09 Sep CMS moves to shore up ACA insurance markets

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Great article from Modern Healthcare by Bob Herman The CMS proposed rules Monday afternoon that would make several changes to the Affordable Care Act marketplaces and refine the law's risk adjustment, heeding calls from the health insurance industry. The proposed rules (PDF), which normally are released in November,...

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01 Sep The Next Innovation In Controlling Healthcare Costs

Posted at 08:30h in Employee Benefits, Health Care, Health Care Plans, Health Care Reform, trending

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As healthcare costs continually increase, understanding where the cost come from and how to manage them is critical. Bruce Barr gives a great editorial on why new trends are essential in controlling costs. Original post from EmployeeBenefitAdviser.com on August 1, 2016. Four decades ago, PPOs were hailed...

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11 Jul Office Chatter: Your Doctor Will See You In This Telemedicine Kiosk

Posted at 09:00h in ClearPath blog, Health Care, Study/Research, Technology, Wellness, Workplace

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Original Post from KHN.org By: Phil Galewitz On the day abdominal pain and nausea struck Jessica Christianson at the office, she discovered how far telemedicine has come. Rushing to a large kiosk in the lobby of the Palm Beach County School District’s administrative building where she works, Christianson,...

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06 Jul Core Benefits Drive Satisfaction More Than Niche Offerings

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Original Post from SHRM.org By: Stephen Miller Improving traditional core benefits could be the best way to increase employees’ satisfaction with their rewards mix, new research suggests. The three offerings with the greatest effect on how employees rate their benefits are health insurance, 401(k) retirement plans and vacation/paid time...

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27 Jun Health Care Consumerism Is More Than A Benefit Design

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Original Post from BeneftisPro.com By: Steven Auerbach The shift to health care consumerism is well underway. Trends continue to point to increased financial responsibility for consumers with rising deductibles, increased consumer out-of-pocket responsibilities, and accelerated adoption of consumer-directed health care plans (CDHPs), health savings accounts (HSAs), and...

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22 Jun Many Patients Don’t Get Much Out of EHRs

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Original post benefitspro.com Most Americans appear to view electronic health records (EHR) as a welcome convenience, but not as a game-changing medical advance. That’s what one can glean from a recent survey of patients conducted by HealthMine. The poll of 500 insured adults found that 60 percent...

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13 Jun What Percentage of Your Life Will You Spend Exercising?

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Original post benefitspro.com How much of your life will you spend exercising? Reebok and Censuswide, a global consulting firm, studied exercise habits of people in nine different countries and came to the conclusion that the average person spends 0.69 percent of their life working out. Or, as the shoe...

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08 Jun Americans Don’t Do Much to Avoid Hearing Loss

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Original post benefitspro.com Have you ever even heard of healthy hearing habits? If not, you’re probably not alone. Relatively few Americans appear to pay much attention to their ears, according to a recent survey conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of EPIC Hearing Healthcare. The survey found that...

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07 Jun Study Suggests Plan Transparency Doesn’t Reduce Costs

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Original post benefitspro.com “Transparency” and “choice” are keywords associated with health plan consumers these days. But there’s no guarantee those key words will lead to the keyword phrase “lower health plan costs.” One survey of the employees of two large employers reports that, given transparency and choice, plan...

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15 Apr 5 Ways Employers Can Optimize the Value of Maternity Care for Employees

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Original post benefitnews.com For many employers, discussions with employees about pregnancy focus on one topic: maternity leave. Yet, it is important to remember that length of maternity leave is only one of several important decisions made by an employee preparing for childbirth. Expecting parents are highly engaged in...

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