June 2014
Employers Can Help to Prevent the High Costs of Chronic Diseases
Submitted by Karen Andalman on Tue, 06/17/2014 - 1:37pmPre-disease conditions can be managed before they develop into costly chronic diseases. Most employees with elevated cholesterol, elevated blood pressure or those that are overweight don’t normally incur costs to the health plan. But left untreated, these pre-disease risks can turn into high cost diseases. Because people are working longer today, the workforce and the employers are impacted by chronic diseases.
Statistics on adult Americans from the National Institute of Health are staggering: