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Managed Care February 2007 Lola Butcher	Biggest Health Care Purchasers Bullish on Care Management Businesses see care management, not cost shifting, as the most important trend in health coverage.
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 March 2008 Frank Diamond	Humana's Multi-Year Pacts Could Be Attractive to Customers Health plan offers different cost guarantees in its No Worry and SmartResults consumer-directed programs
BusinessWeek July 12, 2004 Dean Foust	Vital Signs At Humana Its CEO has revived the insurer, but can he sell a bold health plan to clients?
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 April 2004 MargaretAnn Cross	Medical Directors Find Themselves Working More Closely With Payers As large companies become more demanding of health plans, clinical executives are increasingly being relied on to provide advice and expertise.
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.
Managed Care September 2003 MargaretAnn Cross	Consumer-Directed Health Care: Too Good To Be True? People talk about it as the sure way to control costs and give consumers the choice they seem to want. Are we being realistic?
Managed Care August 2004	Humana Thinks Premium Cap Sets Plan Apart The health plan hopes to gain a competitive edge by joining two important components of today's insurance -- consumer-directed health plans and information technology -- with a rare cap on premium hikes.
Managed Care August 2007 Lola Butcher	What Attracts Workers to Consumer-Directed Plans? High-deductible insurance hasn't been a big draw, but plan sponsors have found a few ways to make it attractive.
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 Michael Levin-Epstein	Federal and State Governments Pressed to Give Tax Breaks For Wellness Initiatives Legislators are being urged to reward companies that provide programs for their workers, but success has been mixed
Managed Care February 2008 Lola Butcher	Wellness Programs: No Longer Just an Add-On In the face of stiff competition from a growing category of dedicated wellness companies, major health plans are launching sophisticated, ambitious programs to slake employers' thirst for these products
Managed Care February 2008 Frank Diamond	You Will Live Healthily! Employers want to do everything within the law to make workers change their lifestyles, and they expect health plans to help
Managed Care May 2007 Lola Butcher	Massive Databases Under Construction Insurers and employers are busily compiling databases to control costs and improve care, but physicians are laying claim to the data.
Managed Care December 2002 Patrick Mullen	Placing Faith in Technology To Improve Members' Choices Not many companies' organizational charts list a 'chief innovation officer.' At Humana, it brings visibility to a high-tech strategy for reducing care fragmentation.
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.
IndustryWeek January 1, 2008	The Win-Win of Wellness in the Workplace Even the simplest of programs offer clear benefits for companies and their employees.
Managed Care April 2000	Humana Readies New Online Assessment Tool Turning to the Internet to help identify its high-risk members and monitor their care, Humana has embraced a Rhode Island company's new personal-health assessment tool...
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Managed Care August 2004 MargaretAnn Cross	Employers Take the Lead In Drug Benefit Design Companies test new approaches to funding the pharmacy benefit with the goal of saving money overall.
Managed Care September 2001 Michael D. Dalzell	Where Will Health Plans Find The Next Generation of Savings? The industry realizes that it needs to get creative -- or perish, at least in the form it has taken. Employers won't stand long for double-digit premium hikes. With much of the fat already wrung out of care delivery, where will health plans find that next generation of cost savings?
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.
Job Journal January 13, 2008 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros: Wellness Benefits Bottom Line Employers are finally acting like healthy workers are good for business.
Job Journal October 12, 2008 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros: Benefits a Big Deal at Small Firms When it comes to perks, smaller employers need to think big.
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.
Managed Care June 2007	Employers Gear up for More Employee Health Management Employers have a clear interest in expanding initiatives to help workers manage their personal health effectively, according to a survey.
Insurance & Technology December 13, 2006	Contracts Humana selected Dallas-based health savings account service provider First Horizon Msaver to administer HSAs... Cincinnati-based Great American Financial will use St. Paul-based Lawson's Performance Management technology... etc.
CIO June 15, 2002 Scott Berinato	CIOs at the Heart of Health-Care Change For good or ill, CIOs are reshaping the way health care is delivered in America. Learn why CIOs are involved in fixing health care, find out how technology is helping to replace managed care with new kinds of insurance, and understand the ethical dilemmas these CIOs must deal with.
IndustryWeek September 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz	A Healthy Approach to Going Lean Corporate wellness programs encourage employees to manage their health.
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.
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.
Insurance & Technology August 9, 2010 Nathan Golia	Humana, Athenahealth Partner to Spur EHR Adoption The health insurer joins a growing list of peers providing financial or other incentives to providers to adopt electronic health records.
The Motley Fool November 2, 2004 Richard Gibbons	Humana Hummin' Despite Hurdles The health-care benefits company showed signs of life when it bounced 6% on news that third-quarter earnings had beaten estimates by 18% and it was raising earnings guidance.
Investment Advisor September 2010 Angela Herbers	The Fast Track: The Six Most Common Problems with Employees Owner advisors, read this column, then give it to your employees.
The Motley Fool September 6, 2011 Dan Caplinger	Make Your Job Work Harder for You You need to make the most of what employee benefits your employer gives you.
Insurance & Technology November 1, 2006 Phil Britt	Hearing the Call To improve responsiveness, Humana Military Healthcare Services added AnswerCenter, a Web-based common knowledge base application from Spanlink Communications, a provider of customer interaction solutions.
BusinessWeek January 30, 2006 Howard Gleckman	Plan A: Hook Them With Part D Humana's low-cost Medicare drug plan is a way to lure seniors into its managed care.
The Motley Fool August 4, 2009 Brian Orelli	Shockingly Cheap and Destined to Stay That Way? Humana has a nice quarter, but it's priced based on the uncertain future.
Insurance & Technology April 2, 2008 Nathan Conz	Insurers Seek Balance in Web 2.0 Projects Insurers including Humana and Esurance seek Web 2.0 success by soliciting user-generated content and leveraging social networking concepts in ways that are non-intrusive to their customers.
Insurance & Technology June 28, 2010 Nathan Golia	Insurers Launch Games to Engage Consumers on iPhone Humana and MassMutual both released iPhone games last week to build affinity for their brands among consumers.
Managed Care April 2006 Tony Berberabe	Insurers Rely on Providers To Screen for Depression With access only to claims data, health plans strive to promote the importance of depression screening to their providers.
Managed Care October 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Just How Will CDHC Change Your Job? Medical directors are charged with many of the tasks that could help members make the most of consumer-directed health plans.
Managed Care August 2002 Frank Diamond	Moving Consumers to the Head of the Class Creating a customer base that's aware of the link between cost and services has become the next big challenge in managed care. It's a daunting task.
Managed Care November 2005	Headlines On Deadline ... Health insurance costs only increase by 9.2 percent this year....Humana agrees to pay $40 million in settlement... Department of Health and Human Services fails to report several medical malpractice claims...
Managed Care September 2004 John Carroll	Managed Care at the Crossroads As rising costs drive CEOs' collective blood pressure off the charts, a group of experts considers whether managed care has reached another watershed -- and whether the industry can reinvent itself yet again.
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