St. Louis – August  2011 – How can employers and governments encourage individuals to practice healthier behaviors? How can companies get their workers to stop smoking, watch what they eat, consume less alcohol, take their medicine and change their diet? One of the most promising methods is to offer incentives within corporate sponsored wellness programs, according to a new study from the Incentive Research Foundation (IRF). The study affirms the role and success of wellness incentive programs – important findings in light of the forthcoming 2014 implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s provisions that increases the potential funding  of wellness incentives to equal as much as 50 percent of the per worker total health care premium.

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