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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.
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2006	Sales and Marketing: Where the Buck Stops Pharma's ultimate customer is the employer - the guy who pays the health plan's bill. Here's what he wants to know about drugs.
Managed Care October 2001 Frank Diamond	Indirect Costs: Asking plans to keep employees on the job Employers in revolt against fast-rising premiums could ask HMOs to pay more attention to time-loss management. NCQA's interest may encourage this approach...
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...
Managed Care February 2001 Frank Diamond	Defined Contribution: Why It Won't Happen Any Time Soon There's a difference between plausibility and wishful thinking that many who predict the advent of this system fail to recognize. Risk adjusting, adverse selection, and the tax code present hurdles...
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 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 September 2003 Martin Sipkoff	This Isn't the First Attempt To Shift Cost to Employees Companies are decreasing their share of medical insurance premiums. It remains to be seen how this will affect workers' health status.
Managed Care April 2000	NCQA To Put Report Cards On the Web The National Committee for Quality Assurance hopes to elevate the degree to which quality of care factors into people's choice of health plans. NCQA is placing health plan report cards on its web site...
Managed Care November 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Health Plans by Design, Not by Default Fortune 500 employers are ready to shed old benefit models for "managed consumerism".
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...
Managed Care October 2005 Martin Sipkoff	The Lure of Tax Reform Politicians on both sides of the aisle are considering tax reforms as a way of fixing the health care system. What might it mean for health plans?
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 November 1999 Steve Wetzell	To Cure Risk Aversion, Employers Eye Risk Adjustment ...The more employers can get consumers involved in the game, the more providers will become directly accountable to consumers. Under traditional managed care, employers -- without realizing it -- have put themselves in the middle of the relationship between physicians and their patients...
The Motley Fool June 14, 2011 Morgan Housel	Why It's Worse Than the Great Depression and You Haven't Been Given a Raise Real wage growth over the past decade hasn't just been below average. It was actually slower than during the Great Depression decade of 1929-1939.
Managed Care August 2007 Frank Diamond	Employers Roll Up Their Sleeves No longer passive, companies are working in a variety of ways to improve employees' care. Preventive programs cost money up front, but can cut overall treatment costs to insurers by 30 percent or more, yet few insurers pay for preventive care.
Inc. April 2005 Jennifer Gill	Cut Your Health Care Costs Now Nine ways to slash your small firm's insurance costs, from health savings accounts to getting tough with your broker to joining purchasing pools.
Managed Care October 2007	Headlines On Deadline... Health insurance premiums rose an average of 6.1% in 2007... Employers are backing the development of Web-based health records... Commercial health plans posted improvements in 30 of 44 quality of care measures...
Financial Planning July 1, 2010 Jeanne Lee	The Sky Is Not Falling Small business clients have been hard-hit by increased healthcare expenditures over the past 10 years, so it's not surprising that the healthcare reform bill has many of them anxious and confused.
Bank Systems & Technology August 2, 2005 Ivan Schneider	MasterCard Seeks Opportunity In T&E Management The cost-controlling requirements of the federal government have helped MasterCard to refine its offerings for the broader travel and expense (T&E) marketplace.
CFO June 1, 2007 Joseph McCafferty	A Little Less Shifty Employers are passing on less of the health-care burden to workers.
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.
BusinessWeek October 13, 2003 Kimberly Weisul	Throwing a Line to Uninsured Workers Across the country, heads of small businesses rank the cost and availability of health insurance as the biggest problem facing their businesses. Dozens of state and local governments are trying to help.
InternetNews April 12, 2004 Jim Wagner	Wireless Costs Slipping through the Cracks A report published by the analyst firm Yankee Group shows a decentralized telecom policy in the business world is significantly inflating 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.
Job Journal August 31, 2003 James Challenger	More Jobseekers Thinking Big The packages of perks at big companies can't be matched by most small firms.
Managed Care May 2003	High Profits Seen for HMOs Through 2003 The good times will go on for most health plans in terms of earnings through the rest of this year, experts believe. That's because rate hikes are "in excess of medical trends," Rob Mains, an analyst with Advest, tells Business Insurance.
Managed Care January 2001	Private Proposals Aim To Reduce Lack of Coverage Two new proposals to solve the conundrum of Americans without health coverage would build on the country's existing health system...
Managed Care March 2001 John A. Marcille	Should That Apple a Day Be Red, Green, or Golden? So if everyone's at least in agreement that preventing illness should be a common goal, why is a mutual understanding of "prevention" so elusive?
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
Managed Care November 2002 Frank Diamond	Companies Leaning on Workers in Battle Against Pharmacy Costs A new urgency means that tiered formularies and higher copayments will become even more widespread, a recent survey indicates.
Job Journal December 16, 2007 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros: Obesity's Heavy Burden Eying bottom line, employers start to tally costs of overweight workers.
Managed Care March 2007	NCQA Toughens Evaluation of PPOs Preferred provider organizations will be evaluated on the same set of standards, clinical measures, and patient experience ratings that the NCQA uses to evaluate HMOs and POS plans.
Managed Care November 2006	Employers Focus On Just Who Should Be Covered Here are two interesting recent moves by employers to manage health benefits.
HBS Working Knowledge July 16, 2008 Porter et al.	What Should Employers do About Health Care? Companies that cut health care costs without improving the overall value of care eventually pay a price in terms of employee absenteeism and chronic ailments.
BusinessWeek July 12, 2004 Howard Gleckman	Providing For Your Own Care Long-term care insurance is getting even more pricey, so shop carefully.
Managed Care March 2004 John A. Marcille	With Updating, Old Ways Often Prove To Be Worthwhile The quality of life in America is better than most, so why are we so unhappy? We strive to make things better, case in point, health care networks.
Entrepreneur June 2006 Mark Henricks	What's Up, Doc? Inflated health insurance prices are putting the squeeze on your budget, but are consumer-directed plans the way to go?
Managed Care July 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Efforts To Cover the Uninsured An Opportunity for Health Plans Employers and state governments are getting together to design imaginative insurance programs to cover low-pay workers.
IndustryWeek October 1, 2007 Traci Purdum	Green Purchasing Has Some Companies Seeing Red Cost of implementing green purchasing practices is holding some companies back.
Inc. September 2003 Alison Stein Wellner	A Small Price to Pay Long-term care coverage makes growing old a little bit easier.
Managed Care August 2005	NCQA Compares Plans On Chronic Disease The National Committee for Quality Assurance plans to offer a snapshot based on its well-known HEDIS report that it hopes will let employers and workers get a quick, but comprehensive, view of how health plans handle four chronic diseases.
Entrepreneur September 2004 Chris Penttila	Domestic Dispute As employers respond to the marketplace, the debate over benefits for same-sex couples heats up.
Managed Care July 2003 MargaretAnn Cross	Money Pit: Is Accreditation Always Worth the Cost? Some plans swear by the benefits of obtaining an "excellent." Others say that customers care much more about cost.
Managed Care September 2007	NCQA Standards Focus on PPO Performance Preferred provider organizations that are seeking National Committee for Quality Assurance accreditation will now be required to report clinical quality results through HEDIS.