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Managed Care February 2001	Employers more willing to pass benefit costs along Facing significant increases in health-benefit costs, employers appear less willing to bite the bullet than in the past -- and are passing many of those increases on to workers...
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Managed Care January 2006	Costs Slow Down, But Not Enough to Assuage Employers' Concern A new survey shows that health care costs for companies are increasing more slowly than in recent years.
CFO May 1, 2010 Alix Stuart	Spring Thaw More firms are planning to restore pay increases this year, at least in small amounts.
Job Journal January 16, 2005 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros: No Hike Likely in Pay Raises If you were expecting a big pay raise in 2005, brace yourself for some news you've heard before: You're probably not going to get one. If you do, surveys say it won't exceed 4 percent.
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CFO November 1, 2011 David McCann	Why Your Best Employees Want Out It's because they're stressed, a factor to which employers seem somewhat oblivious.
IndustryWeek December 14, 2011	Compensation Trends: Modest Raises, Merit Rules Manufacturers are projected to increase salaries by 2.9%, in line with employers as a whole.
Managed Care February 2006	CMO Pay Raises Averaged 9.9% in 2004-2005 Pay increases for chief medical officers have been pretty consistent from year to year.
Managed Care January 2004	Large Employers Now Use DM To Cut Their Costs Employers are adopting disease management programs in a big way to slow the pace of health care premium increases, according to a survey of 3,000 businesses.
Managed Care February 2002	Small Employers Want To Sidestep Giving Benefits The recession and higher medical costs are causing small employers to take a hard look at their sponsorship of health benefits...
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Managed Care January 2001	When pressure's on, raises get better In this tight labor market, most large companies are offering competitive salaries to recruit top talent, while making pay raises attractive enough to retain good employees who are knowledgeable about the organization. This is, perhaps, doubly true for managed care organizations...
Managed Care February 2004	Employers see cost-shifting efforts pay off In the fall of 2002, as employers were getting their first 2003 rates from the health plans, they were looking at a 14-percent increase," says Blaine Bos, one of the study's authors. "Then they took out their scalpel.... In 2003, employers took back lost ground."
Managed Care November 2006	Managed Care Outlook Health benefit costs continue to outpace CPI.
Managed Care May 2002	Small employers plan to shift increased costs to workers Small companies -- those with 3 to 24 employees -- are bracing for continuing health care cost increases, and indicate that they may have to shift more of that expense to workers
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Managed Care January 2006	Managed Care Outlook Two surveys point to growth for consumer-directed health plans.
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Managed Care December 2006	Managed Care Outlook Lowest health care cost increase since 2001 predicted for 2007.
IndustryWeek July 1, 2005 John S. McClenahen	CEO Pay: The New Rules For CEOs and other senior executives in manufacturing, performance-related bonuses are up and performance-tied long-term incentives are more common. But will they make for better management decisions? That's not yet clear.
BusinessWeek March 21, 2005 Michael J. Mandel	Now Workers Can Flex Some Muscle As labor markets tighten, employees are gaining bargaining power.
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Managed Care October 2004	Medical, Prescription Drug Cost Rates to Drop in 2005 The 2005 Segal Health Plan Cost Trend Survey predicts that increases for prescription drug coverage will decelerate in 2005, but still remain significantly above general inflation and wage increases.
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Managed Care December 2001	Specialist compensation outpaces primary care Specialists' compensation has risen steadily in recent years, according to the Medical Group Management Association...
Managed Care April 2001	Employees' tolerance of change underestimated? Health care prognosticators have lately been predicting the coming of a defined-contribution payment system in which an employer would give an employee a voucher (or other stipend) and tell him to go find and purchase his own health care benefits. But employers are unlikely to switch...
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Managed Care December 2004	Go West, Young Pharmacist The pharmacy profession continues to pay well, though where somebody practices has much to do with just how well, according to the 2004 Pharmacy Compensation Survey.
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HBS Working Knowledge April 25, 2005	Negotiating What You're Worth Should you be the first to mention money? What is your main goal in negotiating a salary raise? How do you prepare for negotiation obstacles? A negotiation expert gives tips in this article from the Harvard Management Communication Letter.
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Managed Care June 2007 Lola Butcher	Big Companies Holding Fast To Employer-Sponsored System In board rooms across the country, decisions are being made to battle, rather than run from, rising costs of health care.
IndustryWeek May 1, 2007 Jonathan Katz	Skilled Talent: By The Numbers Nearly half of U.S. manufacturers said they would have hired more staff if skilled talent were available.
Entrepreneur May 2005 Chris Penttila	Passing the Buck If you're asking employees to manage their own benefits, you could be asking for trouble.
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