Smaller Employers Adopting Disease Management.

A recent survey finds nearly 42 percent of corporations with 200 or fewer staff members have some sort of disease management program.

That’s a enormous increase from four years ago, when just 28% 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 medical plan hope to add one by 2011.

The highest-demand disease management (DM) programs are for diabetes, asthma and heart disease.

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