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Program incentives not always related to goals

Disease Management News, October 20, 2008

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Employers appear to use a shotgun approach in developing incentives programs to promote work force health and productivity, and the incentives they use aren’t always systematically related to employers’ goals.

That’s the word from a new survey released last week by the San Francisco–based Integrated Benefits Institute (IBI), which found that 73% of employers surveyed provide at least one incentives program. Midsize employers provide the most incentives, but even employers of fewer than 500 employees average more than four health and productivity incentives, the survey found.

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