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Managed Care October 2004	Kaiser Seen as Biggest Earner as HMO Profits Soared in 2003 The good times rolled on for the nation's HMOs in 2003. The industry nearly doubled its profits, earning $10.2 billion, an 86 percent increase from the $5.5 billion it earned in 2002.
Managed Care October 2000	Large HMOs Do Well While Small Ones Slide Weiss Ratings reports that the nation's HMOs lost a collective $187 million during 1999, despite the positive performance of most of the country's largest managed care organizations...
Managed Care September 2005	HMO Profits up, But at a Much Slower Rate Overall, the HMOs' profits increased 10.7 percent in 2004, according to data collected from 515 managed care organizations.
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 February 2002	Executive bonuses: Health care takes care of its own If health care bonus packages are any indication, then the industry itself would seem to be more immune to the effects of the economy than most other businesses...
Managed Care July 2005	Fear Called Primary Factor In How Coverage Is Chosen Fear and insecurity play a huge role in how people make decisions about health coverage, according to a study by Towers Perrin.
Managed Care November 2006	Managed Care Outlook Health benefit costs continue to outpace CPI.
Managed Care November 2003	Malpractice protection efforts seem to come up short Medical malpractice insurance premiums continue to rise, even as some states place caps on non-economic damages, according to a survey by Weiss Ratings.
BusinessWeek October 7, 2009 Catherine Arnst	Health Costs: Steeper Still Workers will bear a greater share of soaring premiums in 2010, but employers take a hit, too.
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 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...
Job Journal July 11, 2004 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros: Workers Want Straight Talk Spooked by the surge in corporate accounting scandalsm, wary workers are looking for more candor from their employers.
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 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.
IndustryWeek December 1, 2007 Jonathan Katz	Rules of Engagement Plants with most successful continuous improvement programs have workforces that are highly active in contributing to the company's cost-savings efforts.
InternetNews January 8, 2004 Robyn Greenspan	To Tell The Truth Even though employees agree they are prepared to hear it, less than half believe they actually get credible information from their companies.
Job Journal November 28, 2004 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros: Few Whistle While They Work Disenchantment in the workforce often revolves around things that directly affect workers, such as the self-confidence workers feel in their jobs, the importance of professional development and challenging work.
InternetNews January 9, 2007 Ed Sutherland	Retiree Data Lost in Laptop Theft Laptops are stolen from Manhattan-based Towers Perrin offices. Retirees are being urged to monitor credit records.
Managed Care October 2003 MargaretAnn Cross	Some HMOs See Dividends In Charging Deductibles This may be one way to regain profitability, though getting permission from government regulators may take some doing.
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 September 1999	Sagging Fortunes Cited in Departure Of Humana's CEO
Job Journal April 25, 2004 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros: No Rush to Retire Why major corporations are working hard to recruit older workers.
Managed Care May 2003 MargaretAnn Cross	Rising Costs Strike Unions As Being Cause for Unrest Many labor organizations have been isolated from inflationary realities. Can health plans and employers make them see the light?
Managed Care March 2006	Will HMOs' Robust Profits Make Good Political Fodder? Those looking for any excuse to bash HMOs, including political gain, will turn anything into a weapon, including a recent study pointing to healthy profits.
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 2005	Headlines on Deadline... More on the pay-for-performance push... The nation's HMOs operated on a slim profit margin in the first three months of 2004... Health coverage is not a factor in determining the level of care children receive in the U.S... etc.
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 August 2004	Computer Game Simulates Coverage and Outcomes Consumer-directed health care plans can work, say employers in a recent survey, if the right tactics are used to help workers manage their health and benefits better.
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...
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004	Health Care: The Patient Will Live, But... Employers and consumers will continue to get hammered by rising premiums, but health-care costs will rise a bit more slowly, which is good news for insurers.
Managed Care August 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Consumers in This Market Struggle To Keep Their HMOs Rochester, N.Y., faces rising health care costs and a growing employer interest in consumer-directed health plans. Can a managed care town hold its own?
Managed Care December 2000	While Large HMOs' Finances Improve, Small Plans Suffer Several large MCOs, including WellPoint, Cigna, United Healthcare, and Oxford, have reported strong third-quarter earnings. However, 44 percent of HMOs reported losses, a large proportion of those being plans with fewer than 100,000 members...
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".
Entrepreneur September 2002 Joshua Kurlantzick	Through the Roof Nationwide, small businesses are about to be swamped by a perfect storm of changes that should prompt drastically higher health-care costs for 2002, 2003 and beyond. How to find a way around skyrocketing health-care costs?
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....
IndustryWeek February 1, 2004 Jill Jusko	Message Disbelieved One-fifth of employees question their company's truthfulness. How to improve this employer-employee dynamic?
Managed Care November 2005 Ed Silverman	How Many More Quarters of Profits on the Way? The current underwriting cycle for health insurance is long in the tooth, but experts still see profitability ahead.
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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.
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004	Insurance: From Perfect Storm To Nearly Perfect Few catastrophes and strong investment returns are boosting profits. More consolidation is likely as players jostle for market share.
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...
Managed Care October 2000	Employer-based coverage up in strong economy Health insurance premiums rose 8.3 percent over the past year for all types of coverage, according to an annual survey of employers...
Managed Care March 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Transparency Catches Eye In Coalition's Deal With Medco A consortium of employers is paying the pharmacy benefit manager a new administration fee but taking all rebates and discounts.
Managed Care June 2002	Anthem's Bid Latest in Blues Consolidation Anthem's $4 billion purchase of Trigon Health Care would make Anthem the largest owner of Blue Cross plans.
CFO April 1, 2003 David M. Katz	Holes in the Net? Insurers' woes are mounting -- and your company's coverage may be at risk.
Registered Rep. October 8, 2002 Rick Weinberg	Brokerage Firms Continued Recommending Floundering Companies: Weiss Survey A surprising 74% of the 62 brokerage firms that follow companies that filed for bankruptcy protection between May 1 and Aug. 31 continued to recommend those companies to investors even as they were seeking protection.
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 July 2006 John Carroll	Banks Give Insurers an Offer Most of Them Cannot Refuse Managing the assets of a health savings account has banks excited, but leaving charges in the hands of members makes providers nervous.
Entrepreneur January 2005 Kimberly Olson	Share the Health What your company can do to make your employees healthier.