Issue 2
News And Insights
Get Online and Get Healthy: How to become an effective E-Patient Part 2
Becoming a more effective e patient involves honing your internet searching skills, becoming more proactive in using information retrieved, personalizing sites to quickly locate the most pertinent topics, taking advantage of online communication alternatives, and spending more time in online patient-physician interactions.
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The Fallacy of ROI as a Measurement Tool……Shouldn’t it be ROF? But Even then, it’s Useless
How often do you see ROI (Return on Investment) being used by managed care service providers to promote the “financial benefits” of their product? “ROI 10 to1” says one company.
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Have You Tuned Up Your Captive Lately?
All self-funded organizations are faced with significant overhead cost for their operations, particularly in these economic times and soft market.
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The Injured Worker, Case Management and getting them back to work.
Light duty or transitional duty: Many companies do not have light duty positions available. Especially companies in Construction, transportation, manufacturing and the like. Many of these companies do not have office staff employed or an office at all for that matter
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2010 Healthcare Costs Likely To Rise at Higher Rate Than 2009
The “Kaiser Family Foundation” (KFF) publication titled “2009 Kaiser Employer Health Benefits Survey” can be viewed on-line; I would not recommend that you print it unless you want all 238 pages in hard copy. In doing this survey they completed full interviews with 2,054 firms from January to May 2009.
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“The Group Captive Meets Medical Expense”
Health Care Reform is debated in every news outlet, every day. Ideas for a government plan option stir debate along with other wide ranging suggestions on how to stop the runaway cost of health care
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Employers Guide to Self Funding Healthcare Part 1
Most self-funded or self insured employers want flexibility in making key decisions on benefits, administration and funding, yet need to limit their liability
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Corporate Governance and Risk Management: Your Insurance Broker’s Role
The notorious Enron, Tyco and WorldCom scandals – to name but a few – trailed behind them an unparalleled crisis in corporate governance, here and abroad.
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Self-testing Workplace Health Stations: Reducing Health and Productivity Risks due to Hypertension and Obesity
Hypertension, obesity, and overweight, which harm worker health and productivity, are epidemic in the United States. Among adults in the United States, approximately 30% are hypertensive, one-third are obese, and one-third are overweight
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Health Care and Telemedicine
Telemedicine is the practice of health care delivery, diagnosis, consultation, treatment and the transfer of medical data through interactive audio, video or data communications that occur in the physical presence of the patient, including audio
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The Rap on Wrap Plan Documents
Let’s start with the basics. A “wrap” plan document is legal document that combines and incorporates, by reference, all group insurance policies and contracts that
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Corporate Wellness and the Role of Chronic Disease Monitoring
: While statistics may vary, in a typical modern company about 12 percent of their population is Type-II diabetic and upwards of 20 percent suffer from other chronic diseases such as hypertension and heart-related issues.
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Branding Your Self Funded / Self Insured Plan Offering
Enrolling employees in healthcare benefits and marketing healthcare benefits enjoys the advantage of having a captive audience AND established channels to reach them.
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The Future of Self Funding and the Self Insurance Industry
As we enter a new year, 2010, the self insurance industry is poised for significant growth. The new healthcare reform bill if passed into law will eliminate the annual excise tax on third party administrators,
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