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New Approaches to Managing Health Care Costs, Improving Outcomes

InterWest Insurance Services

As health insurance and health care costs continue climbing, some employers are taking new and innovative steps to tamp down costs for themselves and their covered employees while not sacrificing the quality of care they receive. As well, many PBMs steer patients to pharmacies that they own, further muddying the waters.

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Is workers’ compensation spending on healthcare significant? Would a "single-payer" system make a difference?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Failure to confine and fund the medical cost to the workers’ compensation system by definition will externalize those costs to someone else (often the tax payer or premium payers for other health insurance programs, the worker, worker’s family or community, other employers, or other employees of group insurance plans).

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How to conduct a compensation and benefits review

Higginbotham

In the leisure, hospitality, accommodation and food services industries, the quit rate reached 6.6 Key elements to consider include the following: Salary, wages, bonuses and commissions. Health insurance. BLS says that 4.4 million people quit in September 2021. Some industries are seeing even more people quit.

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Who should not have access to employee medical records?

Business Management Daily

They are the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Then there are the standards put in place by The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA Standard 1910.1020). Healthcare facilities like laboratories, nursing homes, and hospitals.

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Who should not have access to employee medical records?

Business Management Daily

They are the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Then there are the standards put in place by The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA Standard 1910.1020). Healthcare facilities like laboratories, nursing homes, and hospitals.

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Building Narrow Networks: 3 Steps to Containing Healthcare Costs

Corporate Synergies

Narrow networks often don’t just involve primary care physicians, but typically include specialists, such as surgeons, and surgical facilities and hospitals. Some value-based networks are built around hospitals that provide exemplary service. For example, a hospital may excel at maternity care, but not at joint replacement surgery.

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FEDlogic – An Employee Benefit Reducing Expenses & Offering Peace of Mind 

HR Professionals Magazine

At least 20% of employees aged 65 and older may be unaware they can continue working, but elect Medicare as their primary insurance. LANDSCAPE & IMPACT In 2022, FEDlogic commissioned the actuarial firm Perr & Knight to complete an exhaustive independent analysis of self-funded group healthcare plans and trends in high-cost claims.