employee wellness incentives

UnitedHealth developing employee wellness-connected, healthy vending machine

By Aditi Pai 08:29 am April 6, 2015

Existing UnitedHealthCare tool At the HxRefactored event in Boston last week, UnitedHealth Group Vice President of Innovation and R&D Kunjorn Chambundabongse discussed the strategy behind the payor's internal incubation group and revealed one of the group's newest projects, a vending machine that will sync up with employee wellness plans. Chambundabongse said that, according to IDC, one...

Survey: Employers spend about $700 per head on wellness incentives, but few workers partake

By Jonah Comstock 09:05 am March 26, 2015

A new survey of 121 employers from Fidelity Investments and the National Business Group on Health shows that employer spending on incentive-based wellness programs is up an average of $100 per head over last year. Respondents said they planned to spend an average of $693 per employee on wellness incentives in 2015, up from $594 in 2014. It was $430 five years ago. While 79 percent of companies...