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Wellness and Benefits News Roundup: Health Literacy, Scanning, and Obesity
Bad news and good news in this roundup. Let’s do the good news first, for a change. Good News: Health Literacy A new report endorses...
Feb 1, 20193 min read


MRIs and CT Scans: Overused, Overpriced…and Overrated
The Journal of the American Medical Association says Americans are exposed to radiation, overtreatment and high costs via unnecessary...
Jan 23, 20192 min read


6 Myths and Facts About Employee Health Literacy
While employee health literacy is a fast-growing segment of employee health benefit services, what’s amazing is not the number of...
Jan 7, 20195 min read


Wellness & Benefits News Roundup | Breaking: EEOC Wellness Rules Now Unlikely Until 2020 or 2021
The EEOC put two lumps of coal in the wellness industry’s Festivus stocking late yesterday (12/20/18). One was expected. The other –...
Dec 21, 20183 min read


A Trip into the Treatment Trap: The Birth of Quizzify
by Al Lewis Does wondering how Quizzify got started keep you up at night? Wonder no longer… In 2012 I was hired to host a radio series...
Dec 14, 20184 min read


Wellness & Benefits News Roundup: Are Employees Getting Too Many Screens?
Normally we wait until we have three articles to “round up” but this one is compelling enough to round up on its own. Are Employees...
Dec 4, 20182 min read


Do you (and your employees) know these 3 important facts about dental care?
The best dental care trivia ever. Nowhere in healthcare is there a bigger gap between what employees should know and what they don't know...
Nov 19, 20184 min read


News Roundup: Low Health Literacy, Overtreatment by Physicians, and Overtesting of Diabetics
Do your employees understand basic health insurance terms? There are four basic terms in health insurance – deductible, co-pay,...
Nov 13, 20182 min read


Wellness and Benefits News Roundup: New EEOC Rulemaking Delay, Overscreening Concerns, Obesity Myths
New EEOC Rulemaking Delay The EEOC had intended to establish its “Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” (NPRM) this coming January. That...
Oct 26, 20182 min read


Can Healthcare Be Hazardous to Your Health? A review of Netflix’s The Bleeding Edge
[Post updated 10/25/18 to include dates.] One of the drawbacks of wellness is that focusing resources on risk factors that may pose...
Oct 22, 20184 min read


Wellness & Benefits News Roundup: New Diabetes Findings, Provant's Bankruptcy, & Too Many EKGs
Diabetic Employees Need Not Test Glucose Daily A study showed that non-insulin-dependent diabetics (meaning about 80% of them) do not...
Oct 19, 20182 min read


Wellness and Benefits News Roundup: Too Much Healthcare, Too Much Prevention, & Too Many Lab Tests?
The Commonwealth Fund found an inverse relationship between employer spending on healthcare and the number of preventable...
Oct 12, 20181 min read
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