StayWell Health Management

The ROI payoff of prevention and risk education

May 1, 2013 | Employee Benefit Adviser

How much, by when? That's the driving question surrounding employee health management programs

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Assessing an Organization's Approach to Health

May/June 2013 | American Journal of Health Promotion

There is a resurgence of attention to a "culture of health" as a vital best-practices component for wellness programs and new tools for measuring organizational readiness for making healthy choices easier.

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Leadership, Power, and Promoting Good Health

May/June 2013 | Health Promotion Practitioner

Leadership in health promotion

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Your Company Wants to Make You Healthy

April 8, 2013 | Wall Street Journal

Wall Street Journal: A look at the pros and cons of the most popular wellness programs used by companies. StayWell's Dr. Paul Terry quoted.

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Energy Company Generates Better Health for Employees

March 2013, Volume 4, Issue 1 | IAWHP: Worksite Health International

How does one of the world's leading energy companies with more than 25,000 employees spread across the United States alone create an employee health management initiative that is effective and easy to manage?

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How to Get the Most from Annual Health Screenings

February 1, 2013 | Managed Care Outlook V26, No3

Screenings have become increasingly important to employers in their efforts to develop and support a healthy workplace while educating employees and their family members.

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Companies make smokers pay

March 5, 2013 | MarketWatch WSJ

More firms are embracing nicotine testing to penalize puffers

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Dover Corporation launches robust wellness program in short time frame

March 1, 2013 | EBN Online

Dover Corp. doesn't mess around with wellness

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The Motivation Issue

March/April 2013 | American Journal of Health Promotion

I’m convinced the question has been and will be with me my whole life: “What really motivates people to change?”

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Why Do You Do What You Do?

March/April 2013 | Health Promotion Practitioner

Leadership in health promotion

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Want health insurance? Get on the scale

February 27, 2013 | MarketWatch WSJ

In order to be eligible for some — or all — of the company health plan, some employers now require employees to undergo biometric screening or fill out a health assessment

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ROI of Wellness: How Good Is the Data?

February 21, 2013 | SHRM Online

As employers consider investing in employee wellness programs, many want to know there will be a positive return on investment (ROI)

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Semi-Directive vs. Client-Centered Coaching

January/February 2013 | Health Promotion Practitioner

Lessons from Health Coaching

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Cross-Generational Health Promotion and Engaging Families

January/February 2013 | American Journal of Health Promotion

In this issue of The Art of Health Promotion our goal is to bring the kind of opinion leadership that is so vital to the diffusion of innovation. Good health and good ideas run in families.

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Coalition Cautions Employers to Weigh the Risks of Wellness Incentives

12/19/2012 | Workforce Management Online

Even as the use of financial wellness incentives flourish in the workplace, a number of nonprofit health organizations want to move cautiously.

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Study: Preventing Health Risks Has Rapid Payoff

December 2012 | SHRM Online

Although health risks have been associated directly with higher health care costs, and a growing body of research shows that improving health can generate a positive long-term return on investment (ROI).

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Study says prevention worth double for those with chronic conditions

December 5, 2012 | Employee Benefit News

StayWell and Towers Watson study featured in Employee Benefit News

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Borrowing Ideas From a Sister Movement

11/1/2012 | American Journal of Health Promotion

Exploring the connections between wellness, citizenship, volunteerism and the corporate social responsibility movement.

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Is there a Ceiling Effect for Participant Activation?

November/December 2012 | Health Promotion Practitioner

Lessons from Health Coaching

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With Weight Management, One Thing Leads to Another

October 2012 | Managed Care

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

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Self-Determination Runs Into a Wall (Actually, a Tree)

September/October 2012 | Health Promotion Practitioner

Lessons from Health Coaching

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The High Bar of Return on Investment in Wellness

September/October 2012 | American Journal of Health Promotion

The High Bar of Return on Investment in Wellness.

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Leading Through Contradictions

August 2012 | Managed Care

StayWell's CEO Paul Terry, Ph.D., "leaders can't fake authenticity".

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Incentive Strategies that Work: An Interview with David Anderson

August 2012 | Health Enhancement Systems

Today a growing number of employers are embracing wellness as a core strategy for controlling healthcare costs and enhancing employee performance.

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Shaping Up: Workplace Wellness in the '80s and Today

August 2012 | Workforce Management

Employer intervention in the health and wellness of workers has over the past 35 years evolved from a hunch that a healthier population could lower health care costs to a science of studies and sophisticated data-based research.

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The Mutualism of Culture and Engagement

July/August 2012 | American Journal of Health Promotion

In this edition of The Art of Health Promotion CEO Paul Terry, Ph.D., will summarize expert opinions on how to improve employee’s engagement.

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Groups Issue Guidance for Outcomes-Based Wellness Incentives

7/23/2012 | Society for Human Resource Management

Recommendations promote fair and effective rewards for meeting wellness goals.

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Guidance for a Reasonably Designed, Employer-Sponsored Wellness Program Using Outcomes-Based Incentives

July 2012 | Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

A joint consensus statement to provide guidance regarding appropriate use of outcomes-based incentives as part of a reasonably designed wellness program designed to improve health and lower cost while protecting employees from discrimination and unaffordable coverage.

