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- The Weight's Over: Should Fat People Pay More for Health Insurance?
- In a previous blog, we questioned whether or not employers should encourage healthy lifestyles to increase productivity. If discounted gym memberships and healthy vending machine alternatives -- no doubt, placed next to Snickers bars -- don't do the trick, new regulations may. Companies can now charge unhealthy overweight...
- Blog posts 2007-09-13
- Five Star Quality Care Inc. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions. Our first question comes from Kevin Ellich – RBC Capital Markets. Kevin Ellich – RBC Capital Markets Fran, maybe I can start with you. Looking at the cash flow and the CapEx and what you expect to recover, would it be safe to...
- Earnings calls 2009-11-02
- HCF Lifts Membership By 20%
- Australia's third largest private health insurer HCF says annual revenue soared by 20 per cent in 2008/09, on the back of strong membership growth.The fund said it had defied tough economic conditions in the private health insurance market during the last financial year, which were driven by the global...
- News items 2009-11-26
- Opting Out Of Health Insurance
- The article details various policy measures, which could be taken by the Human Resource Department for keeping themselves out of insuring employees against Health Hazards. The various cases studies discuss different measures that could be taken in cases where employees are not willing to take the insurance policies.
- Case studies 2002-01-06
- Physicians Service Health Insurance
- Kitsap Physicians Service KPS provides information on health care plans offered by the company. KPS wanted to provide an automated on-line insurance rate quote feature for individuals and small employee groups of less than 50 employees. The goal of the new idea would be to streamline and standardize quoting efforts...
- Case studies 2003-01-01
- Predictive Probabilities In Employee Drug Testing
- When examining the risks of drug abuse, often the most compelling statistics relate to accidents, safety, and health. For example, according to the Federal Railroad Administration, errors attributed to substance-impaired employees caused 34 fatalities and 66 injuries in 48 separate incidents between 1975 and 1983. In addition to these direct...
- Case studies 1998-01-01
- A Zero-Injury Workplace
- A mid-sized insurance firm had a major fire in one of its prime real estate properties. The construction firm hired to rebuild the building advised the company that according to their actuality forecasts, one person would die during the reconstruction. First defined an injury as any job-related health threat that...
- Case studies
- Case study: Health Insurance
- An effort to bring the managed care industry to its knees failed last year when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld the dismissal of a class-action lawsuit against Aetna, unanimously ruling that plaintiffs failed to allege actual injury to business or property. Aetna, the first of...
- Case studies 2003-01-01
- Case Study: MEGA Life and Health Insurance Co.
- The MEGA Life and Health Insurance a holding company providing insurance primarily health to niche consumer and institutional markets. In 2000, the 500,000 people insured by MEGA submitted more than two million claims, resulting in $300 million in paid benefits. MEGA turned to Healthaxis, a leading provider of technology solutions...
- Case studies 2003-01-01
- CA Workplace Health Coverage Law
- A new sweeping California law requiring companies to either offer employee health coverage or contributes to statewide insurance. The law would make California the first state in the three decades since Congress passed a law preventing states from regulating employee health benefits ERISA to compel to pay for medical insurance...
- Case studies 2003-01-01
- Young Workers Rejecting Health Insurance
- In Alaska, as everywhere else, small businesses struggle to provide health insurance. But the Anchorage Daily News reports that employers there who manage to provide it are getting a surprising response from many of their young employees: No thanks. These workers have two reasons for rejecting insurance. Read the article...
- White papers 2002-06-05
- New Health Insurance Plan Offers Affordable Rates To Miami Valley
- This aticle is about a new health insurance plan that will offer a comprehensive network of physicians and hospitals, and flexible benefit designs at competitive pricing – available only to businesses in the eight-county Miami Valley region – will be introduced Aug. 1. Medical Mutual's Greater Miami Valley Health Plan...
- White papers 2003-07-08
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- The article explains some of the key benefits of outsourcing stem from the aggregation of customer demand for well-defined services. In May 2002, SAIC, based in San Diego, California, offered a "new model" for outsourcing: the services aggregator model. Under this paradigm, the services provider would not only offer managed...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Pursuing Perfection in Healthcare With Six Sigma
- "This paper is intended to help executives and other professionals in healthcare tap into the power of Six Sigma.It contains a brief overview of Six Sigma, a discussion on the impact and dynamics of problems facing health care organizations and the results obtainable through Six Sigma implementation. The fundamental objective...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Six Sigma: Using Statistics to Reduce Process Variability and Costs in Radiology
- "Six Sigma was seen as having the potential to drive quality to new heights and sharpen the competitive edge for both the radiology department and the system as a whole. Like most providers, CHC has had some form of quality initiative in place for years. The difference is that Six...
- White papers 2000-11-01
- A Large Life and Health Insurance TPA
- A large, life and health insurance TPA was under significant pressure to reduce expenses and position itself for growth. The company assigned the Nolan consultant responsibility for one of the Six Sigma projects in new business processing. The company believed in the Six Sigma approach and wanted to continue the...
- Case studies 2003-01-01
- ISO 9000 Guidelines For Health Care Sector
- The document provides a framework for the design and improvement of process-based quality management systems by health care organizations. The guidelines are voluntary and they are not intended for certification or accreditation.
- White papers 2001-12-01
- Six Sigma in Healthcare
- As the healthcare industry grapples with financial pressures, limited resources, changing regulations, personnel shortages, the public's increased attention to quality of care, and other challenges, many organizations have found hope from an unexpected source Six Sigma. This article offer an overview of Six Sigma, also referred to as Process Excellence,...
- White papers 2002-11-01
- A Prescription for Company Health
- The recent spate of corporate disasters almost defies understanding. Some of the largest and most respected companies in the country have imploded or have paid a huge penalty in the markets and the courts. Most of these companies are very actively traded and closely watched by rating agencies and securities...
- White papers 2002-07-01
- Six Sigma : A Powerful Strategy for Healthcare Providers
- In todays scenario the concept of Six Sigma has emerged as a powerful strategy for healthcare Providers. Four forces are converging to make the delivery of healthcare in the years to come more difficult than it has ever been: aging baby boomers, scarce financing, staffing shortages and litigation mania. These...
- White papers 2001-01-01
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