Recession Will Cause More Health Cost Shifting       May 1, 2009
News: The recession likely will boost group health care costs higher than employers anticipated, leading more organizations to shift more costs to employees and adopt lower-cost consumer-driven health plans, a survey finds.
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Supreme Court Refuses to Stay San Francisco ...       March 31, 2009
News: US Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy on Monday, March 30, denied a request from a San Francisco-area restaurant trade association for an emergency order to halt enforcement of San Francisco's health care spending law.
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Court will Not Review Ruling on San Francisco ...       March 9, 2009
News: Under the law, employers with 100 or more employees must make health care expenditures in 2009 of at least $1.85 per hour for every eligible employee working at least eight hours a week, and employers with 20 to 99 employees must make ...
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More California Employers Offering CDHPs       December 22, 2008
News: A recent survey has found that 38 percent of employers in the nation's most populous state now offer high-deductible health plans to their employees, up from 18 percent in 2007.
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Report: Primary Care Doctors Have Limited ...       October 17, 2008
News: A large proportion of the nation's primary care physicians are not prepared to advise patients enrolled in consumer-driven health plans on such issues as coverage limitations and cost considerations, a new survey finds.
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2008 Health Care Costs Show a Rise of 5 Percent, ...       September 24, 2008
News: Despite the slowdown in health insurance rate increases, premiums have more than doubled since 1999, according to an annual survey. Researchers believe rates could spike next year due to the lagging economy.
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Health Plan Advisors' Role Is Expanding       August 18, 2008
News: General Motors' decision last month to eliminate retiree health benefits highlights the growing role that outside advisors will play as employers divest themselves of retiree health care obligations.
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Retiree Health Care Plans Staging a Comeback       April 1, 2008
News: As a long-running legal controversy about the design of retiree health care plans has been resolved, the future of the plans may be brightening.
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Potentially Costly Wrinkle in San Francisco's ...       February 26, 2008
News: Employers that thought they would be unaffected by the city's ordinance still could be on the hook for employees who opt to enroll in their spouse's health care plan.
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