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Plan members’ financial strain a call to action for plan sponsors: 2024 BCHS report launch

Jennifer Paterson — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:00:30 +0000

Canadian health benefits plan members are increasingly feeling financially strained, according to the 2024 Benefits Canada Healthcare Survey — a finding that experts say should be a call to action to employers to include more financial wellness supports in benefits plans. Personal finances has remained plan members’ top stressor for the past two years, with […]

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Diabetes medications remain leading drug category for eligible claims in 2023: report

Sadie Janes — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:00:23 +0000

In 2023, diabetes medications remained the leading drug category for eligible private insurance claims for the second consecutive year, according to Telus Health’s annual drug trends report. The report, based on claims data from more than 15 million plan members in 2023, found the growing prevalence of diabetes, along with expanded heart failure treatment indications and […]

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A closer look at how chronic conditions are impacting benefits plans

Sadie Janes — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 12:56:25 +0000

In 2022, some of the top chronic conditions affecting group benefits plans were diabetes, obesity, depression and arthritis. Diabetes was the No. 1 ranked condition for drug claims in 2022, knocking rheumatoid arthritis down to the No. 2 spot, according to Telus Health’s annual drug plan trends report. And the 2023 Benefits Canada Healthcare Survey […]

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Half of benefits plan members understand their plan extremely or very well: survey

bwolfe — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 13:00:29 +0000

Half (51 per cent) of Canadian benefits plan members say they understand their plan extremely or very well, down from 65 per cent in 2018, according to the 2023 Benefits Canada Healthcare Survey. It found plan members’ top sources for information about their benefits plan were websites (69 per cent), followed at some distance by […]

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54% of benefits plan members currently live with at least one chronic condition: survey

Sadie Janes — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 13:00:35 +0000

More than half (54 per cent) of Canadian benefits plan members currently live with at least one diagnosed chronic health condition, according to the 2023 Benefits Canada Healthcare Survey. It found the top current diagnoses were a mental-health condition such as depression or anxiety (18 per cent), high cholesterol (12 per cent), arthritis (12 per […]

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How employers can support employees with psoriatic conditions

Sadie Janes — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 14:00:15 +0000

In 2021, more than 50 per cent of people with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis said their condition has had a negative impact at work, according to Antonella Scali, executive director at the Canadian Psoriasis Network, speaking during a session at the annual Canadian Arthritis Research Conference last week. People living with inflammatory conditions often report […]

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Using nutrition, health coaching to help plan members with diabetes

bwolfe — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:00:04 +0000

When People Corp. started looking into reducing its claims numbers related to chronic disease, it decided to tackle what Judith Plotkin, vice-president of health and wellness solutions, called “the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse:” diabetes, obesity, heart disease and high blood pressure. The four conditions are comorbidities not only with each other but other afflictions […]

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What are the top chronic diseases in the workplace?

mschmit — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 05:20:36 +0000

More than half (54 per cent) of Canadian workers reported having at least one chronic disease or condition, according to the 2019 Sanofi Canada health-care survey. The five most common issues were mental illness, hypertension, high cholesterol, arthritis and diabetes. Nearly half (42 per cent) of respondents also reported having chronic pain, describing it as […]

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Advice from a 38-year journey with rheumatoid arthritis

mschmit — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 03:57:43 +0000

As the former senior vice-president of sales in the group customer division of the Great-West Life Assurance Co., Jeff Aarssen is very familiar with drug plans and the challenges facing plans sponsors and administrators. But as someone who has suffered with rheumatoid arthritis for nearly four decades, he also sees those issues in a distinctive light: from the patient […]

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How one patient thrives despite four decades with rheumatoid arthritis

mschmit — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 05:58:14 +0000

A positive attitude is the key to a long and fulfilling life with chronic disease, according to a man who has spent almost four decades dealing with rheumatoid arthritis. “The mental approach you take to anything in life and the perspective you have is absolutely critical,” said Jeff Aarssen, who provided a patient’s perspective during […]

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