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Workspan Daily
10/08/2024
Access bonus Workspan Daily Plus+ content on this subject: Considerations to Manage the Costs of GLP-1 Coverage; Increasing Demand Poses Expensive Deliberations Among the nearly 300 employers surveyed by the IFEBP for a recent study, 34% are now covering GLP-1 drugs for both diabetes management and weight loss, up 8 percentage points from 12 months ago.
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Workspan Daily
08/26/2025
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Workspan Daily
06/02/2026
Workspan Daily article;As Interest in GLP-1 Drugs Spikes, Employers Weigh the Costs, Benefits , Workspan Daily article;Employers Grapple with the Rising Costs and Popularity of Specialty Weight-Loss Drugs , Workspan Daily article;Benefits and Well-Being Tech Demo Day , on-demand webinar;
As demand for glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) medications soars, so do health insurance costs.
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Workspan Daily
07/01/2025
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Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) medications are more top-of-mind than ever this year for employees — and they’re looking to their employers to help pay for
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Workspan Daily
06/04/2026
One of the research’s top outputs was that when employers provide behavioral health treatment programs as part of their employee rewards, the annual return to the organization is 507% — or slightly more than $6 for every $1 invested.
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Workspan Daily Plus+
07/01/2025
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The decision to cover glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) drugs, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, on a group health plan is a complex one.
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Workspan Daily
11/15/2024
Toward the HCE exemption, the DOL’s 2024 rule stipulated that classified workers make at least: $132,964 in total annual compensation on July 1 (up from the previous $107,432 outlined in the 2019 final rule), and;$151,164 on Jan. 1, 2025.; In effect, the Nov. 15 court decision: Nullified the Jan. 1 threshold increases;;Rescinded the July 1 increases;;Eliminated another increase slated for July 1, 2027; and,;Nixed the DOLrule’s automatic “escalator” provision, which would have increased the thresholds every three years going forward, starting with the July 1, 2027, compliance date.;
The 2019 thresholds of $35,568 for the EAP exemption and $107,432 for the HCE exemption — both set by the DOL under the first Trump administration — are poised to go back into effect, according to reports .
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Workspan Daily
09/04/2025
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The federal income tax credit for employers offering PFML was first introduced with passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
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Workspan Magazine
12/03/2025
Most large employers are requiring an ROI of at least 2:1 or 3:1 for each health management program offering.
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Workspan Daily
08/26/2024
One cost driver is the expanded use of glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) drugs, which primarily fight diabetes but recently have been prescribed to treat several “off label” conditions.
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