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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 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 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 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...
IndustryWeek September 22, 2010	The Return of the Raise Interest in retaining top talent drives growth.
Managed Care November 2000	Expect Premium Hikes To Top 10 Percent in '01 Health plan premium increases are again cracking double digits, according to two important gauges of benefit costs...
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 November 2006	Managed Care Outlook Health benefit costs continue to outpace CPI.
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
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 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 May 2000	Headlines On Deadline... Insurance briefs
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 January 2001	When pressure's on, raises get better In this tight labor market, most large companies are offering competitive salaries to recruit top talent, while making pay raises attractive enough to retain good employees who are knowledgeable about the organization. This is, perhaps, doubly true for managed care organizations...
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 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 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?
IndustryWeek August 18, 2010	Health Care Costs in 2011 A recent survey indicates a majority of companies plant to improve wellness programs in 2011.
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 December 2003	Pay-or-Play Ideas Make Employers Help Uninsured Employers would have to "pay or play" in some proposals for how to boost coverage for the uninsured.
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 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.
Job Journal July 24, 2005 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros: Ailing Healthcare Coverage As healthcare costs increase, a survey by Yankelovich finds more workers rate healthcare coverage as their preferred employee benefit.
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."
Inc. September 2003 Alison Stein Wellner	A Small Price to Pay Long-term care coverage makes growing old a little bit easier.
CFO September 1, 2010 Alix Stuart	Anticipating the Pain of Reform Six months after the passage of health-care reform, companies are faced with hard choices when it comes to employee benefits.
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 November 2006	Employers Focus On Just Who Should Be Covered Here are two interesting recent moves by employers to manage health benefits.
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.
Managed Care February 2008	Employer-Backed Insurance Gets Nonpartisan Nod The majority of Americans believe that universal coverage costs should be shared by individuals, employers, and the government.
Managed Care October 2002	Survey: '90s Boom Didn't Increase Number of Covered Employees You would think that the roaring economy and tight labor market in the 1990s would have meant a significant increase in the number of people with employer-sponsored health insurance. But you would be wrong, according to a report by the Center for Studying Health System Change.
Entrepreneur October 2001 Mark Henricks	Sickening, Isn't It? As providers jack up health-care costs, there are options that won't leave your employees out in the cold and flu season...
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 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Health Plans by Design, Not by Default Fortune 500 employers are ready to shed old benefit models for "managed consumerism".
CFO February 1, 2003 Joseph McCafferty	Bitter Medicine Small companies will be forced to make tough decisions if they are to survive another round of health-care cost increases.
CFO June 1, 2007 Joseph McCafferty	A Little Less Shifty Employers are passing on less of the health-care burden to workers.
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 March 2002 John A. Marcille	Change Is To Be Expected, But Not Always Welcomed The biggest threat to managed care as now practiced may be this new scheme, defined contribution. Even more than the Patients' Bill of Rights, this is a movement that could shake the industry...
Entrepreneur September 2005 Jacquelyn Lynn	Thinking Ahead As Americans age, long-term care insurance may prove one of the most important insurance products on the market, and this coverage can offer advantages to both employers and employee
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 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 January 2007 John Carroll	Erosion of Employer-Sponsored Health Care: Bad for Everyone More companies are offering less coverage - or none at all. Even those that offer coverage find that more of their workers choose not to sign up.
Knowledge@Wharton	In Battle to Lower Employers' Health Care Costs, Will Employees Become `General Contractors'? Following the backlash against managed care and faced with a sharp rise in health care costs this year, employers are searching for a new cure to spiraling health care premiums...
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 May 2005 John Carroll	Evaporation of Retiree Benefits May Be Health Plan Opportunity With big companies steadily reducing coverage for retirees, plans need to devise products for this needy population.
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.
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Managed Care February 2002	Small Employers Want To Sidestep Giving Benefits The recession and higher medical costs are causing small employers to take a hard look at their sponsorship of health benefits...
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