Company Wellness : Smaller Employers Adopting Illness Management.

A recent survey finds almost 42 percent of businesss with 200 or fewer workers have some sort of disease management (DM) program.

That’s a gigantic increase from four years ago, when just 28% of smaller businesss offered such health promotion programs.

There’s more to come, too. Fifteen% of respondents that didn’t currently have a disease management component to their medical plan hope to add one by 2011.

The highest-demand disease management programs are for diabetes, asthma and heart disease.

Source –  Small Employer Benefits Survey, PDR Consulting Group, 9/1/2008.