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Cost for Weight by Additional Risk
Factors |
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Average annual paid healthcare costs (including pharmacy)
from 1997 to 2000; N=222, 933. |
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Total Costs of Unhealthy
Lifestyles |
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Productivity Losses= 2 x Annual Healthcare Costs |
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Example: A company with 500 employees spends $4,606,500 on
direct health care costs each year. The company’s
productivity losses equal $9,213,000 per year. Total cost of
unhealthy employees: |
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4,606,500 |
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+ 9,213,000 |
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$13,819,500 per year |
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Source: Goetzel, Journal of Occupational and
Environmental Medicine, 2004 |
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Based on group size of 500 and $9,312 per employee
expenditure. 2008 Towers Perrin
Annual Health Care Cost Survey |
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