TOOL: Purchaser's Guide to Value-Based Plan ...       October 30, 2009
Feature: The National Business Coalition on Health has developed a guide for employers that want to design health benefit plans that help people stay healthy.
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What Health Care Reform Really Needs: Effective ...       October 30, 2009
Feature: Commentary: Reform measures, as they are currently written, fail to address the core problems with the nation's health care system: the growing prevalence and severity of chronic conditions that consume the majority of health care ...
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Paying for Healthier Employees, Not Just Health ...       June 19, 2009
Feature: Recent health care contracts show how performance guarantees have evolved in recent years. (6/19/2009)
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Economy Prompts More Firms to Waive Drug Co ...       June 19, 2009
Feature: Ultimately, the thinking goes, making it easier for employees to pay for medicine that can keep them healthy will help them--and their employers--avoid costly hospitalizations in the long run. (6/19/2009)
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Diabetes Disease Management Pilot Program Yields ...       April 13, 2009
News: The Diabetes Ten City Challenge has yielded substantial savings for employers even after they have waived co-payments for participants and paid for individual counseling. Patients saved money and improved in several key areas associated ...
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Health Insurers Expand Preventive Offerings       February 19, 2009
News: In response to employer demand that health insurers improve diabetes care management, health plans are adopting benefit design approaches that encourage patients to take better care of this condition, a new report shows.
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Questions Remain Over Balance Billing Despite ...       February 6, 2009
News: A California decision attempts to redress the hospital practice of balance billing, which typically occurs when a patient goes to an emergency room not covered under that person's health insurance.
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Study: Health Plans Ease Access to Essential ...       December 23, 2008
News: For example, for patients with diabetes, 27 percent of health plans waive co-payments, and 33 percent reduce co-payments, for essential drugs and equipment such as blood glucose monitors.
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Incentive Payments Reshape Health Care       August 26, 2008
Feature: Although pay-for-performance initiatives for doctors and hospitals do require an initial investment by program sponsors, they are seen as yielding both savings in health care costs and improvements in patient outcomes. (8/26/2008)
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