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• HIPAA e-Rule Surprises Small Businesses

  BNET - 2006-04-20

  Issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS, the HIPAA Security Rule mandates that companies with small health plans - defined as those with less than $5 million in group medical claims - will have to comply with 17 standards, and at least half of the 41...

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• States to Employers: Pay Up

  BNET - 2006-04-01

  Companies that don't provide health-care insurance could soon get a wake-up call. That's because an increasing number of states - 23 at recent count, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures - are considering so-called pay-or-play bills that would force employers either to provide some coverage or pay a...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Insurance, Financial Planning, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

• The Case Against Health Savings Accounts

  BNET - 2006-03-17

  Many CFOs see health savings accounts as a way to stanch the bleeding. But growing corporate interest in HSAs has been met by a growing backlash by critics and researchers. A creation of the 2003 Medicare act, HSAs do offer employers the hope of curbing their insurance expense. Under the...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Health Savings Account, Health Care, Healthcare, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software

• Another Step for Small-Biz Health Bill

  BNET - 2006-03-16

  The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee voted 11-9 in favor of a bill that would allow business and trade associations to band their members together to offer group health coverage on a national or regional basis. According to a press release by the nonprofit Foundation for Taxpayer and...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources

• Benefits in 2020: The Future of Health and Retirement Plans Presents Big Challenges for Employers and Employees

  BNET - 2006-02-15

  Employee benefits have been a lose-lose situation for years. Even as companies have asked workers to absorb a higher percentage of health-care costs; cut benefits for retirees; and shifted away from richer Defined-Benefit DB plans in favor of more-predictable 401ks, CFOs have still had to face their corporate boards and...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Health Care, Benefits, Vertical Industries, 401(k), Healthcare, Retirement Plans, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software

• Putting a Premium on Health - Employers Are Giving Workers a New Reason to Get in Shape: Cash

  BNET - 2006-02-15

  When a Wal-Mart memo describing the retailer's plans to hire and retain healthier workers was leaked to the press, it touched off a firestorm. But in truth, many companies are coming to regard a fitter workforce as one way to control health-care benefit costs. Feeling the pinch of double-digit increases...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Health Care, Worker, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Insurance, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance

• Pay-Per-View ERP

  BNET - 2006-02-01

  Over the past few years, a number of software publishers have popularized on-demand delivery of business programs. Most notably, Salesforce.com Inc. and NetSuite Inc. have developed a loyal - some would say messianic - following by offering hosted Customer-Relationship Management CRM software along with other enterprise applications. Salesforce.com's rise to...

  Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., CFO Publishing Corp., On-demand, CRM, Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Sales, Marketing, Software

• Drug Discount Peddlers

  BNET - 2005-10-28

  By gathering and automating huge amounts of pharmacy pricing data and making it widely known, Pharmacy Benefit Managers PBMs have certainly exerted a strong downward pressure on retail drug costs. And they have helped employer drug programs fit nicely into managed-care plans, bringing the co-payment features typical of health maintenance...

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• C-Suite Dialogues: How the CFO Can Collaborate to Drive Profitable Growth

  BNET - 2005-08-01

  In a climate of moderate economic expansion, intense governmental scrutiny, and uncertainty about global competition, Chief Financial Officers CFOs are seeking to execute their growth strategies by collaborating more closely with their C-level peers. Because CFOs serve their Chief Executive Officers CEOs and boards of directors as stewards of information,...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., CFO, Corporate Governance, Tools & Techniques, Collaboration, Groupware, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Enterprise Software, Software

• Help Yourself: Customer Self-Service Is Finally Catching on With Consumers

  BNET - 2005-07-06

  In the day-to-day exercise known as living, small gains in convenience are usually the advances most appreciated by humans. That simple fact may explain the corporate obsession with customer self-service. Over the years, companies have spent millions rolling out cutting-edge CRM systems, including automated phone programs and, later, Web-based systems....

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