As more workers battle diabetes, cancer, heart disease, mental illness and other health conditions, employers are finding ways to help them reduce health care costs and focus on overall worker health and well-being, according to a new report.
The International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans' Workplace Wellness 2017 Survey Report surveyed 530 U.S. and Canadian organizations, and found that diabetes is the number one condition impacting benefit plan health costs for 41 percent of the respondents.
The other top conditions impacting costs are cancer (33 percent); arthritis/back/musculoskeletal (32 percent); obesity (29 percent); heart disease (27 percent); hypertension/high blood pressure (26 percent); depression/mental illness (20 percent); high cholesterol (11 percent); smoking (9 percent); and high-risk pregnancy (4 percent).
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Katie Kuehner-Hebert
Katie Kuehner-Hebert is a freelance writer based in Running Springs, Calif. She has more than three decades of journalism experience, with particular expertise in employee benefits and other human resource topics.
