Interactive Health has launched a comprehensive wellness solution called Healthy Triumph. The tool is designed to support employers as they respond to health care reform mandates that focus on wellness and preventive care. The program emphasizes early detection of health risks while helping employers reward employees for proactive health management.
(800) 840-6100 | www.interactivehealthinc.com | sales@interactivehealthinc.com
Honeywell Safety Products has launched an array of workplace safety products. These include a full-body harness designed for comfort and safety, an interactive tool designed to calculate critical safety information, and ultra-lightweight wide-view safety goggles.
(800) 430-549 | www.honeywellsafety.com | informationsp@honeywell.com
Parago Inc. has announced the launch of a wellness reward suite. This suite of reward and incentive options is tailored to employer-sponsored wellness programs and offers compelling, health-oriented incentives. The package includes a range of rewards such as prepaid bank cards, gift cards and e-gift codes.
(866) 219-7533 | www.parago.com | sales@parago.com
The Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America has launched a video series focusing on the health care reform law’s impact on brokers and employers. The videos offer viewers insights on topics such as insurance exchanges, small-business issues and employee-paid benefits.
(212) 598-8000 | www.aboutemployeebenefits.com | info@aboutemployeebenefits.com
Interactive Health has launched a new comprehensive wellness solution. Healthy Triumph is designed to support employers as they respond to the health care reform mandates specific to wellness and preventive care. The program focuses on early detection of health risks while helping employers reward employees for proactive health management.
(800) 840-6100 | www.interactivehealthinc.com | sales@interactivehealthinc.com
Honeywell Safety Products has launched an array of workplace safety products. These include a full-body harness designed for worker comfort and safety, an interactive tool designed to calculate critical safety information, and ultra-lightweight wide-view safety goggles.
(800) 430-5490 | www.honeywellsafety.com | informationsp@honeywell.com
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and Blue Cross and Blue Shield have launched a redesigned online national doctor and hospital search engine. This online tool is available to clients nationwide. The new version of the National Doctor and Hospital Finder offers participants in these health plans an easy way to find the best providers for their health care needs.
(877) 827-5258 | http://provider.bcbs.com | info@bcbs.com
UnitedHealthcare has added accident protection to its voluntary benefits product offering for employers. The accident protection plan provides cash benefits that can help limit employees’ out-of-pocket expenses after an accident. The benefit can help cover lost income plus pay deductibles and co-payments.
www.uhc.com/employers.htm | info@www.uhc.com
Select International has launched its Safety Suite of Solutions, which features assessment tools for identifying and selecting job applicants with strong safety-related backgrounds. This software tool includes guidelines and assessments designed to improve the safety performance of existing employees.
(800) 786-8595 | www.selectinternational.com | tmuehlfeld@selectintl.com
Health Dialog is now providing its online WELLNESS Dialog platform to HR professionals in the United States free of charge for one year. The program offers healthy competitions for prizes, including fitness devices, activity-focused video games, gift cards and charitable donations.
(617) 406-5200 | www.healthdialog.com | info@healthdialog.com
ADP and The Vitality Group have joined together to launch the ADP Vitality wellness solution. The solution is an incentive-based wellness program that midsize employers can use to lower health care costs by motivating employees to make healthier lifestyle choices.
(800) 225-5237 | www.adp.com/wellness | support@adp.com
Willis North America’s Human Capital Practice has developed and released several enhancements to its Health Care Reform Impact Analysis Calculator. The calculator is designed to help employers understand and address the financial impacts of the new regulations and requirements of the federal health care reform law.
(212) 915-8888 | www.willis.com | info@willis.com
Argus Dental Plan has launched the Dental Saving Account. The account is designed to reduce patient out-of-pocket expenses through a Preferred Dentist Network. Benefits include reducing maximum annual contributions, setting maximum fees for dental procedures and providing fund rollovers.
(877) 864-0625 | www.argusdental.com | info@argusdental.com
InteliSpend Prepaid Solutions has joined with gBehavior to provide wellness expertise, program designs and program delivery to employers that use InteliSpend’s services. The partnership is focused on helping reduce health care costs for employers and employees by improving wellness programs and plan participants’ health care knowledge.
(888) 234-7725 | www.intelispend.com | info@intelispend.com
Aetna Everactive is a new web-based social community and online resource designed to help people find and participate in local health-related events. Aetna’s clients can now offer Aetna Everactive to employees as a no-cost wellness benefit.
