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Business Group SitesAn Employer’s Guide to Preventive ServicesMillions of Americans suffer from preventable illnesses and injuries caused by modifiable health behaviors, resulting in high costs to employees and employers. With passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, certain preventive services must be covered by employers without employees having to pay a copayment or co-insurance or meet a deductible. This website houses all required clinical preventive services covered under ACA, as well as additional recommendations. Each clinical preventive service is accompanied by an evidence statement, summary plan description (SPD) language and CPT Codes. LightenUP: A Worksite Approach to Promoting Healthy Weight Management The LightenUP project funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute was to identify whether certain changes to the food and physical activity environment improve employee health. The Dow Chemical Company employees were provided greater access to healthy foods, health education materials, leadership training, physical activity and weight-management programs, health assessments and individual consultations, and online behavioral change programs. This website gives innovative and evidence-based interventions that can be implemented at your worksite and includes a customizable communication toolkit, ten tips for implementing wellness interventions and how to develop a health strategy and culture of health. Wellness Impact Scorecard a new online tool that allows employers to objectively and quantitatively assess the value of their wellness programs and initiatives. The Scorecard helps members identify appropriate metrics to determine the impact of wellness efforts, allows an employer to quantify the impact their programs are having and follow trends over time, improve program features and performance, and provides a process for employers to benchmark against peer companies. Tobacco: The Business of Quitting – An Employers Website for Tobacco Cessation — According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), each employee who smokes costs their employer $1,623 in excess medical expenditures. This website features practical solutions to reducing health care costs related to smoking and comprehensive step-by-step guidance to employers to help reduce employee tobacco use and workplace smoking. Whether your company is just getting started or is ready to evaluate the effectiveness of your program, this site includes resources for you, including employer case studies, treatment options and data to help make the business case for the implementation of a successful program. 26th National Conference on Health, Productivity and Human Capital — At the 26th National Conference, Managing Workforce Effectiveness: Reducing Absence and Improving Performance, you will learn about new research and evidence-based solutions to help you effectively manage your organization's workforce and address your organization's absence, engagement and performance issues. Specifically, the conference will highlight employer solutions and best practices focused upon absence, disability and leave management, health and workforce effectiveness role in the global marketplace, health and workforce effectiveness management, life balance and health issues. This site will provide access to the agenda, conference brochure, exhibitor and sponsorship opportunities, hotel information, registration, and more. The 26th National Conference on Health, Productivity and Human Capital will take place October 17-19, 2012 in Washington, DC. Business Health Agenda 2012 — Join your colleagues at the premier corporate health benefits conference! This year's conference "The Glide Path Ahead: Strategies and Solutions for Employer-Sponsored Health Care" will be held on March 7-9, 2012 at the JW Marriott in Washington D.C. At this year's conference you will have numerous opportunities to network with your peers while finding out the latest on: employer innovations in health care delivery, reference-based pricing, private health insurance exchanges, on-site health and wellness centers, outcomes based wellness incentives, tailored network solutions, alternative treatment decision support, assessing health improvement investments, harnessing mobile technologies for employee engagement, health care consumerism, effective complex case management, driving benefits strategy with data, benefits strategy amidst uncertainty about the Affordable Care Act, briefing the C-Suite on the business implications of the Affordable Care Act, highlights of the annual National Business Group on Health/Towers Watson Employer Survey of Health Benefit Trends and much more! Visit the conference website to register for the conference, view the agenda, find things to do in DC, secure your hotel room, and find out more information on our Pre-Conference Innovations Meeting: Next Generation Health Care on March 7, 2012. We look forward to seeing you there! Global Health Benefits Institute — This site provides information for members of the Business Group's Global Health Benefits Institute, a group of multinational employers that have come together to collaborate for approaches to common health and productivity challenges in countries around the world. This site enables members to access their online workroom, country location database, and obtain information developed through its strategic workgroup initiatives. |
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