Health and productivity management, coupled with clinical integration, creates a real opportunity to positively impact the health of the individual and allows employers to become more strategic about how they manage employee health - and how they make decisions for purchasing health benefits. |
Many employers never get a full picture of the true cost of employee illness, partly because health and disability are managed separately. Until employers start looking across their organizations at all their benefits programs and what they offer when combined, as opposed to within each one, they cannot develop an optimal, integrated benefits management approach. |