• The Problem
• The Opportunity
• The Benefits

The Opportunity

If you're like most employers, you recognize that poor employee health habits are the largest obstacle to maintaining affordable healthcare coverage. What you may not realize is that 75% of all healthcare costs result from preventable, chronic conditions. In fact, just four common conditions – tobacco use, insufficient physical activity, poor eating habits and excessive alcohol use – are responsible for much of the illness, disability and premature death experienced as a result of modifiable chronic behaviors.

EngagementHealth's® wellness program delivers a proven solution:

• We make it easier for employees to understand and accept responsibility for maintaining good health.
• We engage employees on a weekly basis to pursue the healthy behaviors that get them well and keep them well.
• We focus on the preventable chronic conditions that contribute the most toward increasing healthcare costs, including weight management, diet and nutrition, exercise, reduced stress, lowered cholesterol, diabetes prevention and tobacco cessation.

Most importantly, we add reason to your medical benefits program by allowing you to reward employees who take action toward improving their health with lower deductibles.

The Real Costs of Preventable Chronic Disease

• Seven of the 10 most common chronic conditions – cancer, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, mental disorders, pulmonary conditions and stroke – annually account for $277 billion in direct health care costs and $1 trillion in reduced productivity due to absenteeism.
• Tobacco use costs more than $193 billion each year; $96 billion in healthcare expenditures and $97 billion in lost productivity.
• Lost productivity due to smoking and smoking-related illness costs employers $1,897 per smoking employee.
• Each year, an estimated 39 million work days are lost to obesity-related illnesses.
• Diabetes-related prescriptions rank in the top two treatment expenses for employers.
• The estimated direct and indirect costs of all types of cardiovascular disease in 2009 totaled $475.3 billion.