Employer coverage of clinical preventive services in the United States.

Purpose: To characterize employers' coverage of clinical preventive services.

Design: Mercer Human Resource Consulting Inc. included questions on clinical preventive services as part of its National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans, 2001.

Recent tax changes may assist treatment of obesity.

The U.S. Surgeon General's Call to Action on Overweight and Obesity 2001 proposes inclusion of health care providers in prevention efforts and suggests classification of obesity as a disease category for reimbursement coding.