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Managed Care
June 2003 |
CalPERS-Blue Shield 3-Year Deal Gives Disease Management Vital Role The argument that disease management could save the system money in the long run has often been met by the retort that HMOs do not have a real incentive to back such programs because of the way enrollees jump from plan to plan. A decision by CalPERS may help address that issue.   |
Managed Care
March 2001 |
To Control Costs, CalPERS Rejects All Bids for 2002 In a dramatic attempt to keep a lid on health care premiums, the California Public Employees' Retirement System threw out every bid it received from health plans competing for a chunk of its business in 2002.... |
Managed Care
July 2004 |
CalPERS Takes Tough Stand In Giving 38 Hospitals the Boot The move is expected to cut spending for the nation's third-largest purchaser of health care by $36 million in 2005, then save CalPERS about $50 million annually beginning in 2006. |
Managed Care
January 2002
Patrick Mullen |
Interview: Peter Lee The head of the Pacific Business Group on Health says the coming trend in care will be patients making informed decisions before they get sick... |
Managed Care
July 2002
Frank Diamond |
Premium Hikes: No Cause for Celebration Lost market share and further erosion of public trust will be the long-term by-products of this short-term solution. |
BusinessWeek
October 20, 2003
William C. Symonds |
Get Used To The Pain Another round of double-digit hikes in health-care costs is in the mail. |
Managed Care
September 2001
Bob Carlson |
Plan-Provider Posturing Draws State Regulators' Ire Network instability is what happens when providers and health plans part company, or threaten to. Lately, many ugly rifts have been the result of contract disputes, invariably conducted in public... |
Managed Care
June 2007 |
Growth in Average FEHBP Premium Slows The average annual growth in Federal Employees Health Benefits Program premiums declined each year from 2003 through 2007 and was generally lower than the growth for other purchasers since 2003. |
Managed Care
February 2002
Mick L. Diede & Richard Liliedahl |
Getting on the Right Track Converging forces are an economic train wreck waiting to happen. Avoiding a disaster requires an understanding of the interconnection of health care's stakeholders and the global consequences of their actions... |
Managed Care
October 2001 |
Small businesses use aggressive tactics to keep benefit costs down Small and mid-sized employers (10-999 workers) saw average health-benefit-premium increases of 9.2 percent last year. Marsh Inc. reports that these companies aggressively blunted the effects of fast-rising health care costs... |
Managed Care
August 2006 |
Slowdown in Premium Increase Expected to Continue Into 2007 The only thing falling in terms of health care costs seems to be the rate of increase of premiums - good news for employers and other purchasers. |
Managed Care
December 2000 |
Headlines on Deadline... Physician fees under Medicare will go up an average of 4.5 percent next year... The number of HMOs participating in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan dropped by 40 percent... The California Public Employees' Retirement System has seen a 40-percent increase in medical costs... etc. |
Managed Care
April 2001
Frank Diamond |
Why HMOs Could Thrive In the Economic Downturn It happened in the slump of the early 1990s, and it could very well happen again. Managed care feasts while other industries starve. People will still get sick, even in bad times... |
Managed Care
January 2001
Richard B. Dwore |
Study An Opportunity for HMOs To Use Marketing To Increase Enrollee Satisfaction... |
Managed Care
November 1999
Richard Hamer |
Goals 2000: For HMOs: Administrative Retooling For MDs: Managerial Competency ...While HMOs retrench, physicians need to become more constructive participants.... |
Managed Care
January 2002 |
To Save Money, Employers Reduce Number of Plans Offered to Workers The days of employers scrambling to provide a choice of health benefits packages to lure and keep employees may be ending. The New York Times reports that large companies across the country are sharply reducing the number of HMOs they offer... |
BusinessWeek
June 7, 2004
Louis Lavelle |
CalPERS: Too Fierce? Why the California Public Employees' Retirement System's good-governance crusade may now be doing more harm than good. |
Managed Care
November 1999
Uwe Reinhardt, Ph.D. |
Defined Contributions Will Point Employees Toward 'Health Marts' Companies will want to distance themselves from insurance entanglements, giving employees little option but to become more involved.... |
Managed Care
October 2003 |
Unions Agree To Shoulder More of Health Care Burden Union workers across the country this year are learning: This is not your father's benefits package. Contract negotiations in some of the biggest industries have ended with workers accepting that they have to bear more of the cost of health care. |
Managed Care
May 2002
Sharon Baker |
Self-Funded HMOs on the Rise Escalating premiums, changing attitudes play a role in employers' decision to take on the same thing that burned many physicians: financial risk |
BusinessWeek
November 5, 2009
Christopher Palmeri |
Is It CalPERS' Turn to Clean House? The powerful California pension fund is catching flak for not practicing what it preaches. |
BusinessWeek
November 5, 2009 |
Concerns About CalPERS A fierce advocate for corporate reform, the nation's largest pension fund takes a softer approach to in-house change. |
The Motley Fool
December 26, 2008
Selena Maranjian |
Investing Guidance From CalPERS Due to strong management, CalPERS, the California Public Employees' Retirement System, has performed considerably better than the S&P 500. |
National Real Estate Investor
March 1, 2007
Matt Hudgins |
CalPERS' New Captain From law and public policy to real estate development, Ted Eliopoulos brings a seasoned approach to the position of Senior Investment Officer, Real Estate for California Public Employees' Retirement System. |
BusinessWeek
December 13, 2004
Christopher Palmeri |
CalPERS: Getting Back To Business The new overseer of the nation's largest pension fund should refocus on corporate governance and investor returns. |
Salon.com
October 14, 1999
Dawn MacKeen |
Woe is HMO Proponents of liability legislation argue that the only way to change managed care's behavior is to threaten it with lawsuits. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Can CalPERS Eat Its Own Cooking? CalPERS may not be as different from its philosophical opponents as one might think. |
The Motley Fool
October 20, 2009
Tim Beyers |
The Daily Walk of Shame: CalPERS A foolish fund runs afoul of common sense. CalPERS gets today's dunce's cap for allowing what appears to have been a cozy, multiyear relationship between its investment staff and Al Villalobos |