(888) 543-7223 | www.aetnaeveractive.com | info@aetnaeveractive.com
Every U.S. health care consumer has access to YourCity.MD, an online resource with information on providers and services available in users’ communities. YourCity.MD is designed to help employers and health care plan sponsors improve the health and productivity of their plan participants. By helping participants become more knowledgeable consumers, YourCity.MD can help reduce health care costs. Users can connect to a YourCity.MD database hub by entering their ZIP code; they then have immediate access to top-quality medical information and can communicate with others in their communities.
www.mycity.md | support@yourcity.md
Aetna has announced that it will offer MyBrainSolutions as part of its wellness and behavioral health benefits services. Developed by Brain Resource Ltd., MyBrainSolutions is an interactive brain-training website that brings together games, videos and trackers designed to improve stress management strategies, memory and attention. These services are designed for employers looking to improve productivity and the health and well-being of their workforces. The services are designed to give adults tools to take charge of their well-being and job performance. MyBrainSolutions uses an objective personal assessment to measure areas of brain performance and then matches individuals to specific training games and exercises.
(415) 399-7990 | www.brainresource.com | info@brainresource.com
Cigna’s new customer website, myCigna.com, allows customers to assess medical costs—including specialist, facility and other health-related fees. The site takes into account and adjusts for the real-time status of health plan deductibles and co-insurance, as well as available funds in health spending accounts. This online resource is designed to help employers lower their health care costs by making plan participants more-informed health care consumers. The service allows customers to compare caregiver costs for performing a procedure at different hospitals.
(800) 853-2713 | www.mycigna.com | info@mycigna.com
UnitedHealthcare International is now offering international health insurance coverage to businesses with employees in the Middle East through a strategic alliance with Dubai-based Al Sagr National Insurance Co. This alliance provides local health coverage and services for UnitedHealthcare’s Global Solutions clients in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar, Oman, Lebanon, Bahrain and Kuwait.
(800) 328-5979 | www.unitedhealthgroup.com/global | uhg_webmail@uhc.com
Accident Fund Insurance Co. of America has launched a website for workers’ compensation news, information and resources that can help keep employees safe and their workers’ comp costs down. Users can register to receive WorkSafe solutions e-mails with news and information for the industries of their choice. The site features the resources and tools available to Accident Fund customers. Its WorkSafe Toolbox gives employers access to online training, safety videos and other educational materials.
(866) 206-5851 | www.accidentfund.com | corpcomm@accidentfund.com
Harris, Rothenberg International and CareCounsel LLC have joined to deliver health care advocacy services to employees of Harris, Rothenberg clients. The advocacy services are designed to help employees and their family members find health care providers and then use health care services appropriately. The service offers participants personal, one-on-one assistance with navigating claims, finding providers and solving problems before they escalate and negatively affect wellness, health insurance costs and job performance.
(800) 441-7509 | www.hriworld.com | info@hriworld.com
Integrated Healthcare Strategies has announced the availability of new advisory services for hospitals and health systems involved in mergers and acquisitions. The consulting solutions offer a proactive approach that guides HR professionals through an HR due diligence process and helps ease employee and culture integration issues that are critical to mergers and acquisitions. The service offers clients guidance in identifying and quantifying liability exposure to help improve manager efficiency and reduce costs.
(800) 327-9335 | www.ihstrategies.com | info@ihstrategies.com
Encouraging employees to take advantage of vision benefits to promote eye health and optimal sight, Transitions Optical Inc. has introduced an individual version of the Healthy Sight Calculator. This online tool allows users to calculate their risk for eye-related diseases and vision problems, and how much they could save in time, money and sight with the correct vision care. The tool can be used by employers to educate their workers or directly by consumers at www.healthysightcalculator.org.
(800) 533-2081 | www.transitions.com | info@transitions.com
FitFeud has introduced an analytics dashboard designed to help employers organize and track weight-loss competitions among employees. Research has shown that weight-loss contests can help employees lose weight. The dashboard provides corporate wellness directors and benefits managers with an intuitive software tool that places analytics, competition performance data and activity updates at their fingertips. The dashboard will offer managers quick access to real-time insight on the effectiveness of their employees’ wellness competition.
