Smaller Corporations Adopting Disease Management.

A recent survey finds almost 42% of employers with 200 or fewer staff members have some sort of disease management (DM) program.

That’s a enormous increase from four years ago, when just 28 percent of smaller employers offered such programs.

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

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

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