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- Blue Shield CEO Pushes An HMO's Dream Plan: Universal Health Care Without Cost Controls
- SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The brewing debate over the state's ailing health care system has brought a new voice into the fray. Bruce Bodaken, CEO of Blue Shield of California, announced a plan to provide health insurance for all CaliforniaSAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4 /U.S. Newswire/ --...
- Research articles 2002-12-04
- 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
- Cost Control Is Still Nowhere in Sight, Experts Say
- The Democratic proposals for controlling healthcare costs won't have much impact in the short term, experts say. Unless they can do something about spending, they will accomplish little. by Ken Terry
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- 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
- 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
- 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
- WC execs: Clinton plan undermines cost control. (Spotlight on Workers' Compensation)
- It is "ironic" that just when an increasing number of states are beginning to recognize the need for employer control over workers' compensation medical costs, President Clinton's federal health care reform plan threatens to take that contr It is "ironic" that just when an increasing number...
- Research articles 1994-02-28
- Nunn: Health bills lack cost control incentives. (Senator Sam Nunn)
- WASHINGTON - All the health care reform bills currently pending in Congress fail to adequately address the issue of creating proper incentives for effective cost control, Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., has charged. He said that during an extensive investig WASHINGTON - All the...
- Research articles 1994-08-15
- Consumerism program helps spread cost control message.(Benefits Management)
- Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK Honeywell International Inc. is putting health care consumerism to the test with a new health education program aimed at improving outcomes, thereby lowering health care costs. "We are strong believers in many aspects Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK ...
- Research articles 2004-05-03
- New cost control plan questioned; Alabama Blues to limit cover to existing medical facilities. (Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Alabama)
- BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - In a move some say will limit health care services and dampen competition, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Alabama is letting employers and health care providers know it will not pay for services at medical centers that do not alreadBIRMINGHAM, Ala. - In...
- Research articles 1996-11-11
- Investing to cure health-care woes; CalPERS earmarks $700 million to private equity fund that is targeting cost control.(California. Public Employees' Retirement System)
- Byline: Raquel Pichardo SACRAMENTO, Calif. - In a novel move, CalPERS is wielding its investment bucks to drive down the fund's health-care costs after five straight years of double-digit premium increases. The pension fund is committing $700 mi Byline: Raquel Pichardo...
- Research articles 2007-06-11
- CA Law Could Be National Model to Address Uninsured Rates If Cost Controls Are Adopted, Says FTCR
- SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A new report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau shows that uninsured rates are increasing fastest among the nation's middle class as a result of fall-offs in employer-sponsored health care. A bill on CalifSAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A...
- Research articles 2003-09-30
- Cost control.(HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNTS)
- Naples business owner Dustin Goeggle offers a Blue Cross and Blue Shield PPO health insurance plan to his 26 workers. He splits the costs 50-50 with employees. Typically 80% of his employees sign up for the plan, but this year premium increases took Naples business...
- Research articles 2005-12-01
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- What the Health Care Reform Plans Get Wrong
- An American Enterprise Institute economist gives his recommendations for how health care reform should be pursued -- and explains why he's skeptical of President Obama's claims that if you like your current health insurance plan, you'll be able to keep it. Miller...
- Articles 2009-08-17
- Health Care Checkup
- Feeling a bit lost in the debate over health care reform? It's understandable. America's health care system was already confusing even before Congress' ideas for changing it. Now, special interests have made things yet murkier. The White House has backed away from its initial support of a government-run insurance program;...
- News items 2009-08-18
- The president's health-care miscalculations
- NEW YORK Fortune -- For health-care reform, 2009 wasn't supposed to be a repeat of 1993-94. It would be different this time. That's been the conventional wisdom 15 years after the defeat of First Lady Hillary Clinton's ambitious plan, which badly shook her husband's young presidency. This time, industry players...
- News items 2009-08-22
- Department Of Defense Awards Major Health Care Contracts
- The Department of Defense in the United States is responsible for providing health care to its active duty forces, their dependents and retirees. They operate in conjunction with the Veterans Administration to care for a large swath of the U.S. population. In the old days there were limited...
- Blog posts 2009-07-17
- Massachusetts Gives Cost-Control Incentive for Mental Health Care.
- By Liz Kowalczyk, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 25--Even as insurers and employers do away with the most controversial aspects of traditional managed care so they don't upset patients, they are embracing it for one particular type of care:...
- Research articles 2003-06-25
- Savvy employers escort managed care practices into rural communities.(Spotlight Report: Health Care Innovations: New Ideas in Health Care Cost Control)
- Large employers with operations in smaller communities are taking the initiative to introduce managed care concepts to their workers and health care providers. Additionally, a recent federal law allowing private plans to compete with Medicare could spLarge employers with operations in smaller communities are taking the...
- Research articles 1998-02-02
- Premera Blue Cross 2005 Quality Score Card: an Updated Snapshot of Health Care Quality in Washington; Results Range from Dramatic Improvement in Diabetes Control to a Decline in Prescribing Practices That Minimize Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria
- MOUNTLAKE TERRACE, Wash. -- Premera Blue Cross and prominent medical groups across Washington today announced results of the 2005 Premera Quality Score Card, a collaboration supporting better health and more sustainable costs by providing information health care professionals and consumers can use to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health...
- Research articles 2005-12-14
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