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- Senate Bill Includes Cost Control, But Is It Enough?
- A recent Atlantic article praises the Senate health reform bill for including a variety of cost control measures. But much must be done before any of them can actually be effective. by Ken Terry
- Blog posts 2009-11-27
- Reviving Managed Care: Focused Medical Management (Finally) Pairs Quality Care With Measurable Cost Control
- This article describes about the year 2001 which was an ugly year for those trying to contain medical costs as a 12% inflation rate kept health plan executives up at night, swinging at demons. Some forecasters cannot see an end to the cost inflation. They point to a vicious whirlwind...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- Health Care Reform: Stop Focusing on the Cost
- Massachusetts? existing universal health care plan has become a prototype for current reform proposals now in Congress. But Jonathan Gruber, a key architect of the program, says to make federal reform work, Congress needs to give up trying to control costs for now. ...
- Articles 2009-08-06
- Peoples Educational Holdings F4Q09 (Qtr End 5/30/09) Earnings Call Transcript
- Earnings Call ExcerptPeoples Educational Holdings, Inc. PEDH F4Q09 (Qtr End 5/30/09) Earnings Call August 17, 2009 5:00 pm ET Executives Brian T. Beckwith - President, Chief Executive Officer, Director Michael L. DeMarco - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President Presentation Operator Good day, ladies and gentlemen,...
- Earnings calls 2009-08-26
- Building on the Job-Based Health Care System: What Would It Take?
- The paper presents a blueprint for a reform, along with design choices and their implications, which would improve access, cost control, and quality. Requiring employers to provide coverage or at least to help workers obtain group insurance, combined with income-based premium subsidies, expanded public programs, and backup "insurance exchanges," would...
- White papers 2003-08-27
- On the Road Again: Business Travel and Cost Control Amid a Cautious Recovery
- This article focuses on the crisis of rising costs of business travel. Unfortunately, the cost of travel itself is also expected to rise. Faced with this pressure to hold down travel costs, many financial executives are now looking toward online services for help. It reports the findings of a research...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- ACI Worldwide, Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from George Sutton - Craig-Hallum Capital. George Sutton - Craig-Hallum Capital I wanted to better understand from your perspective the strong operating income guidance for 2009 certainly relative to what we were expecting. I’m trying to understand how much of...
- Earnings calls 2009-02-26
- Expanding Beyond Professional Service Revenue: Experiences, Regulatory Issues and Lessons Learned
- Many medical groups continue to enjoy high levels of profitability despite stagnant or declining reimbursement under Medicare Part B and many commercial payer arrangements. Previous studies of better performing groups have shown that cost control measures, by themselves, rarely result in increased long-term profitability. Better performing medical groups pay attention...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Cost Control, Monitoring And Accounting
- During the execution of a project, procedures for control and record keeping become indispensable tools to managers and other participants in the construction process. These tools serve the dual purpose of recording the financial transactions that occur as well as giving managers an indication of the progress and problems associated...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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- The Finance MBA: Life Beyond Wall Street
- Manhattan might be a ghost town, but regional banks and boutiques will still be hunting for talent. Top feeder schools: ...
- Articles 2009-02-09
- Alberici Group has new VP of project accounting and cost control
- Mike Stoecker, president of Alberici Group, announced that Martin Marty W. Schaper has joined Alberici Group as vice president of project accounting and cost control. Schaper, who brings more than 25 years of corporate and project finance experience to Alberici Group, will act as the department leader for all...
- Research articles 2006-02-17
- Alberici Group has new VP of project accounting and cost control
- Mike Stoecker, president of Alberici Group, announced that Martin Marty W. Schaper has joined Alberici Group as vice president of project accounting and cost control. Schaper, who brings more than 25 years of corporate and project finance experience to Alberici Group, will act as the department leader for...
- Research articles 2006-02-17
- APQC, IBM Study: Organizations Focused on Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting Significantly Outperform Those Focused on Accounting, Control and Cost Management
- HOUSTON -- A recent APQC and IBM Global Business Services survey of 400 participants within the finance organization, internal controls, revenue accounting and profit and cost management areas, finds that organizations that focus on planning, budgeting and forecasting as a business strategy are higher performers in all areas than those...
- Research articles 2006-12-08
- The Public Option And Insurance Exchange In The House Bill
- In my first post, I described the major features and basic approach of HR 3962, as well as the provisions of the bill that would go into effect more or less immediately. This post will look more closely at some of the bill's basic insurance reform elements. In a final...
- News items 2009-10-30
- Performing a Cost/Benefit Analysis
- When you've put a lot of time and effort into developing an idea for a new project or initiative, you may be eager to get it approved and underway. Before you can get started, though, you must convince the decision-makers the project is worthwhile by determining its economic viability—which you...
- Articles 2007-10-29
- Finance and IT's Views on the Cost of Mobile Working
- As mobile working becomes increasingly important to businesses, finance teams seek to control the cost of remote access through better spending information. This paper presents certain key findings of a research which includes: CFOs say that the number of mobile workers at their companies will increase over the next two...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- When One and One Make One | BTalk Australia
- (17min 52) The last year has set a new record for the number of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in Australia. Putting two companies together can be a long and complex process, with the potential for lots to go wrong. Today on BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks...
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Need to know: Greggs profits rise ... Citigroup to be sued ... Thorntons credit facility ...
- View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Trade gap: The trade in goods deficit widened in June to £6.45 billion, after a surge in imports of oil. The gap was bigger than the £6.174 billion reported in May. Imports rose by 2.2 per cent, the biggest increase since...
- News items 2009-08-11
- Brett Hall -- Finance Director.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-19 June 2000-aproperty4u.com: Brett Hall -- Finance Director C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:16062000 Brett Hall (39) will be appointed Finance Director for aproperty4u.com, the UK's leading independent property search engine, from 1 July 2000. Previously Executive Director...
- Research articles 2000-06-19
- Health Wonk Review: Crunch Time For Health Reform
- As Congress faces America’s healthcare demons again, I have the honor of hosting this biweekly review of some of America’s best healthcare bloggers. They include Joe Paduda of Managed Care Matters, who helms a subsection of this Health Wonk Review devoted to initial reactions to Bob Laszewski’s unusual reform proposal....
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
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