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  • A focus on mental fitness

    March 1, 2010

    The relationship between physical and mental maladies reinforces the need to keep a healthy mind, and OptumHealth has just the solution.

  • Upping the ante on wellness portals

    March 1, 2010

    A company name change isn't slowing down the next-generation Web portal under development at Onlife Health.

  • Employer wellness efforts hindered again by GINA restrictions

    December 2, 2009

    I wonder what's inside my jeans. Oh, correction, that would be genes. With the recent release of the final rule of the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act, it makes me wonder.

  • Up for the challenge

    December 1, 2009

    Who better to participate in Employee Benefit Adviser's second annual Broker Fitness Challenge than a woman who became a benefit broker precisely because she was looking for a challenge?

  • A New Year's resolution: Pump up that wellness program

    December 1, 2009

    A new year is about new beginnings. In addition to taking a personal health inventory, now also is a good time to pump up your clients' wellness programs. Whether their programs lost steam or never got off the ground, you can help your clients plan for a jump-start in the new year with a few basic steps.

  • Podcast: Open enrollment brings new employee costs, but also better wellness programs

    September 29, 2009

    So says new trends analysis from Watson Wyatt. Listen in as as Senior Consultant Tom Billet shares ...

  • Podcast: Are your clients prepared for the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Act?

    September 6, 2009

    Effective as early as October, the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Act issues new regulations for employers that will impact benefit plan designs. Listen in...

  • All's well at work

    September 1, 2009

    At more than 180 pounds lighter and dropping, no one can accuse Horne/Guest of paying lip service to wellness. Galvanized by strong engagement from the senior management on down, this South Carolina benefits firm is bringing the positive effects of their healthy office environment straight to their customers.

  • A corporate wellness program begins with the company culture

    September 1, 2009

    In today's global economy, successful companies recognize the importance of understanding other cultures. Understanding your clients' internal culture is crucial in creating a successful wellness program.

  • Personal health quest brings new perspective to sales pitch

    July 10, 2009

    Two months into EBA's second annual Broker Fitness Challenge, Benefits Group of New England's Rae Bunce shares how her own wellness efforts have brought a whole new vigor to talks with employers on the subject.

  • Do you need to be a wellness-certified adviser?

    July 1, 2009

    With so many wellness 'experts' in the employee benefits marketplace, brokers and advisers are looking for ways to stand out. Wellness certification may be one way you can do that.

  • LTC carriers giveth, and they also taketh away

    June 1, 2009

    Experts say that the long-term care insurance market will remain terra infirma for benefit brokers and other policy purveyors as carriers introduce new products and modify existing programs.

  • Carriers, advisers seek to tailor disability plans to help fit the times

    June 1, 2009

    Last summer, Jim Posey polled a client with 600 employees on their voluntary disability participation. Thirty percent were signed up. After the economic turmoil of the fall, that same group plummeted to 4% participation.

  • Advisers won't wait for wellness help

    June 1, 2009

    Among the slate of bills being reintroduced in Congress is the Healthy Workforce Act of 2009, which proposes a 10-year tax credit to employers covering up to 50% of the costs associated with establishing a qualified wellness program.

  • Plan designs help advisers connect wellness circuitry for small clients

    June 1, 2009

    In conjunction with a recent EBA Web seminar on 'wellness that works,' we asked participating benefit advisers and plan managers who has the easier road to wellness success, small companies or large companies?

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