – The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and other groups recently published a joint statement (.pdf file) on best practices for using outcomes-based ...

Health Savings Account provider HSA Health Plan has partnered with Boston-based Wellable, an employer wellness company, to offer an incentive program to its members. Wellable’s digital, customizable ...

Getting in trouble with the law is pretty much the last thing on someone’s mind when starting a wellness program, right? Of course! Ad Loading... Employers who leverage wellness programs want to make ...

Boston – Employers increasingly are relying on financial incentives to encourage employee participation in health improvement programs, indicates a study released Feb. 9 by the National Business Group ...

Sworkit Health, in collaboration with Select Health and facilitated by a strategic relationship with Virgin Pulse, now Personify Health, announces an innovative wellness program designed to encourage ...