There are several key areas that determine whether employees are empowered or disempowered when caring for their health that employers directly control. For so long, employers have been frustrated as they don’t think they have any control, and in many ways, that’s correct. An employer can’t control an insurance company, a doctor, or a hospital; how their employees eat, sleep, or exercise; or even a person’s genetics, but they do have an important part in the healthcare equation. There are decisions employers can make to help their employees spend less, live better, and live longer.

Holmes Murphy’s President Den Bishop and Chief Medical Dr. Scott Conard offer 5 ways in an article in D Magazine called “Expert: Controlling the Corporate Determinants of Health.”