The Supposed Health Insurer Bailout!
As a professional who spends his entire career on healthcare issues, I get very annoyed when I read articles that put an extremely biased and misleading spin on the emerging healthcare reform...
View ArticleA Positive Comment (Finally) on Obamacare
Healthcare reform is certainly receiving its share of abuse. Whether the conversation is local or national, private or public, one is sure to hear how Obamacare is nothing but bad news — job...
View ArticleFederal Health Rule Hits Firms for Millions
America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) gather for their big meeting in Nashville this week, with many significant issues on the agenda, some of them headline news. For instance, industry insiders are...
View ArticleFirms Must Now Clean Up Health Plans
Businesses, brace yourself for health plan enforcement! With the Supreme Court’s much anticipated June 25, 2015, King v. Burwell decision dashing the hope that the Supreme Court would provide relief...
View ArticleMore Pressure to Protect Health Data
Health plans, insurers and other health plan industry service providers need to ensure that their Internet applications properly safeguard protected health information (PHI), based on a recent warning...
View ArticleWhat Will Workers Comp Be in 20 Years?
At the 67th annual SAWCA Convention, Frank Neuhauser, executive director of the Center for the Study of Social Insurance (CSSI) at University of California at Berkeley, opened his keynote by discussing...
View ArticleFraud: the Cost You Will Never See
Do you know one of the large drivers of your insurance costs may be something you will never see listed as a line item by your agent or insurer? This is not a hidden fee the industry masks. It is not...
View ArticleHealthcare Exchanges: Math Doesn’t Work
Employers of all sizes are rushing into healthcare exchanges these days — often after heavy prompting by their consulting firm or broker. Part of the expectation is that employers can cap their future...
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10 Most Dangerous Wellness Programs
If corporate wellness didn’t already exist, no one would invent it. In that sense, it’s a little like communism, baseball, pennies or Outlook. After all, why would any company want to purchase programs...
View ArticleEndangered Individual Health Market
And then there were none? The individual health insurance marketplace is endangered, and policymakers need to start thinking about a fix right now, before we pass the point of no return. Health plans...
View ArticleFlogging the Data Until It Confesses
Did you ever hear the joke where the boss says floggings will continue until morale improves? In healthcare, flogging the data until results improve or the data confesses is not uncommon. Too bad....
View ArticleHow to Push Back on Healthcare Premiums
If you are a CFO or HR professional reading this article, you are probably familiar with the typical renewal discussion with your employee benefits broker. It goes something like this: Broker: “Well,...
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