Download or read book Innovations in Employment Based Health Benefits written by Tracey Young and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, there have been many employer-driven “innovations” in health benefit design, such as health reimbursement arrangements, value-based benefit design, medical homes, wellness programs, and others. All of these innovations have a common goal: to better manage spending on health care through consumer engagement tools or the use of incentives that change individual behavior. What do we know about the effectiveness of these innovations? In large part, very little independent research exists on their impact. Premiums by plan type can be compared, and the use of preventive services can be tracked; but reliable, unbiased information regarding the true impact of these programs is scarce. Nearly a hundred health policy experts, senior private-sector HR representatives, and insurance and health officials examined some innovative employer-driven programs during a daylong policy forum held by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) in Washington, DC, on Dec. 9, 2010. The discussion also considered the future of employment-based health programs in the wake of the November election results and enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). This paper summarizes the presentations and debate during that forum. The PDF for the above title, published in the April 2011 issue of EBRI Notes, also contains the full text of another April 2011 EBRI Notes article abstracted on SSRN: “Retirement Income Adequacy: Alternative Thresholds and the Importance of Future Eligibility in Defined Contribution Retirement Plans.”
Download or read book Examining Innovative Approaches to Covering the Uninsured Through Employer provided Health Benefits written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Employment and Health Benefits written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is unique among economically advanced nations in its reliance on employers to provide health benefits voluntarily for workers and their families. Although it is well known that this system fails to reach millions of these individuals as well as others who have no connection to the work place, the system has other weaknesses. It also has many advantages. Because most proposals for health care reform assume some continued role for employers, this book makes an important contribution by describing the strength and limitations of the current system of employment-based health benefits. It provides the data and analysis needed to understand the historical, social, and economic dynamics that have shaped present-day arrangements and outlines what might be done to overcome some of the access, value, and equity problems associated with current employer, insurer, and government policies and practices. Health insurance terminology is often perplexing, and this volume defines essential concepts clearly and carefully. Using an array of primary sources, it provides a store of information on who is covered for what services at what costs, on how programs vary by employer size and industry, and on what governments doâ€"and do not doâ€"to oversee employment-based health programs. A case study adapted from real organizations' experiences illustrates some of the practical challenges in designing, managing, and revising benefit programs. The sometimes unintended and unwanted consequences of employer practices for workers and health care providers are explored. Understanding the concepts of risk, biased risk selection, and risk segmentation is fundamental to sound health care reform. This volume thoroughly examines these key concepts and how they complicate efforts to achieve efficiency and equity in health coverage and health care. With health care reform at the forefront of public attention, this volume will be important to policymakers and regulators, employee benefit managers and other executives, trade associations, and decisionmakers in the health insurance industry, as well as analysts, researchers, and students of health policy.
Download or read book Examining Innovative Health Insurance Options for Workers and Employers written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Employee Benefits and the New Health Care Landscape written by Alan Cohen and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 International Book Awards Finalist in "Business and Management" Category We shop for everything else online...why not benefits? Using private benefit exchanges (a.k.a. “online benefits marketplaces”), employers can bring a consumer-centric online shopping experience to benefits. Alan Cohen, a benefits technology pioneer, details how these platforms can offer unprecedented flexibility and choice to employees, revolutionize the way employers attract and retain talent, strengthen cost control in an era of skyrocketing premiums, and promote much-needed innovation in the U.S. health care system. Discover How To Make sense of today’s challenging benefits landscape and plan breakthrough changes that have succeeded for thousands of employers of all sizes Leverage the lessons of the online shopping revolution to drive radical innovation Incorporate the 7 key pillars of a true private benefits exchange into your benefits mindset Gain indispensable practical insights from early adopters’ experiences Clarify the new roles of employers, HR, insurers, brokers, employees, and other stakeholders Accelerate your transition away from inefficient employer-managed plans Assess the ongoing impact of health care reform, public exchanges, health care consumerism, and other trends Alan Cohen created one of the first private exchange platforms and has pioneered this approach for more than a decade. Now, in a candid discussion of how the economic principles of choice, consumerism, and defined contribution are at work in an exchange environment, he breaks down the concept for HR professionals, entrepreneurs, brokers, insurers, health care reformers, policy makers, and employees. Cohen looks to social and economic implications to forge a future in which all eyes are on a new model of the consumer for the benefits age. With insights from industry veterans, Employee Benefits and the New Health Care Landscape brings a fresh perspective to the debate on health care and health insurance in America.
Download or read book Health Benefits at Work written by Mark V. Pauly and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999-06-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who really pays for health benefits? An accessible explanation of the economic theory behind this question
Download or read book Examining Innovative Health Insurance Options for Workers and Employers written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Employment based Health Benefits written by Paul Fronstin and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Future of the Public s Health in the 21st Century written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthrax incidents following the 9/11 terrorist attacks put the spotlight on the nation's public health agencies, placing it under an unprecedented scrutiny that added new dimensions to the complex issues considered in this report. The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century reaffirms the vision of Healthy People 2010, and outlines a systems approach to assuring the nation's health in practice, research, and policy. This approach focuses on joining the unique resources and perspectives of diverse sectors and entities and challenges these groups to work in a concerted, strategic way to promote and protect the public's health. Focusing on diverse partnerships as the framework for public health, the book discusses: The need for a shift from an individual to a population-based approach in practice, research, policy, and community engagement. The status of the governmental public health infrastructure and what needs to be improved, including its interface with the health care delivery system. The roles nongovernment actors, such as academia, business, local communities and the media can play in creating a healthy nation. Providing an accessible analysis, this book will be important to public health policy-makers and practitioners, business and community leaders, health advocates, educators and journalists.
Download or read book The Business of Healthcare Innovation written by Lawton R. Burns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second edition of a wide-ranging analysis of business trends in the manufacturing segment of the healthcare industry.
Download or read book Health Care Policy Reform in America Innovations from the States written by Howard M. Leichter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work tracks the role of the states in US health care policy reform. It reviews the challenges faced by the states in dealing with rising costs and looks at their policy competence and role in managed care, whilst focusing on the outcomes of policy reform in states such as Hawaii and Oregon.
Download or read book Expanding Employment based Health Coverage written by Sharon Silow-Carroll and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Examining Innovative Approaches to Covering the Uninsured Through Employer Provided Health Benefits written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining innovative approaches to covering the uninsured through employer-provided health benefits : hearing before the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions, Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, March 15, 2007.
Download or read book Health Reform in the 21st Century written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Employment Based Health Benefits written by Paul Fronstin and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The employment-based health benefits system established its roots many years ago. It was during World War II that many more employers began to offer health benefits. Recently, however, both the percentage of workers with employment-based health benefits and the comprehensiveness of such coverage have been declining. This paper examines recent trends in employment-based health benefits. It also considers the likely future of this important workplace benefit in light of shifts from defined benefit to defined contribution models of employee benefits and with regard to the implementation of health reform.
Download or read book A Look at Health Benefits and the Workforce written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creativity innovation and entrepreneurship in healthcare and service systems written by Fu-Sheng Tsai and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
