CVS Employees Required to Report Weight, Body Fat for Insurance

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 Salem's two locations, are being asked to report their metrics by May 1. Those who do will not see an increase in insurance costs.

The company says the measure is  “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.”