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# Integrated Benefits Institute
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**Type:** Nonprofit research organization
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**Focus:** Employer health and productivity research
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**Funding:** Employers and benefits industry
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**Data source:** Employer benefits claims (commercially-insured workers)
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## Overview
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Integrated Benefits Institute (IBI) conducts research on health-related productivity costs to US employers. Their data is drawn from employer benefits claims, representing commercially-insured workers who typically have better health outcomes than uninsured or Medicaid populations.
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## Key Research
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- **2025:** Poor health costs US employers $575 billion/year in productivity losses
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- **Chronic condition prevalence:** 78% of US employees have at least one chronic condition (2025), up from 71% (2021)
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- **Lost productivity:** 1.5 billion days annually, including 540 million workdays from chronic conditions
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- **Cost breakdown:** $225.8B/year absenteeism (CDC), remainder presenteeism
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## Timeline
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- **2025-01-01** — Published updated employer productivity loss figure: $575B/year, up from previous $530B estimate
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- **2025-01-01** — Reported 78% chronic condition prevalence among US employees, 7 percentage point increase since 2021 |