For Employers

 

Information for Employers

For business, the bottom line is this: Healthy employees are more productive.

  • Preventable chronic illness makes up 70 percent of health care costs1
  • According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, sick workers cost businesses $15 billion annually in insurance premiums
  • A one percent decrease in absenteeism can provide a one percent profit increase2
  • Somatic complaints (stress-related ailments) account for one quarter of all primary care visits in the country3

Starting a Workplace Wellness Program

There's good news amidst the dismal reports about the state of American health and its cost to employers. When you make the commitment to create a culture of wellness in your workplace, you may notice that:

  • Employee productivity rises
  • Absenteeism drops
  • Morale improves
  • Medical costs decrease
  • You become an employer of choice

Use this free step-by-step guide that includes the background, tools and resources to makes your program successful.

Find more worksite wellness tools and resources by visiting NDWorksiteWellness.org, a partnership between BCBSND, Dakota Medical Foundation and Healthy North Dakota.

Working well means a better bottom line.

Eating healthy, quitting smoking and getting exercise can do a lot more to help control costs than drugs, surgery and doctor’s visits. For every $1 spent on wellness programs, a business can potentially realize $3 in reduced medical claims and absenteeism.3

With increasing frequency, employees want their employers to provide wellness benefits. Many influential employers are showing employees that they care about health by providing health club credits, fitness programs, mental health benefits and more.

The Workplace Wellness programs from BCBSND include a variety of different ways to help the employees you care about get healthy and control spiraling health care costs.

To learn more, or to join the growing trend for wellness at work sign up, contact us or tour MyHealthCenter to learn how easy it is to add a broad, functional program at your workplace!


Worksite Wellness Resources

Use these links to access further information on your health care topics, questions and concerns. Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota does not necessarily endorse the linked web sites, we have not evaluated them for accuracy of information, and we do not monitor or oversee them in any way.

1 Cullen, Lisa Takeuchi. 2007. The Company Doctor. Time, June 25.
2 Doherty, Kathleen. 1989. Is worksite wellness good business? Business & Health, February
3 Colliver, Victoria. 2007. Keeping employees healthy. San Francisco Chronicle, June 15