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Diabetes tops health care cost drivers, as employers seek solutions

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.

By Katie Kuehner-Hebert | Updated on August 15, 2017
Diabetes is the number one condition impacting benefit plan health costs for 41 percent of the respondents. (Photo: Shutterstock)

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. 

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Katie Kuehner-Hebert

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.

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