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The Great Migration from Extrinsic to Intrinsic Motivation

July/August 2012 | Health Promotion Practitioner

Lessons from Health Coaching

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A Conversation With Paul E. Terry, PhD: The Advantage of Progress-based Incentives

July 2012 | Managed Care

Evolving approaches to health and wellness management under health care reform.

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The Weight of the Nation: How Many Rounds Ahead for This Public Policy Fight?

May 2012 | Managed Care

I expect the next 10 years of policy debates, action, and inaction concerning how to curb our obesity epidemic to be an accelerated version of the last 30 years of public policy related to fighting tobacco.

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Creating a Unified Wellness Program at Dover Corporation

May 2012 | Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM)

In management's view, creating a consistent approach to employee health improvement across the operating companies, while allowing these companies to maintain their individual personalities and cultures, was essential to Dover’s success.

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Intrinsic Motivation or Intrinsic Values?

May/June 2012 | Health Promotion Practitioner

Lessons from Health Coaching

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Respecting the Life Cycle of Ambivalence

March/April 2012 | Health Promotion Practitioner

Lessons from Health Coaching

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Balancing Accountability and Equity: Putting Progress-Based Incentives to Work in Wellness (Part 2 of 2)

Janaury/February 2012 | Health Promotion Practitioner

Lessons from Health Coaching

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More Employers Rewarding Healthy Workers With Cash

December 2011 | FoxNews.com

"Well-designed wellness incentives provide employees with a little extra nudge that may make the difference in whether they take advantage of these programs." - David Anderson, StayWell chief health officer

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Different jobs, varying health risks

December 2011 | Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal

When it comes to improving employee wellness — and keeping employers’ health care costs down — each industry faces its own unique challenges. StayWell experts respond.

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Stretching for savings

December 2011 | Minneapolis Star Tribune

Increasing numbers of small companies are embracing wellness programs to curb health care costs. It appears to be paying off.

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Progress-Based Incentives: Putting the Goldilocks Parable to Work in Wellness (Part 1 of 2)

November/December 2011 | Health Promotion Practitioner

Lessons from Health Coaching

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Health Reform and the Use of Financial Incentives in Wellness Programs

November 2011 | Managed Care

The Affordable Care Act codified the worksite wellness exemption to the federal medical underwriting provisions in the group health plan market.

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Latest thinking on wellness programs - Employers are putting more emphasis on and money into incentives

November 2011 | Employee Benefit Adviser Online

There are three pillars of engagement that are extremely important to wellness program success, said David Anderson, senior vice president and chief health officer of StayWell Health Management.

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Employee Programs Teaching Health Care “Consumer” Skills May Also Produce Health Benefits

October 2011 | Health Behavior News Service

A workplace program designed to teach employees to act more like consumers when they make health care decisions.

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StayWell participates in a Congressional briefing driven by Care Continuum Alliance and the Congressional Wellness Caucus

October 2011 | Care Continuum Alliance

On Oct. 24, 2011, the Care Continuum Alliance and Congressional Wellness Caucus, through the offices of co-sponsors Reps. Erik Paulsen, R-Minn., and Ron Kind, D-Wis., hosted a briefing to highlight employer initiatives in workplace wellness. They convened to answer a key question: What are the hallmarks of an effective employee health promotion program?

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Workplace wellness programs should focus on improvement, not participation

October 2011 | HealthCare Finance News

Paying employees to participate in a health assessment program may not be enough for employers who want to bring down their health insurance costs, says a new white paper from StayWell Health Management.

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The Essential Reading List, Part Two

July/August 2011 | Health Promotion Practitioner

Lessons from Health Coaching

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The Essential Reading List for Effective Coaches, Part One

March/April 2011

Lessons from Health Coaching

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Are Participants too Frail to Fail?

January/February 2011 | Health Promotion Practitioner

Lessons from Health Coaching

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Successful Losers are not the Biggest Losers

November/December 2010 | Health Promotion Practitioner

Lessons from Health Coaching

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Taking a Judicious Approach to Health Reform and Financial Incentives

September/October 2010 | Health Promotion Practitioner

Lessons from Health Coaching

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Dr. Phil Unplugged - Please!

July/August 2010 | Health Promotion Practitioner

Lessons from Health Coaching

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Are you conveying the VOI of coaching?

May/June 2010 | Health Promotion Practitioner

Lessons from Health Coaching

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When "stop" is the best answer.

April/May 2010 | Health Promotion Practitioner

Lessons from Health Coaching

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Rethinking Disease Management's Connection to Lifestyle Management

January/February 2010 | Health Promotion Practitioner

Lessons from Health Coaching

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Feeding a Fish vs. Teaching to Fish

November/December 2009 | Health Promotion Practitioner

Lessons from Health Coaching

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Pursuing Health and Performance: Critical Moments of Truth

September/October 2009 | Health Promotion Practitioner

Lessons from Health Coaching

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Incentives Done Right

July/August 2009 | Health Promotion Practitioner

Lessons from Health Coaching

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The Firm Grip of Culture

May/June 2009 | Health Promotion Practitioner

Lessons from Health Coaching

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