CVS Employees Required to Report Weight, Body Fat for Insurance
Employees at the drugstores who don't report will face increased rates.
What would you do if you went in to work one day and your employer told you that you needed to report your weight, body fat and glucose levels or your insurance costs would jump by $600 a year?
CVS employees are dealing with that very issue right now, according to the Boston Herald.
"This is an incredibly coercive and invasive thing to ask employees to do,” Patient Privacy Rights founder Dr. Deborah Peel told the Herald, adding that mounting health care costs have made these policies increasingly common.
According to the Herald's report, CVS Caremark employs 200,000 workers and all of them, including those at the Holliston location, are being required to report their metrics by May 1.
The company has dubbed the request “a health screening and wellness review so that colleagues know their key health metrics in order to take action to improve their numbers, if necessary.”
The closest CVS store is located on Turnpike Avenue in Portsmouth.
What do you think about this requirement? Tell us in the comment section below!
Former Ports resident
12:26 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013
I'm all for it! Now the fatties can take some responsibility for bossting up health care premiums!
Craig Michaels
1:41 pm on Friday, March 22, 2013
Its purpose is most likely for dead peasants insurance policies that they like many other big companies take out on their employees. Then when you die, they collect hugh premiums.
TAMORI
9:29 am on Saturday, March 23, 2013
Beg deal!!! I worked more than twenty years for an organization that I had to make weigh-in, and pass a physical fitness test twice annually. I got a nice pension when I retired.