“Well designed health promotion and disease prevention interventions work only if people participate. The higher the level of participation, the greater the potential savings to a health plan. These savings are not only from direct health care cost, but also from improved productivity at work and fewer absences. But the battle is how does a health plan engage members in participating in wellness and health promotion programming?”

Ask us; we will tell you how to engage your employees!

The Small Business Health Care Tax Credit is designed to help small businesses who have no more than 25 fulltime employees, not counting owners or their family members, and the average annual wages of employees must be less than $50,000 per fulltime employee. This health care tax credit also mandates that the owner of the small business must pay a least 50% of the single coverage for their employee’s to qualify for this credit. This credit is targeted at small business with the express intent to encourage organizations to offer health insurance coverage for their employees. We recommend that you discuss this credit with your tax consultant to determine your eligibility and potential credit amount should your company qualify.

A new test is available called the NMR LipoProfile. This test can predict the development of type 2 diabetes in women as early as 13 years before blood glucose test put them in the category of diabetic. Study’s done at Harvard University linked women with the greatest concentration of small LDL and HDL particles four times as likely to develop type 2 diabetes. The test suggests this occurs because the tiny particles are more densely packed with cholesterol and triglycerides. To learn more visit lipoprofile.com.