Report Abuse. Probably not. I have blue cross/blue shield and they're pretty good at having company bureaucrats ration health care to you while your premiums sore through the roof. When they don't cover a consultation, that's less money they pay out, and the more they make from you paying your monthly premium.popcorn Â· 6 years ago. Thumbs up. have blue cross/blue shield and they're pretty good at having company bureaucrats ration health care to you while your premiums sore through the roof. When they don't cover a consultation, that's less money they pay out, and the more they make from you paying your monthly premium. popcorn Â· 6 years ago.
One report by Fidelity Investments and the National Business Group estimated that mid-sized to large employers spent an average $521 per employee on wellness programs in 2013. Thatâs double what they spent just five years ago, health economists Austin Frakt and Aaron E. Carroll noted in The New York Timesâ Upshot.
By 2010, the size of these incentives leaped to $430 per employee and then to $460 in 2011. When it comes to the cost of the wellness programs themselves, employers were paying $108 per employee in 2009, $154 per employee in 2010 and $169 per employee in 2011.ack in 2009, employers paid out an average of $260 per employee for participating in a range of wellness programs, including weight-loss programs; programs designed to help individuals manage specific conditions, such as diabetes and insulin levels; and on-site flu shots.