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Live Webcast: 5 Key Strategies for Making Sales the Engine for Growth
This may be a tough year for sales...but not for everyone. Some of the world's most successful corporations employ 5 key strategies that allow them to buck the trend and...
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Date: June 2008 |
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Consumer-Directed Health Plans
Many industry observers believe that the U.S. health care system is in the midst of a transformational change centered on consumerism - the process of enabling and engagi...
Company: Deloitte LLP
Date: December 2007 |
Deloitte LLP |
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Strategic Flexibility For The Health Plan Industry: The Next Move For Growth & Innovation In An Uncertain Market
This paper describes a rigorous yet adaptable framework called Strategic Flexibility to help executives guide their organizations through the complex and uncertain health...
Company: Deloitte LLP
Date: December 2007 |
Deloitte LLP |
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Employee Death Benefits Letter
This is a template employee death benefits letter. This letter is written to an employer after the death of the employee to request any employee benefits that the estate ...
Company: Richard Graham
Date: December 2007 |
Richard Graham |
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Pay for Quality: A Strategic Perspective
A new research paper by the Deloitte Center for Health solutions examines the gap between the health care we get and the care we could be getting. The paper offers one vi...
Company: Deloitte LLP
Date: September 2007 |
Deloitte LLP |
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Healthcare 2015 and U.S. health plans: New roles, new competencies
The U.S. healthcare system is on an unsustainable path that will force its transformation. Health plan providers must help shape and lead the healthcare transformation or...
Company: IBM
Date: August 2007 |
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In the interest of the patient: Convergence across the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries
While the pharmaceutical industry is seeking to replace the blockbuster model of drug development, healthcare is struggling with rapidly rising costs. This paper explores...
Company: IBM
Date: December 2006 |
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Healthcare 2015: Win-win or lose-lose?
Healthcare is in crisis. While this is not news for many countries, IBM's Institute for Business Value believes what is now different is that the current paths of many he...
Company: IBM
Date: October 2006 |
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Reducing Corporate Health Care Costs: Refocusing The Strategy
Employers currently spend more than $390 billion per year on employee health insurance, with annual health care cost increases significantly exceeding the overall rate of...
Company: Deloitte LLP
Date: September 2006 |
Deloitte LLP |
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Employment and Adverse Selection in Health Insurance
The authors' construct and test a new model of employer-provided health insurance provision in the presence of adverse selection in the health insurance market. In their ...
Company: Stanford University
Date: August 2006 |
Stanford University |
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How Much More Cost Sharing Will Health Savings Accounts Bring?
Proponents of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) contend that they will reduce medical expenditures. In practice, however, the effect of HSAs, and the high-deductible health ...
Company: Project HOPE
Date: July 2006 |
Project HOPE |
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Funding Retiree Benefits Becomes More Challenging
Problems in financing retiree health benefits have been brought to a head with the aging of the Baby Boom generation. Most people will be covered by Medicare after retire...
Company: Dow Jones & Company
Date: March 2006 |
Dow Jones & Company |
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AOL Founder Champions a Revolution
Steve Case is turning his attention to the health care industry in hopes of effecting radical changes in how people meet their health needs. The means to this end is Revo...
Company: Crain Communications
Date: February 2006 |
Crain Communications |
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Federal Employees Health Benefits Program
Differences in utilization of health care services across the country have been well documented, but less has been reported on geographic variation in price. As health ca...
Company: Thomson Gale
Date: February 2006 |
Thomson Gale |
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Pension Changes in Austria
Historically, the Austrian pension system had few private plans of substance. Then, in 1990, the system was fundamentally reformed through the introduction of defined con...
Company: Mercer Human Resource Consulting
Date: January 2006 |
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India: Recent Issues in the Retirement Benefits Market
In a country like India, where social security measures are insignificant and individuals are often either ill-organized or inattentive to planning and providing for thei...
Company: Mercer Human Resource Consulting
Date: January 2006 |
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Preventive Medicine: Employee Wellness Programs Are Prone to Legal Maladies That Require Careful Monitoring
On the basis of a survey of more than 500 major U.S. employers, Hewitt Associates reported that the number of companies using wellness and disease management programs inc...
Company: Thomson Gale
Date: January 2006 |
Thomson Gale |
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Health, Dental, Vision, Pharmacy, Life and Disability
In the world of small business, there's nothing more critical to one's company's success than the health and well-being of your employees. Aetna is committed to putting t...
Company: Aetna
Date: January 2006 |
Aetna |
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Employers Are Looking Beyond Costs to Measure and Improve Health Benefit Performance
Human Resource (HR) professionals are under increasing pressure to contain employer health benefit costs (without negative workforce consequences), demonstrate Return on ...
Company: Towers Perrin
Date: November 2005 |
Towers Perrin |
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The Disappearing Benefit
As employers grapple with ever-rising costs, global competition and the legion of aging baby boomers, the future of retiree health coverage is cast into doubt. With compa...
Company: Crain Communications
Date: November 2005 |
Crain Communications |
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Severe Medical Conditions and Loss of Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study
Illness increases individuals' demand for health insurance, but may also place them at risk of losing coverage. While public insurance and price restrictions in private m...
Company: University of Chicago
Date: November 2005 |
University of Chicago |
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How to Present the Business Case for Healthcare Quality to Employers
Many employers in the United States are investing in new programs to improve the quality of medical care and simultaneously shifting more of the health care costs to thei...
