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News to Know – August 2015

USE OF ON-SITE HEALTH CLINICS POINTS TO REDUCED OVERALL HEALTH COSTS

ARTICLE APPEARS IN BY NICK OTTO | JULY 30, 2015   It’s no surprise the U.S. spends some of the highest amounts of health care costs than most other industrialized nations, and employers are fronting a quarter of those costs. Looking at ways to cure those costs SAS and Duke University recently published data from a Phase I study on the connection between on-site health care clinic usage and claims costs, with some surprising savings results for on-site clinic users.

MILLENNIALS EXPECTED TO CHANGE BENEFITS LANDSCAPE

ARTICLE APPEARS IN BUSINESS INSURANCE BY STEPHANIE GOLDBERG | AUGUST 3, 2015   Benefit offerings will continue to change as more millennials join the workforce, an expert said during the Disability Management Employer’s Coalition’s 2015 conference in San Francisco. There’s a shift from employer-paid to voluntary benefits, partly because younger workers want customization, Lindsey Pollak, author and millennial workplace expert at Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., said during a keynote session on Monday.

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