73% Of Employers Used Financial Incentives To Engage Employees In Health Improvement Programs

In 2011, about 73% of companies used incentives to engage employees in health-improvement programs. The incentives included cash, gift cards, and contributions to health savings accounts, with the average incentive value at $460 annually per person. Workplace health-improvement programs typically consist of condition-management services, lifestyle-management services, and health-risk management services. In addition to the cost of employee incentives, employers spent an average of $169 per employee on health-improvement programs in 2011. Employer costs for health improvement programs have increased by 56% since 2009, when the average cost (excluding incentives to employees) was $108. These . . .