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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
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
May 2001
Bob Carlson |
Real Story in CalPERS Talks Lies Beyond the Headlines True, the rest of the country doesn't always follow California's lead. But you'd probably be right if you viewed the California Public Employees' Retirement System's April deal with eight HMOs as an omen... |
Managed Care
March 2002 |
6 Large California Plans Link Doc Bonuses, Quality In what's being touted as an unprecedented effort, doctors and hospitals in California will be rewarded with bonuses of at least 5 percent for quality under a common set of standards adopted by six HMOs... |
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. |
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. |
Managed Care
March 2004 |
Hospitals Retain Bargaining Edge In Contract Talks Contract negotiations between health plans and providers, primarily hospitals, were mild in 2002 and 2003, compared to how they played out in 2000 and 2001. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
June 27, 2006
Michael Hickins |
Hospital, HMO Ratings 'Open' to Public New York State adopts online scorecards allowing employers and consumers to review local hospitals and HMOs. |
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. |
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
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... |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
On Wall Street
September 1, 2009 |
Five Questions with Bill McGrew A short interview with Bill McGrew, who runs the Focus List at CalPERS, the California Public Employees' Retirement System. |
Managed Care
May 2000 |
Headlines On Deadline... Insurance briefs |
Managed Care
December 2006
MargaretAnn Cross |
Confronting The Medicare Cost Shift Plans are increasingly concerned about the degree to which providers overcharge them to make up for losses from government programs. |
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 |
Managed Care
October 2003
Ed Silverman |
Tough Negotiations in Store Between Plans and Hospitals Fallout from the Medicare outlier-payment scandal is likely to force hospitals to try to replace that revenue. Health plans, prepare to negotiate! |
Job Journal
August 31, 2003
Julia Hollister |
Careers in Finance Talented investment counselors are finding their stock on the rise. |
Managed Care
February 2001 |
Biz Group Warns Hospitals To Move Quickly on Quality Value-based purchasing, a concept that generates lofty discussion but is not always practiced by employers, took a leap forward with the endorsement of a bloc of some of the nation's largest companies... |
Managed Care
June 2004 |
Providers Retain Upper Hand Over Health Plans Hospitals in recent years have been successful in getting higher rates, decreasing their exposure to risk and obtaining other advantageous contract provisions from health plans, according to a new study. |
Managed Care
April 2006
Patrick Mullen |
A Conversation with Paul Fronstin, PhD: Current Crop of Consumer-Directed Plans More 'Lite' Than 'Heavy' Paul Fronstin, a senior research associate at the Employee Benefit Research Institute, speaks about Medicare, health benefit trends, and managed care. |
The Motley Fool
April 13, 2004
Lita Epstein |
CalPERS Aims at Coca-Cola Adding to its Dasani woes and the search for a CEO, the company faces a challenge to its board. |
U.S. Banker
August 2003
Lee Conrad |
How Much is Too Much? Calpers, The market-moving pension fund covering California's government workers, is turning up the heat on companies that overpay the suits. And even though it's mum on possible suspects, Citigroup is singled out by other industry watchdogs for its flagrant use of commas and zeros on payday. |
BusinessWeek
October 18, 2004
Christopher Palmeri |
Pretty Liberal With The Cash In the past three years, the California Public Employees' Retirement System has committed up to $760 million to Burkle for investments to help underserved segments of society while still making money for the retirement fund. |
The Motley Fool
March 3, 2004
D. Gardner & T. Gardner |
Time for Eisner to Go? David and Tom Gardner talk about the Disney CEO's dismal doings. |
The Motley Fool
February 26, 2004
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Disney Braces for Battle CalPERS takes another California company to task. "We have lost complete confidence in Mr. Eisner's strategic vision and leadership in creating shareholder value in the company," the pension said in a biting press release. |
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
April 2007 |
Consumers Upset By High Cost of Administration When it comes to health care administrations, there is a wide gap between what executives of hospitals and insurance companies believe it costs and what consumers believe. |
National Real Estate Investor
February 1, 2005
Nicholas Yulico |
Reversing Course, Institutional Investors Assume More Risk Institutions and pension funds are increasingly eyeing non-traditional real estate investments, such as senior housing communities and even distressed office buildings. |
