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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 December 2002 MargaretAnn Cross	Advisory Boards Create Company-Plan Cooperation Very effective if used properly, these panels are not yet widespread. However, that could change as industrial customers demand more input.
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 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.
Insurance & Technology June 3, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell	MetLife Launches Open Enrollment Portal for Employers and Brokers Benefits portal includes tools and resources to help employers control costs and craft effective benefits communication.
Managed Care May 2003 Martin Sipkoff	Working Together on the Medical Side Partly because of employers' demands, health plans are starting to cooperate in ways that improve care.
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".
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.
Managed Care July 2007	ERISA Proposes Using TPAs A coalition of the country's largest employers said health care coverage and retirement plans for American workers should be delivered by third-party administrators such as banks, investment companies, and insurers.
Managed Care March 2004 MargaretAnn Cross	Consumer-Directed Plans Begin Measuring Patient Satisfaction Initial results are promising. Employees turn toward preventive medicine and away from expensive drug therapies.
Managed Care August 2006 Cross & Sipkoff	Although Employers Need Depression Programs, They May Not Know It Yet Research says the hidden cost of untreated depression far outweighs the cost of treatment. Plans need to get this information to purchasers.
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 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.
Entrepreneur December 2005 Jane Easter Bahls	What Did I Say? Your problem employee has finally left. But shortly after his departure, you receive a call for a reference. Can you give an honest assessment?
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.
Managed Care December 2003 MargaretAnn Cross	'What Can You Do To Help Control Costs?' Employers are beginning to tap into the groundswell of employee interest in reducing premiums.
Managed Care July 2005 Stanley Hochberg	Insurers Can No Longer Afford Not To Share Some Data Pay-for-performance programs imply improved patient care, but are frustrated by fragmented data collection and reporting systems.
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 July 2006 Martin Sipkoff	Employers' Stock in Wellness Rises With No End in Sight Formerly, insurers used to devise new products and processes to attract purchasers. Now more and more employers are going to the plans and insisting on preventive care.
Entrepreneur May 2003 Mark Henricks	Take Your Pick Want to keep health-care costs low and employees happy in today's economy? It's still a good idea to look into cafeteria-style flexible plans.
Managed Care February 2005 Tony Berberabe	Information: It's Better When You Share Today's version of a community health information network, the regional health information organization, is a collaborative of health plans, health care providers, and hospitals in a given geographic area that collects patient information stored on a secure Web site.
The Motley Fool March 7, 2008 Brian Orelli	Insurers' Tarnished Reputations Shine Find out which ones rank lowest and why it doesn't matter.
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.
Entrepreneur May 2005 Chris Penttila	Passing the Buck If you're asking employees to manage their own benefits, you could be asking for trouble.
Fast Company Jared Lindzon	Why One-Size-Fits-All Health Initiatives Don't Work While most American companies continue to pursue one-size-fits-all corporate wellness engagements, some have already begun implementing a more personalized approach.
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 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 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 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 October 2004 MargaretAnn Cross	More Plans Discover Value of Health Risk Assessments The Health Risk Assessment is not a new tool, but it is getting new respect. Often prodded by employers, health plans are increasingly identifying at-risk populations.
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.
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CFO February 1, 2007 Karen M. Kroll	Pin the Tail on the Doctor A dearth of information leaves health-care consumers in the dark. As health-care information becomes more accessible, will employees use it to purchase health-care services more intelligently?
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 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 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...
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Managed Care June 2004 MargaretAnn Cross	CDC Begins To Provide Resources for Workplace Wellness Programs As employers become more comfortable with the idea that prevention pays, health plans may find their scope of services widening.
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 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 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.
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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.
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