Download or read book Employer s Guide to Medical Tourism Benefit Design written by Maria K. Todd and published by Productivity Press. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the group health benefit sector, domestic and international health travel has become a cost containment option. Through the use of benefit design incentives, employers are testing the receptiveness of plan participants and encouraging plan members to consider a network of high-performance healthcare providers in targeted locations away from home. This book discusses how to design and launch a health travel benefit pilot program. Topics include quality, safety, and logistic considerations as well as provider selection criteria. Also included are worksheets, checklists and forms to use when designing a health travel benefit program.
Download or read book Employer s Guide to Medical Tourism Benefit Design written by Maria Todd and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable handbook for navigating the complexity of health travel benefit programming, written specifically for the group health benefit plan administrator
Download or read book Employer s Guide to Health Care Reform written by Ballard Spahr LLP and published by CCH. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employer's Guide to Health Care Reform, 2018 Edition is the premier step-by-step practical guide for employers struggling to keep up with the rapid pace of changes affecting their health benefit plans. This practical guide helps you strategize about how to design your employee health plans to satisfy ACA requirements; design your workforce to minimize penalty exposure; achieve significant cost-savings; understand new notice requirements; meet deadlines and take advantage of opportunities to delay implementation; and more! Specifically Employer's Guide to Health Care Reform will help you: Design your employee health plans to satisfy ACA requirements Design your workforce to minimize penalty exposure Understand new notice requirements that apply in 2015 Achieve significant cost savings Meet deadlines and take advantage of opportunities to delay implementation Plan ahead to avoid or minimize Cadillac tax exposure Employer's Guide to Health Care Reform, 2018 Edition provides in-depth discussion and detailed explanations on critical topics, including: An explanation of the U.S. Supreme Court's watershed decision in King v. Burwell, allowing subsidies to be paid on federally facilitated Exchanges The IRS's efforts to prevent employers from offering low-value "skinny" health plans that provide minimum essential coverage to satisfy ACA requirements, but provide little or no coverage for basic health services The Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) that allows small businesses to obtain health insurance for employees through an Exchange The new requirement for employers with self-funded health plans and insurers to report information to the IRS on Forms 1094 and 1095 The employer's limited ability to offer supplemental coverage that "wraps around" an employee's individual health insurance coverage The penalties that apply to insurers and employers if plan coverage does not satisfy the ACA market reforms Various ACA exemptions for limited scope dental, vision, and long-term care benefits Discussion of the IRS proposed guidance on the Cadillac tax, which will apply to excessive health coverage beginning in 2018 And much more Previous Edition: Employer's Guide to Health Care Reform, ISBN 9781454872689
Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Medical Tourism written by Patrick W. Marsek and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've heard you can save big bucks by heading overseas for major medical care-- but you don't want your concerns to get lost in translation. Learn to navigate the international health-care system and find the destination that works best for you.
Download or read book Engage written by Elizabeth Bierbower and published by HC Pro, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Patients with Passports written by I. Glenn Cohen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can your employer require you to travel to India for a hip replacement as a condition of insurance coverage? If injury results, can you sue the doctor, hospital or insurer for medical malpractice in the country where you live? Can a country prohibit its citizens from helping a relative travel to Switzerland for assisted suicide? What about travel for abortion? In Patients with Passports, I. Glenn Cohen tackles these important questions, and provides the first comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of medical tourism. Medical tourism is a growing multi-billion dollar industry involving millions of patients who travel abroad each year to get health care. Some seek legitimate services like hip replacements and travel to avoid queues, save money, or because their insurer has given them an incentive to do so. Others seek to circumvent prohibitions on accessing services at home and go abroad to receive abortions, assisted suicide, commercial surrogacy, or experimental stem cell treatments. In this book, author I. Glenn Cohen focuses on patients traveling for cardiac bypass and other legal services to places like India, Thailand, and Mexico, and analyzes issues of quality of care, disease transmission, liability, private and public health insurance, and the effects of this trade on foreign health care systems. He goes on to examine medical tourism for services illegal in the patient's home country, such as organ purchase, abortion, assisted suicide, fertility services, and experimental stem cell treatments. Here, Cohen examines issues such as extraterritorial criminalization, exploitation, immigration, and the protection of children. Through compelling narratives, expert data, and industry explanations Patients with Passports enables the reader to connect with the most prevalent legal and ethical issues facing medical tourism today.
Download or read book A Research Agenda for Sustainable Tourism written by Stephen F. McCool and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring tourism in an increasingly valuable landscape, this forward-looking book examines the importance of the sustainability of global travel. Leading authors in the field outline the major trajectories for research helpful in developing a sustainable and environmentally-minded industry.
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Download or read book Local Economic and Employment Development LEED Policy Guide on Social Impact Measurement for the Social and Solidarity Economy written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As social and solidarity economy (SSE) entities are increasingly requested to demonstrate their positive contribution to society, social impact measurement can help them understand the additional, net value generated by their activities, in the pursuit of their mission and beyond. Policy plays an important role to facilitate a conducive environment to unlock the uptake of social impact measurement among SSE actors.
