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Managed Care
April 2002 |
Where Employers, Employees Don't See Eye to Eye Hewitt Associates found key differences in employers' and employees' views of health coverage...   |
Managed Care
March 2002 |
Employees increasingly inclined to enroll for benefits via Internet Ready or not, more people are turning to the Internet to do everything from researching health conditions and medications to enrolling for benefits... |
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. |
Managed Care
July 2007 |
Employers Take Greater Interest in Managing Chronic Conditions According to a new study, employers face major decisions on how (and whether) they will offer health care plans to their employees. |
Managed Care
March 2000 |
Employers Predict Liability Expansion Bad for Coverage How employers would respond if patients were allowed to sue employer-sponsored health plans. |
Managed Care
March 2001 |
Single-source drugs get formulary preference Managed care organizations often place costly new drugs on a formulary's priciest tier, but products for which substitutes do not exist often are made available at lower copayment levels... |
Managed Care
April 2001 |
Employers easing prescription limitations? Some older medications once viewed by employers as "lifestyle" drugs when making benefit decisions are slowly gaining recognition as important components of primary care... |
Managed Care
January 2006 |
The Formulary Files The Pharmacy Benefit Management Institute reports an increase in drug margins. |
Managed Care
September 2005 |
Plans Continue to Raise Copayments Insurers and employers are passing more and more health care costs along to members. But how much have pharmacy copayments risen? |
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. |
Managed Care
July 2002 |
Survey predicts more demand for pharmacy precertification Respondents said that their customers -- employers, for the most part -- will want to see more pharmacy precertification. |
Managed Care
November 2005 |
Plans Change Tactics As Costs Keep Rising For Specialty Drugs With specialty drug costs continually increasing, CuraScript expects to see a significant shift in the percentage of plans exclusively classifying specialty drugs under the medical benefit. |
Managed Care
August 2000 |
With Cost Study, Group Argues For OTC Benefit A study by HECON Associates, a Maryland-based market research group, supports the claim that when prescription drugs become available over the counter, consumers face increased out-of-pocket costs. |
Managed Care
July 2004 |
Premium Hikes Slow As Plans Seek Members The opening murmurs in negotiations between health plans and large employers have been heard. Insurers are expected to seek an average 13.7 percent hike in premiums in 2005, according to a survey of 160 large employers. |
Managed Care
August 2005 |
Who's Responsible For Controlling Costs? When it comes to controlling rising health care costs, consumers think the responsibility rests squarely on health insurance companies' shoulders, a new survey says. |
Managed Care
July 2005 |
Premium hikes for 2006 could be lowest in 5 years There's a good chance that the increase in health care premiums will be less than 10 percent in 2006. |
Managed Care
January 2007
Martin Sipkoff |
Employers Want Plans & PBMs To Push Hard for Generics Health insurers' aggressive stand on members' use of generic drugs can attract new clients, but does it interfere with the physician-patient relationship? |
Managed Care
September 2000 |
Any way you cut it, employers appear to save if Medicare adopts drug benefit A new analysis suggests that a prescription drug benefit in Medicare would reduce employer expense for health coverage--which, in turn, could encourage more employers to offer some form of drug coverage and thus reverse this erosion... |
Managed Care
March 2000 |
Three-tier drug copayments in; closed formularies on way out? |
Managed Care
August 2007 |
Managed Care Outlook Specialty drugs increasingly used to treat chronic conditions. |
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
April 2005 |
Small HMO Takes Big Step: Decides To Launch PBM One small health insurer sees an opportunity in the recent woes that pharmacy benefits managers have experienced. |
CFO
June 1, 2007
Joseph McCafferty |
A Little Less Shifty Employers are passing on less of the health-care burden to workers. |
Managed Care
July 2003 |
Tiering Hospitals Pays Off For Calif. Blues Plan Blue Shield of California members are changing utilization patterns as a result of hospital tiering, say company officials. The company is making further changes in its Network Choice program. |
Managed Care
June 2005 |
