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...cigarettes a day and packed 210 puffy pounds on a 6-ft. 1-in. frame. Now the 29-year-old systems analyst no longer smokes, and his scale registers 170 lbs. Though he had intended to stop smoking and lose weight, Benda got started with the help of an extra incentive: a company-sponsored program that rewards employees for taking steps to safeguard health. By attending smoking or stress workshops, exercising for at least 20 minutes, keeping their weight down, wearing seat belts while driving, or installing smoke detectors at home, employees of the New Jersey consumer health-care giant...
...each mile run or walked, each quarter-mile swum or four miles bicycled. At Scherer Brothers Lumber Co., boasts Vice President Gregory Scherer, "We have no sick pay, we have well pay." For each month that a worker is neither late nor out ill, the Minneapolis firm awards an extra two hours of salary. And employees who lose no more than three days a year to on-the-job injuries can collect a bonus...
...form asks about such stressful experiences as divorce and job changes, even whether the employee carries a gun. Based on the responses, workers are assigned a "health age." If it is more than two years above their actual age, they have three years to shape up or lose the extra 5% reimbursement. In Bellevue, Wash., city workers gain "points" according to the cost of their health insurance. They lose a point for each dollar received in medical claims, and the value of the points (currently 9¢) goes up as the number of claims filed by all covered workers goes down...
...route to savings is encouraging workers to buy health services more wisely. "People don't need half or more of all care," claims California Blue Shield Senior Vice President Larry Parcell. "Doctors still see people for head colds." Under the Berol Corp. plan, a worker is credited with an extra $500 a year, which is then reduced by the amount paid out by the insurance company for each claim; the employee gets to keep whatever is left. The company is saving $125,000 a year in reduced medical-coverage premiums. At King Broadcasting in Seattle, where workers...
...pleased last January when he discovered that his grandson Kenneth, 10, had made about 2,000 calls to a sports-trivia number. Kenneth had won a television set in the process, but he had also run up a $1,316 bill in calls to the special number. Extra-charge telephone numbers that begin with 976 are now available in nearly two dozen states. Says O'Geese: "I think it's wrong. They should explain to kids that there is a charge for the service...