Download or read book Tourism Innovation in the Digital Era written by Marco Valeri and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-23 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism Innovation in the Digital Era explores topics as diverse as big data analytics in tourism marketing to the impact of AI to the use of CSR in competitiveness amongst hotel groups, providing multidisciplinary approaches on the organizational impacts of digitalization and artificial intelligence in tourism and hospitality.
Download or read book Best Practice Guidelines for Great Ape Tourism written by Elizabeth J. Macfie and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2010 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Executive summary: Tourism is often proposed 1) as a strategy to fund conservation efforts to protect great apes and their habitats, 2) as a way for local communities to participate in, and benefit from, conservation activities on behalf of great apes, or 3) as a business. A few very successful sites point to the considerable potential of conservation-based great ape tourism, but it will not be possible to replicate this success everywhere. The number of significant risks to great apes that can arise from tourism reqire a cautious approach. If great ape tourism is not based on sound conservation principles right from the start, the odds are that economic objectives will take precedence, the consequences of which in all likelihood would be damaging to the well-being and eventual survival of the apes, and detrimental to the continued preservation of their habitat. All great ape species and subspecies are classified as Endangered or Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN 2010), therefore it is imperative that great ape tourism adhere to the best practice guidelines in this document. The guiding principles of best practice in great ape tourism are: Tourism is not a panacea for great ape conservation or revenue generation; Tourism can enhance long-term support for the conservation of great apes and their habitat; Conservation comes first--it must be the primary goal at any great ape site and tourism can be a tool to help fund it; Great ape tourism should only be developed if the anticipated conservation benefits, as identified in impact studies, significantly outweigh the risks; Enhanced conservation investment and action at great ape tourism sites must be sustained in perpetuity; Great ape tourism management must be based on sound and objective science; Benefits and profit for communities adjacent to great ape habitat should be maximised; Profit to private sector partners and others who earn income associated with tourism is also important, but should not be the driving force for great ape tourism development or expansion; Comprehensive understanding of potential impacts must guide tourism development. positive impacts from tourism must be maximised and negative impacts must be avoided or, if inevitable, better understood and mitigated. The ultimate success or failure of great ape tourism can lie in variables that may not be obvious to policymakers who base their decisions primarily on earning revenue for struggling conservation programmes. However, a number of biological, geographical, economic and global factors can affect a site so as to render ape tourism ill-advised or unsustainable. This can be due, for example, to the failure of the tourism market for a particular site to provide revenue sufficient to cover the development and operating costs, or it can result from failure to protect the target great apes from the large number of significant negative aspects inherent in tourism. Either of these failures will have serious consequences for the great ape population. Once apes are habituated to human observers, they are at increased risk from poaching and other forms of conflict with humans. They must be protected in perpetuity even if tourism fails or ceases for any reason. Great ape tourism should not be developed without conducting critical feasibility analyses to ensure there is sufficient potential for success. Strict attention must be paid to the design of the enterprise, its implementation and continual management capacity in a manner that avoids, or at least minimises, the negative impacts of tourism on local communities and on the apes themselves. Monitoring programmes to track costs and impacts, as well as benefits, [is] essential to inform management on how to optimise tourism for conservation benefits. These guidelines have been developed for both existing and potential great ape tourism sites that wish to improve the degree to which their programme constributes to the conservation rather than the exploitation of great apes.
Download or read book Medical Tourism in Developing Countries written by M. Bookman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western patients are increasingly travelling to developing countries for health care and developing countries are increasingly offering their skills and facilities to paying foreign customers. The potential and implications of this international trade in medical services is explored in this book through analysis of the market.
Download or read book Tourism and Entrepreneurship written by Jovo Ateljevic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism and Entrepreneurship: International Perspectives provides an innovative, interdisciplinary approach. This book takes as its central theme the role of entrepreneurship in the context of regional, local and national tourism development. By engaging with top academics in both tourism and entrepreneurship this book delivers a cohesive, interdisciplinary examination of the most recent developments in both tourism and entrepreneurship. Several key themes are explored and articulated through the following concepts and issues: tourism, innovation and entrepreneurship; the role and nature of individual and collective entrepreneurship in different contexts; the role of tourism in responding to development opportunities created by global forces; and finally, issues associated with tourism strategies and policies. Divided into four parts, the book reflects on the most relevant areas of tourism entrepreneurship: * Understanding the conceptual basis of tourism entrepreneurship * Creative use of entrepreneurship and processes of social innovation * Tourism entrepreneurship mediating the global–local divide * Sectoral strategies and policy issues of tourism entrepreneurship Tourism and Entrepreneurship: International Perspective: * Explains the impact of tourism entrepreneurship on places and overall regional and destination development * Examines the role of the public sector in facilitating the need for sustainable tourism development * Examines the effects and implications of funding schemes and support programmes * Takes the owner, manager and entrepreneur as the starting point of analysis to explore specific issues * Allows practitioners and policy-makers to explore practical applications and best practice of theory through a diverse range of international case studies * Contributed to by an international team of leading scholars in tourism and entrepreneurship This book is a unique combination of theory, case studies and discussion highlighting the importance of entrepreneurial tourism activity for economic success. It is essential reading for students and researchers in both tourism and entrepreneurship.
Download or read book The contribution of services to development and the role of trade liberalisation and regulation written by and published by Overseas Dev't Institute. This book was released on 2008 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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