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Employers focus on chronic ailments

Incentive programs aim to control costs

By Diane E. Lewis
Globe Staff / May 4, 2006

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Hoping to slow rising healthcare costs, a small but growing number of employers are reducing or eliminating drug copayments for workers with chronic ailments, offering medical screenings at work, and helping employees with catastrophic diseases access clinical trials. (Full article: 774 words)

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