Fiscal Fitness

CORPORATE WELLNESS MAKES FISCAL SENSE

Can your company afford a corporate wellness program?

Research proves you can't afford NOT to.

Every employer, regardless of size, loses money each year due to employees health issues.

And the health problems that are costing employers the most money are preventable.

Rather than wait to PAY the costs of your employees failing health: why not SAVE up to four times that amount while watching your company improve in fiscal fitness in direct proportion to its physical wellness.

Obesity Is Costing Your Company

So, what do all of these obesity statistics really mean for the economic future of your company? Here’s how to find out: If you know the number of associates employed by your company, you can easily calculate the impact obesity is having on your bottom line. Research has shown that obese individuals add about $1,750 to a company’s healthcare expenses each year. Morbidly obese individuals usually add twice that amount.

Between 1990 and 2004, the number of obese adults in Massachusetts rose 80%. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts found that with every 1 percent increase in body mass index, an individual's annual health care costs goes up $120. Source: Boston Globe, March 22, 2006

Four of the ten most costly health conditions affecting employers are related to heart disease and stroke. Employees with these risk factors cost employers thousands of dollars more than healthy employees each year through higher insurance. Source: Goetzel, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 1998

Savings are documented in less money spent on medical costs and worker's comp claims, fewer sick days, and improved employee efficiency and productivity. Source: American Journal of Preventive Medicine, December 2005

Each smoker costs an employer an added $3,856 a year in health-care costs and lost productivity. Source: Billings Gazette December 10, 2005

Employers lose thousands of dollars each year in insurance costs for each employee with heart disease and stroke risk factors. Source: Goetzel, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 1998

U.S. healthcare costs doubled from 1990 to 2001: are projected to double by 2012 Source: Partnerships for Prevention (an organization of CEO's dedicated www.prevent.org)

"Of the $5000 per employee the average employer spent on health care in 2001, more than 95% was spent on diagnosis and treatment, with maybe 2-3% being invested in early detection (screenings) and no more than 1-2% in prevention. This reactive approach persists despite evidence that up to 50% of health care expenditures are life-style related and... Potentially preventable." David Anderson, PhD Wellness Councils of America's Absolute Advantage 2003

Nationwide smoking attributable productivity losses from 1997-2001 cost $92 billion. Source: Centers for Disease Control, June 2005

The National Safety Council stated in 1996, backaches alone cost industry more than $1.2 billion in production and services and $275 million in worker's compensation. Source: The American Council on Exercise, ACE Fitness Matters, January/February 2006

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Savings are documented in less money spent on medical costs and worker's comp claims, fewer sick days, and improved employee efficiency and productivity. Source: American Journal of Preventive Medicine, December 2005

Each smoker costs an employer an added $3,856 a year in health-care costs and lost productivity. Source: Billings Gazette December 10, 2005

Employers lose thousands of dollars each year in insurance costs for each employee with heart disease and stroke risk factors. Source: Goetzel, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 1998

U.S. healthcare costs doubled from 1990 to 2001: are projected to double by 2012 Source: Partnerships for Prevention (an organization of CEO's dedicated www.prevent.org)

Nationwide smoking attributable productivity losses from 1997-2001 cost $92 billion. Source: Centers for Disease Control, June 2005

The National Safety Council stated in 1996, backaches alone cost industry more than $1.2 billion in production and services and $275 million in worker's compensation. Source: *The American Council on Exercise, ACE Fitness Matters, January/February 2006***