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Workplace Bullying: A Management Primer
Workplace Bullying: A Management Primer What Constitutes Bullying? Common wisdom used to be that...
Tags: Workplace, Employee, Health Care, Health Cost, Robert Rice, Hirschfeld, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Adam L. Penenberg, Bully, Bullying, Bob Sutton, Gary Namie, Workplace Violence, Harrassment
Articles 2008-10-20

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U.S. auto makers are seen taking big health cost hit; research shows it's the biggest bar to competitiveness. (University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute study)
U.S. Auto Makers Are Seen Taking Big Health Cost Hit WASHINGTON--Health care costs are the major public policy impediment to the U.S. auto industry's competitiveness, according to new research by the University of Michigan. "New studies show that for the "big three"...
Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE
Research articles 1992-02-24
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....
Tags: Health Care, Bob Laszewski, David Harlow, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Ken Terry
Blog posts 2009-07-08
Health cost inflation to ease in '04; Hewitt study projects a 12.6% average increase, down from recent years.(News)
Byline: JERRY GEISEL Health care cost increases finally may be moderating. Next year, group health care costs are projected to rise by 12.6% on average, to $7,009 per employee, according to an analysis by benefit consultant Hewitt Associates Inc Byline: JERRY...
Tags: health care, Hewitt Associates Inc., inflation
Research articles 2003-10-13
A Temporary Fix? Implications of the Move Away From Comprehensive Health Benefits
This paper explores one of the potential consequences of the return to double-digit health cost inflation: a movement away from comprehensive health care coverage and the degradation of the health insurance risk pools necessary to maintain such coverage. There is growing concern in the health policy community about attempts to...
Tags: Health Benefit, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
White papers 2002-04-01
CalPERS sees payoff from health cost cuts.(News)(California Public Employees' Retirement System)
Byline: ROBERTO CENICEROS SACRAMENTO, Calif.-The California Public Employees' Retirement System said last week that its strategy for attacking cost drivers has paid off, with health plan premium increases that averaged just 8.9% for its 2006 purch Byline: ROBERTO CENICEROS SACRAMENTO,...
Tags: CalPERS, health care
Research articles 2005-06-20
Fewer Companies Willing To Shoulder Health Cost Increase
Fewer companies are willing to shoulder cost increase. In an attempt to control spiraling costs, companies are increasingly requiring their workers to take on more responsibility for their health-care needs. Employers are indicating that promoting individual responsibility for their own health care is a critical goal of their overall program....
Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
White papers 2002-05-30
2001 plan costs up 11.2% and are expected to climb for 2002: Mercer; Health cost hikes growing.(health insurance costs)(Statistical Data Included)
Double-digit increases in group health care plan costs are back for the first time in nearly a decade, with no end in sight. With health plans continuing to impose stiff rate increases, employers' total health plan costs for active employees in 200 Double-digit increases...
Tags: health care, health insurance, HMO, Mercer, survey
Research articles 2001-12-10
Structuring a new health plan: the building blocks of a defined contribution health plan include not just dollars and deductibles but choices reflecting your company's goals - Health Care
The concept is simple: Give employees access to a fund they can use for their current health care expenses or set aside for their health costs later on, and they'll spend the money as carefully as if it were their own. And even if they don't spend less, at least...
Tags: Benefits, Countrywide Financial Corp., HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2003-03-01
Health cost increases hold steady-for now; Consumerism helps keep average hike at 6.1%, Mercer finds.(Mercer Health & Benefits L.L.C.)
Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK By stressing consumerism and heath care management, U.S. employers have successfully managed to keep the rate of increase in group health plan costs steady in the past two years. In 2006, group health care plan costs increa Byline:...
Tags: health care, Mercer
Research articles 2006-11-20
Providers less likely to pass along rising health costs, Watson Wyatt survey finds.(Brief Article)
Both employers and health plans are much more likely than health care providers to pass along rising medical costs to employees or clients, according to the results of a recent survey sponsored by Watson Wyatt Worldwide, the Washington Business Group on Health and the Healthcare Financial...
Tags: Watson Wyatt & Co.
Research articles 2000-05-01
Fiserv Health Acquires Innovative Cost Solutions
Fee Negotiation Service Expands Fiserv Health Cost Management Capabilities
Tags: Fiserv Inc., health care
Research articles 2006-10-18
Deere's health cost pain eased by pact.(News)
Byline: JAMES B. ARNDORFER Deere & Co. won concessions under its new pact with the United Auto Workers that should slow the rise in health care costs at the Moline-based maker of agricultural machinery. Starting July 1, the six-year contract Byline:...
Tags: Deere, Deere & Co., health care
Research articles 2003-10-20
Double-digit health cost hikes ahead; Aon Consulting study sees average increases over 10% in all plan types.(News)(Survey)
Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK Health care costs are expected to increase at double-digit rates for the 12-month rating periods beginning between April 2007 and September 2007, according to a new survey by Aon Consulting, a unit of Chicago-based Aon Corp. Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK...
Tags: Aon Consulting, health care, survey
Research articles 2007-06-11
Florida Lawmakers Continue to Consider Health-Cost Solutions.
By Mary Ellen Klas, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 21--TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Sen. Durell Peaden calls rising health-insurance costs "the kitchen table" issue of the year. But the head of the Senate's Health, Aging and Long-Term Care ...
Tags: Benefits, Governor, HEALTHCARE, Insurance, SOFTWARE, U.S. Senate
Research articles 2004-04-21
Cobalt Releases Municipal Health Cost Survey
LANSING, Mich. -- Local governments have work ahead on retiree health care costs, amid new requirements to disclose them, but are making progress, according to a study that examines trends in municipality health care costs. All state and local governments must comply with a new standard imposed by the Governmental...
Tags: Benefits, Cobalt Networks, Government, Governmental Accounting Standards Board, HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2008-08-18
Benefits Leadership in Health Plans
If there's such a thing as benefits mojo, Karrie Andes has it. As HR director at Deffenbaugh Industries, a Shawnee Mission, Kan.-based waste management company, she has successfully recruited and retained employees to work at a company headquartered at a landfill. As her benefits peers struggle with double-digit health cost...
Tags: Deffenbaugh Industries Inc.
Research articles 2006-09-15
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals for Health: Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Strategies to Combat HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries
The sixth millennium development goal, adopted by the United Nations in 2000, aims to halt by 2015 and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS. Since the millennium development goals were set, the incidence of HIV infection and associated mortality have continued to climb in low and middle income countries,...
Tags: Strategy, Infection, Developing Country, Health Care, Analysis, Millennium Development Goal, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
White papers 2005-11-10
Groundbreaking Federal Study by GAO Validates Medco Health Cost-Savings for Generic Drugs
Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers
Tags: cost savings, General Accounting Office
Research articles 2003-01-24
Hewitt Associates and Medstat Announce Program to Combat Rising Health Cost Benefits
Business Editors/Health and Medical Writers
Tags: health care, Hewitt Associates LLC
Research articles 2002-09-23
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