Business Value of Health

Illness-related lost productivity costs employers $530B

Nov 15, 2018|

Employers put a lot of time and energy into managing their health care spending. But does anyone believe they put even a fraction of that effort into reducing the impact of illness on their bottom line? IBI's Full Cost Estimator (FCE) model reminds us why they should. Using millions of disability claims in IBI’s Benchmarking [...]

Improved productivity contributes to assessments of pharmaceutical value

Nov 12, 2018|

The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) is a non-profit organization that weighs the costs of prescription drugs against their clinical and social value. Their method is complex, but essentially it designates drugs as "high value" if they deliver an additional, quality-adjusted life year (QALY) for less than $50,000, and "low value" if the [...]

Happiness and the Bottom Line: The Happy Worker Prescription

Apr 12, 2016|

In this white paper, Lincoln Financial Group introduces the “Happy Worker Prescription.” Lincoln Financial Group reviews the research literature connecting employee happiness and productivity, explore the components of happiness, and describe why the findings are critical to employer success in the modern economic environment. Lincoln Financial Group concludes with a 10-step “prescription” for maximizing employee [...]