Article: Disease management program added to county health plan.

Byline: Tim Jamison

May 9--WATERLOO -- The Black Hawk County Board of Supervisors is banking on an ounce of prevention to provide a pound of relief in their employee health insurance fund.

Board members voted Tuesday to begin funding a disease management effort and separate employee assistance program starting July 1 in hopes that healthier employees reduce overall medical costs to the county's self-insured health plan and improve workplace productivity.

"I think it is important that we look at the preventive side," said Supervisor Frank Magsamen, before the board voted unanimously to contract with Healthways Inc. for the disease management ...

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