CVS Employees Required to Report Weight, Body Fat for Insurance
Employees at the drugstores who don't report will face increased rates.
What would you do if you went in to work one day and your employer told you that you needed to report your weight, body fat and glucose levels or your insurance costs would jump by $600 a year?
CVS employees are dealing with that very issue right now, according to the Boston Herald.
"This is an incredibly coercive and invasive thing to ask employees to do,” Patient Privacy Rights founder Dr. Deborah Peel told the Herald, adding that mounting health care costs have made these policies increasingly common.
According to the Herald's report, CVS Caremark employs 200,000 workers and all of them, including those at the Westford Valley Marketplace location, are being required to report their metrics by May 1.
The company has dubbed the request “a health screening and wellness review so that colleagues know their key health metrics in order to take action to improve their numbers, if necessary.”
Dick
10:08 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013
My sympathies to the folks at CVS.
Daniel Iknaian
6:57 am on Sunday, March 24, 2013
A lot of companies are doing this and its not a bad thing so many americans over overweight that I think there needs to be more forcefulness in getting people to look after themselves. I worked for a company that does this same thing and if you are over weight or have high colesterol they will give you a discounted rate on a dietician and health managment specialist. Sad that its come down to this, to get people to take care of themselves.