New Survey Finds Employers are Spending More on Wellness Programs

Corporate employers plan to spend an average of $594 per employee on wellness-based incentives within their health care programs this year, a 15-percent increase from the 2013 average, according to an employer survey by Fidelity Investments and the National Business Group on Health.

The survey included 151 companies and found that 95 percent of companies plan to offer some kind of health improvement program for their employees, and the percentage of companies offering incentives to participate in these initiatives has increased from 57 percent in 2009 to 74 percent in 2014, Fidelity and NBGH said in their press release.

Read more about the survey here.