PBMs Get Thumbs up From Satisfied Customers Pharmacy benefit managers that educate physicians on the safety and efficacy of generic drugs or provide them with generic drug samples to increase the use of generics get higher satisfaction ratings than those that don't. |
Managed Care
November 2007 |
2008 Cost Hike Should be Less Than 2007 Cost increases for health services should lessen for both employers and the health insurance plans that serve them in 2008, according to two major consulting companies. |
Managed Care
December 2006 |
Managed Care Outlook Lowest health care cost increase since 2001 predicted for 2007. |
Managed Care
August 2007
John Marcille |
Are Purchasers Now The Ones With the Vision? Employers have been doing much more to improve worker health. |
Managed Care
November 2003 |
Double-digit increases continue for health benefits Despite some slowing in the trend, employers can still expect to face the fifth straight year of double-digit increases for employee health care benefits. Towers Perrin surveyed 200 businesses with an average workforce of 7,200 to find that a 12-percent increase in costs is expected in 2004. |
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. |
Managed Care
January 2008 |
Copayment Rates Outpace Inflation Workers are definitely paying more for health benefits today than they were in 2000, especially for prescription drug copayments. |
Managed Care
June 2002 |
Calif. Blues Plan Says No Tiers For Hospitals Blue Cross of California has abandoned its plan to separate hospitals by copayment tiers. |
The Motley Fool
July 30, 2009
Brian Orelli |
A Good Business Model for Bad Times Some businesses benefit when people are hurting. It's a beautiful time to be a pharmacy benefit manager, since that business model essentially results in them making more money when their customers save money. |
Managed Care
March 2006 |
The Formulary Files Four or more tiers that are common among PDPs and MA-PD plans. |
CFO
February 22, 2005
Martha E. Mangelsdorf |
I Want a New Drug Plan Companies hoping to curb prescription-drug charges are looking at a host of new cost-control measures. |
Managed Care
November 2006 |
Employers Focus On Just Who Should Be Covered Here are two interesting recent moves by employers to manage health benefits. |
Managed Care
June 2006 |
Survey: Workers Not Guided When Choosing Care A study shows employers believe their workers can learn what they need to know to become better buyers of health services. |
Managed Care
March 2006 |
Study: No Need To Burden Consumers To Cut Drug Bill A study by Express Scripts shows that changing the prescription benefit copayments can reduce costs by encouraging more use of generic drugs. All without shifting costs to consumers. |
Managed Care
September 2005
Martin Sipkoff |
Mail Order Pharmacy Saves Money, Says PCMA, but at What Cost? The savings to consumers and employers are apparent, but are health plans left holding the bag in mail-order pharmacy? |
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... |
Fast Company
June 2013 |
Can Your First Job Predict Your Future? A slideshow revealing the first jobs that various successful people had. |
Managed Care
September 2007 |
Income Said To Influence Use of Generics An observational analysis of pharmacy claims collected from 2001 to 2003 finds that where a person lives and the socioeconomic implications of that location have a lot do with his use of generic drugs. |
Investment Advisor
September 2006 |
Retirement Planning: News & Products While the majority of employers have been slow to adopt Roth 401(k) plans, a number of employees will indeed sign up... New York Life Insurance Company recently introduced Custom Whole Life Insurance... etc. |
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
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... |
Investment Advisor
January 27, 2011
Danielle Andrus |
More Employers Offer Help Meeting Retirement Goals Automation, advice are popular ways to help employees with retirement saving. |
The Motley Fool
June 17, 2004
Seth Jayson |
Big Business vs. Big Pharma An organization of human resources executives from companies that employ 12% of the private sector U.S. workforce is working to create a prescription drug "buyer's club," with the help of HR management firm Hewitt Associates. |
Managed Care
June 2006
John Carroll |
When New Drugs Are Costly, How High to Raise Copays? As some pretty costly, yet very useful, drugs are introduced, will new formulary designs deny access to needy patients? |
Managed Care
August 2001
Steve Perlstein |
Four-Tier Approach Injects Consumerism Into Drug Benefit In tying copayments closely to the actual cost of medications, Humana takes a step toward promoting awareness of resource use... |
Managed Care
October 2007 |
The Formulary Files Retirees stop taking drugs when annual benefit runs out. |