(202) 713-5868 | www.fitfeud.com | info@fitfeud.com
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies have developed and launched a health care analysis tool designed to educate health care plan participants about the true costs of health care treatments and procedures. This online tool provides consumers with greater transparency by shedding light on the cost of 59 common elective procedures for inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic services at hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and radiology centers. This interactive resource was developed through a collaboration of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies, and is now being expanded nationwide. Employers with Blue Cross Blue Shield plans and plan participants now have access to information about the cost of health care in virtually every ZIP code of the United States.
(800) 972-8382 | www.bcbs.com | info@bcbs.com
A new website from Principal Wellness Co. offers employers and employees an innovative approach to workplace wellness. The site can be tailored for any employer and draws from a range of resources to provide a single online source for tools and information that can help improve wellness programs. Through the site, employers can find information on overall health and wellness trends. Employees will have access to information on how to achieve their wellness goals and earn employer-sponsored incentives. The site provides each employee with a personal home page that automatically evolves to meet individual needs.
(800) 986-3343 | www.principal.com/wellness | info@principal.com
PayFlex Systems has launched HealthHub, an employer-provided health solution designed to help health plan participants make informed and cost-effective health care choices. HealthHub links health care finance and wellness resources on a single website and provides mobile access to consumer-directed health care information. The site offers consumers one-click access to information and services on how to make the best and most affordable health care choices for themselves and their families.
(800) 284-4885 | www.payflex.com | healthhubinfo@payflex.com
Golandsky Institute and Move Right Therapeutics have developed and released the video series "Healthy Typing." The videos focus on preventive care for repetitive stress injuries by using the Taubman-Golandsky Approach. For years, this approach for healing and preventing repetitive stress injuries has been taught to musicians at the Golandsky Institute at Princeton University. The videos demonstrate how the technique can be applied to computer users and how workers can prevent and overcome repetitive stress injuries in the workplace.
(888) 491-5559 | www.healthytyping.com | questions@healthytyping.com
GlobalFit and Global Affiliates Inc. have launched GlobalFit and Destination: You, a program designed to increase physical activity in the workplace. The program uses an activity tracker that participants attach to their shoes. The tracker records the steps participants take and calculates the calories burned and time of activity. The tracker can detect whether users are walking, running, riding a bicycle or just moving their feet around. A second tracker attaches to participants’ computers and can immediately update their progress and activity throughout the workday.
(800) 294-1500 | www.globalfit.com | info@globalfit.com
Accident Fund Holdings Inc. has announced the launch of Third Coast Underwriters, a specialty market business that will develop workers’ compensation insurance policies and deliver them to underserved markets. Third Coast will offer workers’ compensation policies with a $150,000 minimum premium for markets such as construction, clean energy and green jobs, and for transportation jobs such as garbage hauling and bus driving. Third Coast will also offer policy options for businesses undergoing mergers and acquisitions. Third Coast is backed by Accident Fund Holdings Inc.
(866) 641-2328 | www.3cu.com | corpcomm@accidentfund.com
Nurtur Health Inc. has announced a campaign to introduce its life and health management services. Nurtur’s Got Life? campaign is based on the concept that "the way to health is through life." The company has developed a transparent methodology that helps demonstrate the impact of wellness and health management programs in three business metrics: productivity, utilization and risk reduction.
(800) 293-0056 | www.nurturhealth.com | nurtur@nurturhealth.com
The Principal Financial’s Value-Based Health Benefit is a new program that integrates health and wellness benefits. The approach can provide financial incentives to employees who practice and use preventive medical care and demonstrate healthy behaviors. The program is designed to increase employee engagement in health and wellness and provide benefit options to businesses. Employees, who work to improve their health through preventive screenings and educational programs, may receive better health benefits at a lower cost. In addition to lower premium contributions, employees and plan participants can qualify for lower deductibles, cheaper co-payments and reduced out-of-pocket maximums.
(800) 986-3343 | www.principal.com | info@principal.com
Walgreens has launched the Walgreens Optimal Wellness program, a self-care educational program for people with chronic conditions that will initially focus on people with Type 2 diabetes. Optimal Wellness will use a patient-centric approach that works in conjunction with primary care physicians to help patients understand their condition better. The program focuses on individual health coaching and diabetes counseling. By using accessible community pharmacies, the wellness program offers patients tools to help them live healthier and more productive lives.
(800) 925-4733 | www.walgreens.com | info@walgreens.com
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