Obama's health-care law: The fitness and wellness provisions you ...

(Washington Post) Beginning in 2014, the health-care law will allow employers to increase incentives for participation in programs that require an employee to achieve an agreed-upon wellness goal, such as giving up tobacco or losing a certain amount of weight. The incentive can be as much as 30 percent of an employee?s insurance costs, and in some cases as much as 50 percent. That is up from 20 percent allowed by law now.

Employers also may continue to offer help that is not tied to outcome, such as subsidized gym memberships, health assessments and nutrition counseling, without limits on incentives? ?What the law is trying to do is give greater incentive to [those who] want to participate,? said Mayra Alvarez, director of public health policy in HHS?s office of health reform. ?Corporate America now understands that a healthy workforce is very productive and beneficial to their bottom line,? said Scott Goudeseune, president and CEO of the?American Council on Exercise.

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