Company: University of Pennsylvania
Date: November 2005 |
University of Pennsylvania |
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Product Market Competition and Human Resource Practices: An Analysis of the Retail Food Sector
The rise of super-centers and the entry of Wal-Mart into food retailing have dramatically altered the competitive environment in the industry. This paper explores the imp...
Company: University of Minnesota
Date: November 2005 |
University of Minnesota |
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UnumProvident Champions Innovative Solutions for Supplemental Disability Insurance Benefits
Key trends have moved supplemental disability insurance to the forefront of the employee benefits package. Employee-pay-all plans help manage the conflicting corporate ch...
Company: UnumProvident
Date: October 2005 |
UnumProvident |
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Employers Not Eager for Systemic Overhaul to Bring Down Health Costs
At a time when premiums are rising inexorably and General Motors cites health care costs as a primary reason that it is hemorrhaging red ink, American companies could be ...
Company: Crain Communications
Date: October 2005 |
Crain Communications |
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How to Break Into LTC Sales Via the Workplace
The issues surrounding America's aging population and long-term care needs have been popular topics in the news lately. The need for LTC insurance is growing quickly. Bab...
Company: UnumProvident
Date: October 2005 |
UnumProvident |
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Supplemental Insurance Spells Relief for Hard-Pressed Employers
With the employer-subsidized benefits system strained as never before, supplemental insurance benefits offered on an employee-pay-all "voluntary" basis have emerged as a ...
Company: UnumProvident
Date: October 2005 |
UnumProvident |
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Account-Based Health Plans Can Curb Costs and Engage Employees
To control health benefit costs, reinforce key consumerist messages and give employees financial incentives to be more accountable for their health care decisions, a grow...
Company: Towers Perrin
Date: October 2005 |
Towers Perrin |
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Health Insurance Costs Slow, But Still Top Inflation and Wage Increases
Health insurance costs climbed 9.2 percent between the spring of 2004 and the spring of 2005, their lowest rate of increase in five years but still far ahead of rises in ...
Company: Thomson Gale
Date: October 2005 |
Thomson Gale |
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Employee Health Care Decisions Are Fueled by Fear and Insecurity
The fear factor might drive positive ratings for reality TV shows, but it's doing little to control health care costs. Despite employers' best efforts to contain costs th...
Company: Towers Perrin
Date: September 2005 |
Towers Perrin |
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State of the Sector: Health Care Benefits
Struggling with surging premiums, more companies are delving into high-deductible plans aimed at getting employees to think twice about making frivolous treatment decisio...
Company: Crain Communications
Date: September 2005 |
Crain Communications |
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Check HIPAA compliance with this Excel calculator
Our HIPAA compliance calculator will help covered entities determine the status of their compliance efforts in the areas of HIPAA Privacy, Standardization of Code Sets, S...
Company: TechRepublic
Date: August 2005 |
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Risk-Sharing in Retiree Medical Benefits
Retiree medical care expenditures in the United States are growing at a rapid rate, while and the retired portion of the population is increasing. This puts pressure on g...
Company: University of Pennsylvania
Date: August 2005 |
University of Pennsylvania |
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Clhia Response to CCIR/CSIRO Consultation Paper: Relationships Between Insurers and Sales Intermediaries
The CLHIA welcomes the opportunity to provide comment on the CCIR/CISRO Consultation Paper, Relationships between Insurers and Sales Intermediaries. In this submission, t...
Company: CCIR / CCRRA
Date: August 2005 |
CCIR / CCRRA |
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Immigrants and Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
Interest in the health status of immigrant populations has increased dramatically in response to their rapid growth over the past two decades. More immigrants came to liv...
Company: University of California
Date: August 2005 |
University of California |
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Employment-Based Health Benefits: Trends in Access and Coverage
This report examines the state of employment-based health benefits among workers with respect to offer rates, coverage rates, and take-up rates. It also examines how the ...
Company: Employee Benefit Research Institute Education and Research Fund
Date: August 2005 |
Employee Benefit Research Institute Education and Research Fund |
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Health Care Funding Design May Aid Smaller Employers
Some health care financing experts are welcoming a new approach to benefits design. Others warn that it won't work well for companies with poor claims experience....
Company: Crain Communications
Date: July 2005 |
Crain Communications |
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Employers Are Using New Strategies to Manage Prescription Drug Costs
Prescription drug costs have grown at double-digit rates over the past two decades, representing roughly 18% of the total medical spend for active employees and close to ...
Company: Towers Perrin
Date: July 2005 |
Towers Perrin |
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Health Savings Accounts: Bringing Savings and Choice to the Health Insurance Landscape
As most small business owners know, they would rather be running their business than running their health plan. After all, while important to employee wellbeing, paying f...
Company: Thomson Gale
Date: July 2005 |
Thomson Gale |
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Consumer Directed Health Care
Healthcare financing continues to be a significant problem in the United States. Healthcare costs are trending considerably above that of inflation. In 2002, the U.S. hea...
Company: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
Date: July 2005 |
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences |
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Overview of Proposed Model Option to Expand Health Insurance Coverage Among Employed Virginians
In 2004, the state of Virginia was awarded a State Planning Grant (SPG) from the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human S...
Company: George Mason University
Date: July 2005 |
George Mason University |
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