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Do E-Cigarette Users Qualify for Premium Differentials?
March 29, 2012 12:38 PM by yukiy
Yuki Yang, Vice President of Client Services Today I’d like to address a few questions about e-cigarettes in the workplace, which arose from the Q&A section of our last webinar, Best Pract... [More]
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Best Practices for Premium Differentials in Tobacco Cessation: Key Takeaways
March 20, 2012 4:16 PM by yukiy
Yuki Yang, Vice President of Client Services Thanks to everyone who joined us for our webinar presentation, Best Practices for Premium Differentials in Tobacco Cessation on March 13 and 20. We&rsquo... [More]
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Creating a Nicotine Testing Policy for Your Worksite
March 14, 2012 2:01 PM by yukiy
Yuki Yang, Vice President of Client Services Last week I wrote about the growing trend of employers to administer cotinine tests (otherwise known as nicotine tests) to verify employees’ tobacc... [More]
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Nicotine Testing for Employee Tobacco Use Status
March 09, 2012 12:56 PM by yukiy
Yuki Yang, Vice President of Client Services An increasing number of organizations now offer premium differentials for tobacco cessation at their worksites. By the end of 2011, 40% of Alere Wellbeing... [More]
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Why Pay for a Premium Differential (When You Already Pay for a Tobacco Cessation Program)?
March 02, 2012 8:10 AM by yukiy
Yuki Yang, Vice President of Client Services In my last blog post, I gave a few examples of the types of premium differentials we often see our clients implementing at their worksite to encourage to... [More]
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Defining the Premium Differential
February 29, 2012 8:16 AM by yukiy
Yuki Yang, Vice President of Client Services Tobacco users know that tobacco use is not good for their health - but many have a hard time quitting. Often an outside motivator, such as a financial in... [More]
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Help Them Quit Smoking: The Role of the Employer in Rewarding Behavior Change
February 21, 2012 10:29 AM by yukiy
Yuki Yang, Vice President of Client Services Tobacco use remains the number one cause of preventable death and disease in the United States and costs employers an estimated excess cost of $21 per sm... [More]
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Ivy League Benefits?
October 29, 2008 4:28 PM by yukiy
Yuki Yang, Senior Director, Client Services:   What does it take for an Ivy League school to offer its employees a benefit that could decrease their healthcare spend while increase the h... [More]
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Cessation Benefits: A Family Affair
July 11, 2008 8:30 AM by yukiy
Yuki Yang, Senior Director, Client Services:   A new study recently released in Perth found higher levels of nicotine and other tobacco-related particles inside the homes of smokers comp... [More]
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Smoking Bans in WA: Tempers Still Occasionally Flare
July 03, 2008 8:18 AM by yukiy
Yuki Yang, Senior Director, Client Services:   Washington State’s smoking ban, passed on December 8, 2005 prohibiting smoking in all indoor public places and workplaces including r... [More]
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