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- Blue Cross and Blue Shield Companies Work With Employers to Improve Healthcare Quality, Achieve Cost Savings for Employees
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- Research articles 2006-12-08
- Symantec Helps Screen Actors Guild - Producers Pension & Health Plans Enhance Security and Realize Cost Savings of Nearly $1 Million
- Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced that Screen Actors Guild - Producers Pension & Health Plans SAGPH is using Symantec products and services to help securely expand its online pension and healthcare services while reducing operating costs. With Symantec, SAGPH is also able to ensure compliance with regulations surrounding the...
- Research articles 2006-11-06
- GAO: little proof of managed care cost savings. (General Accounting Office)
- A study on the effect of managed care health plans on employers' health costs conducted by the General Accounting Office GAO reveals little evidence of cost savings. The GAO reports that employers offering managed care plans have increased from 5% of alA study on the effect of managed care health...
- Research articles 1993-11-01
- How Employers Are Using the Internet to Manage Health Benefits: the eHealth Promise
- While the Internet is a vast resource for health information and an unparalleled communications tool, there exists a clear division between its use for practical, transaction-based administrative capabilities and its still largely untapped potential for disease and care management. Employers are skeptical about the Internet's usefulness as a cost-saving tool....
- White papers 2002-08-11
- Medical Visits Via Phone, E-Mail Promise Cost Savings
- In the contemporary, technology-centric business era, an effective way to control rising health care costs is to employ technology tools to administer medical check-ups and other health related interventions. Consulting the doctor through the Internet and consultation through the e-mail spell convenience for the consumer and employer alike. The paper...
- White papers 2003-09-15
- Can Disease Management Reduce Health Care Costs by Improving Quality?
- Disease Management DM promises to achieve cost savings by improving the quality of care for chronic diseases. During the past decade the Permanente Medical Group in Northern California has implemented extensive DM programs. Examining quality indicators, utilization, and costs for adults with four conditions, we find evidence of substantial quality...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- New and Innovative Plans Give Illinois Employers and Consumers Greater Responsibility, Guidance and Cost Savings in Health Coverage; Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois Launches BlueEdge Consumer-Directed Health Care Products
- CHICAGO -- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois BCBSIL recently announced the addition of new and innovative products to its BlueEdge portfolio of consumer-directed health plans. The products are designed to give consumers greater choice and control in directing the health benefits provided by their employers, and to give...
- Research articles 2006-01-30
- Major Cost Savings Cited For VA Health Care.(Department of Veterans Affairs)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- The Department of Veterans Affairs VA could save an estimated $79 million annually--about one-quarter of its inpatient food service expenditures--according to a newly-released report by the United States General Accounting Office. Opportunities for The Department of Veterans Affairs VA could save an estimated $79 million...
- Research articles 2000-12-18
- GAO skeptical on cost savings of managed care. (General Accounting Office, managed health care)
- There is little hard proof that managed health care cuts employers' benefits costs, a General Accounting Office study has found. "Although many employers believe that, in principle, managed care plans save money, little empirical evidence exi There is little hard proof that managed...
- Research articles 1993-10-25
- Educating employees may yield cost savings.(Benefits Management)
- Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK It may be possible to curb the rate of increase in health benefit costs through education alone, without making radical plan design changes, some benefit experts say. In fact, early results of the effectiveness of consumer- Byline: JOANNE...
- Research articles 2004-05-03
- How Medicare Screwed Up Cost Saving in Lab Tests
- Good deeds -- and even attempts at them -- rarely go unpunished in the field of healthcare reform. And punishment is exactly what's befallen a Medicare demonstration project intended to save money by creating a competitive-bidding system for diagnostic laboratory tests. A federal judge yesterday issued...
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
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- Throwing computers at health care
- « Cloud computing, circa 1965 | Main Computerworld reports on an extensive new Harvard Medical School study, appearing in the American Journal of Medicine, that paints a stark and troubling picture of the essential worthlessness of many of the computer systems that hospitals have invested in over the last few...
- News items 2009-12-01
- Health Care Reform: What It Will Cost You
- Despite what you've heard, it won't be only rich people and "inefficiencies" footing the bill. One way or another, whoever you are, you'll share the costs. Here's how. ...
- Articles 2009-08-10
- 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
- Aetna Introduces Vital Savings on Health: Industry-First Offering Combines Discounted Care with Debit Card Feature
- HARTFORD, Conn. -- Aetna (NYSE:AET) announced today a new program that provides consumers with discounts of 10 percent to 50 percent off the cost of routine health care expenses such as doctor visits and certain health care services, discounts of 10 percent to 40 percent off the average wholesale price...
- Research articles 2006-07-12
- ACP issues call for mandated universal coverage: American College of Physicians hopes to bring health care reform to the forefront of the 2008 elections
- The American College of Physicians has for the first time called for legally mandated universal coverage for all U.S. residents and has urged lawmakers to consider a single-payer system as one option for achieving that goal. In a lengthy analysis and health care reform proposal, the ACP also recommends...
- Research articles 2007-12-15
- Managing behavioral health. (Frito-Lay's success with its managed behavioral-health-care program in reducing costs and resolving problems)(Brief Article)
- 00-00-0000 TWO YEARS AFTER IMPLEMENTING A fully integrated, managed behavioral- health-care program, Frito Lay Inc., Dallas, has realized significant cost savings and improved benefits, says Don Lester, senior group manager of human resources. Frito Lay, which employs Managed Health Network Inc. to administer its program,...
- Research articles 1995-08-21
- Arizona Foundation for Medical Care Offers Arizona Businesses Health Care Savings
- Network's Cost Trends Significantly below State Average PHOENIX -- Arizona Foundation for Medical Care AFMC, Arizona's largest statewide independent health care network, offers Arizona businesses health care savings that are significantly below other providers in the state. AFMC's cost trends are well below its competitors' average and the network...
- Research articles 2008-05-06
- Shooting The Messenger Won't Help Reform Health Care
- Sen. Max Baucus, one of the leaders of healthcare reform efforts, has depicted the Congressional Budget Office CBO as an obstacle to reform because it has so far been unable to score many of the proposals that he has made. And he is urging the CBO to find cost savings...
- Blog posts 2009-05-03
- Breaking Down Obama's Health Care Cuts
- Under President Obama’s budget proposal, about half of the money required to fund his $634 billion “reserve fund†for health reform would come from changes in Medicare and Medicaid spending. Jacob Goldstein of the WSJ Health Blog has dug up a detailed list of these projected savings from 2010-2019 in...
- Blog posts 2009-02-27
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