Reps Push Wellness Program to Cut Down on Health Costs

The Daily News Tribune
December 18, 2008

Describing a crisis of preventable illness draining billions of dollars in productivity from the state economy, Massachusetts health care leaders urged lawmakers Wednesday to knock down barriers to work-based employee wellness programs that can incentivize healthy behavior and cut down on health care costs...

According to the New England Healthcare Institute, companies such as Johnson & Johnson, CitiBank and General Motors have documented reductions in health risks resulting from wellness programs...

Health care advocates said seed money, tax credits, a ranking of the "healthiest places to work" and leveraging federal funds could help expand and encourage work-based wellness programs...

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