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Workplace Wellness at Bargain Prices

MHC — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:04:13 +0000

In this day and age where money isn’t flowing from trees, it is hard for companies to justify spending money on employee wellness. Depending on what wellness program a company chooses, the starting up of a program can be costly. But does it pay off? Some research seems to indicate that it does. In one [...]

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Recent Corporate Wellness Trends

MHC — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:20:48 +0000

Wellness in general has changed over the years, which involves the increase in holistic thinking and in new and older alternative therapies. Nutrition, for example, has been a topic of increasing discussion among those who see and treat patients. At the same time, it has become important to lower the cost of the rising cost [...]

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Rise in Healthcare Costs

MHC — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:10:04 +0000

There’s no question that healthcare costs have been increasing over the years. In the US, the dollar amount has gone beyond $2.3 trillion dollars in 2008. This is three times the amount spent in 1990. And the problem goes beyond the US. Globally, healthcare costs have been increasing, in part due to increasing technology and [...]

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Healthy Happy Holidays

MHC — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:04:56 +0000

The workplace in the holiday season can be very stressful. There are more packages and there are more orders to process. People cope in different ways. Many eat too much and begin to gain weight. Others experience more stress in their lives. It’s flu season so there are quite a few sick people both at [...]

Healthy Happy Holidays is a post from: MHC Asia- Third Party Administration, Managed Care, Health Outsource Partner, Health Screening, Work Place Health

Three Ways to Cut Healthcare

MHC — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:58:03 +0000

One thing is clear: healthcare costs have spiraled out of our ability to control them. Secondarily, this problem has no sign of changing in the near future. US spent on 10 percent of its GDP on healthcare only twenty years ago. In 2008, those numbers rose to 16 percent. The costs are going up because [...]

Three Ways to Cut Healthcare is a post from: MHC Asia- Third Party Administration, Managed Care, Health Outsource Partner, Health Screening, Work Place Health

Companies not doing enough for wellness at the workplace

MHC — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:16:14 +0000

According recent studies, employees working for moderate to large companies feel that their employers are not doing enough to promote wellness in their work environment. There are many things a corporation can do and some are felt by the populace to be helpful while other are finding them to be lacking. Many employees appreciate to [...]

Companies not doing enough for wellness at the workplace is a post from: MHC Asia- Third Party Administration, Managed Care, Health Outsource Partner, Health Screening, Work Place Health

Healthcare Cost Transparency in Health

MHC — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:39:48 +0000

There has been an increased trend toward healthcare transparency—the revealing of the cost of doctor’s and dentist’s visits so that patients and the healthcare system in general can know the exact cost of healthcare in certain situations. The idea is to increase competition and hold doctors and dentists accountable for what they charge for a [...]

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Problems with Workplace Smartphones

MHC — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:14:34 +0000

Smartphones have become a part of workplace life. With massive capacity, smartphones can do much more than answer the phone for us. With Smartphones, however, our work does not always get left behind when we go home. At work, the thrill of leisure activities on the smartphone makes it more difficult to achieve expected productivity. [...]

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Company Wellness Works

MHC — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:50:54 +0000

As far as fitness, healthy eating and wellness goes, the American worker is doing poorly. Only fifteen percent of workers get enough exercise and forty percent do no exercise at all. Many believe their work is at fault and say they’d exercise if the company had an exercise room. Some employees are going to get [...]

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Company Doctor Compensation

MHC — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:42:33 +0000

Increasingly, corporations and companies are foregoing the visit to the emergency room, which can be expensive and take hours out of an employee’s time, and instead building on-site company medical centers staffed by company-employed doctors and nurses. When an injury or illness occurs, the “patient” is taken just a short distance away and is seen [...]

Company Doctor Compensation is a post from: MHC Asia- Third Party Administration, Managed Care, Health Outsource Partner, Health Screening, Work Place Health