Health Incentives Yield Mixed Results ; Experts Skeptical of Plans' Effectiveness.
Columbia Daily Tribune › August 04, 2010
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ATLANTA (AP) -- How much money would it take to get you to lose some serious weight? $100? $500?
Many employers are betting they can find your price. At least a third of U.S. companies offer financial incentives, or are planning to introduce them, to get their employees to lose weight or get healthier in other ways.See the full content of this document
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Health Incentives Yield Mixed Results ; Experts Skeptical of Plans' Effectiveness.
"There's been an explosion of interest in this," said Kevin Volpp, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Health Incentives.
Take OhioHealth, a hospital chain whose work force is mostly overweight. The company last year embarked on a program that paid employees to wear pedometers and get paid for walking. The more they walk, the more they win -- as much as $500 a year.Anecdotal...See the full content of this document
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