Health Promotion

Pitney Bowes introduces guidebook on changing company health policy and practices

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, May 15th, 2006

For several years now, Pitney Bowes has been pushing the envelope on healthcare and benefits design with radical ideas such as increasing access to appropriate healthcare, including preventive tests and measures as well as reducing co-payments on certain prescription drugs used to manage chronic diseases.

The company's philosophy recognizes that healthy employees lead to a healthy bottom line. "Benefits have become an exercise in cost management, and we're not looking at the impact of [such measures] on the asset, the human asset," said Jack Mahoney, MD, corporate medical director and global healthcare management director.

Mahoney, along with David...

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Source: Obesity and Diabetes Week (2006-05-15)

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