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Health Plans Improving Data Collection to Curb Disparities in Care
...More than half of the 88.1 million enrollees whose health plans responded to the survey, 53.5%, are covered by plans that collect data on race and ethnicity. --Of the health plans ...
Source: BestWire   Date: June 1, 2004
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Canadians Wouldn't Trade Their Health Plan for Cash, Survey Says
...Sponsors have either kept the status quo, or made minor changes." Sarah Beech, benefits practice leader at Hewitt Associates in Toronto, pointed out that coverage maximums in ...
Source: BestWire   Date: May 14, 2004
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Insurers Do Well in Customer-Satisfaction Survey
Customer Satisfaction Index. The index, which is produced quarterly by a partnership of the University of Michigan Business School, the American Society for Quality and CFI Group, ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 25, 2004
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Number of Employed Uninsured Higher Than Expected in South Carolina
Viki Fox, the insurance department's project manager. "The biggest surprise," was discovering that efforts to address the uninsured needed to move less toward subsidizing the ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 20, 2004
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Aon Study: Professional Liability Claims Up 9.7% a Year
Aon Actuarial and Analytics Practice. The marketplace is focused on premiums, but the results of this study show that claims activity is a significant contributor to the recent ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 27, 2004
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Some Health Plans' Changes Tighten Access to Allergy Drugs
Asthma and Allergy Foundation. "Rather than just take it from anecdotal stories from patients, we wanted to get a cleaner, more scientific look at what was happening and a lot of ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 8, 2004
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Report: Insured Blacks, Latinos More Likely to Find Prescriptions Too Costly
Center for Studying Health System Change. Among adults ages 18 to 64, almost one in five blacks, or 20%, and one in six Latinos, or 16%, didn't buy at least one prescription drug ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 30, 2003
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Study Finds Companies Passed More of Health-Care Hikes to Employees in 2003
Mercer Human Resource Consulting. A year ago, employers faced an underlying increase in health-care costs of 14% for 2003, but they made significant changes to benefit-plan designs ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 9, 2003
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Broker Survey: Employers Redesign, Don't Drop Increasingly Costly Group Health Plans
Employee Benefits Market Survey. Even greater premium hikes, in the 20% to 30% range, were reported for 30% of small and 11% of medium-size accounts seeking group health coverage ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 13, 2003
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American Workers Choose Health Benefits Over More Money
United States between July 22 and Aug. 12. People chose benefits over salary even when the question was asked in a different way, said Leonie Huddy, director of the research center ...
Source: BestWire   Date: August 20, 2003
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Study:Consumer-Driven Health Plans Will Change Health Care as Much as HMOs Did
... United States, the biggest in more than 10 years. Of the 100 chief financial officers that responded, 95 expected increases higher than 10%, and more than 70 of the respondents ...
Source: BestWire   Date: May 27, 2003
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Georgia Physician Survey Called on Target, But Lacking Answers
Medical Society of Georgia. "There's no surprise there for us." A survey by the Georgia Board for Physician Workforce showed an estimated 2,800 practicing Georgia physicians would ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 30, 2003
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Georgia Physician Survey Called on Target, But Lacking Answers
Medical Society of Georgia. "There's no surprise there for us." A survey by the Georgia Board for Physician Workforce showed an estimated 2,800 practicing Georgia physicians would ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 30, 2003
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Georgia Doctors Plan to Cut Back Services Amid Liability Crisis
Physician Workforce, told BestWire. "Radiologists are saying about 50% of their exposure to suits is in mammographies--from failure to diagnose breast cancer--but it is only 5% of ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 28, 2003
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Report: Managed Care Plans Face a 'Perfect Storm'
Conning Research & Consulting. "We're at about 41 million uninsured in this country right now, and what's scary about that is that about 10 million are people who do have health ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 27, 2002
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Survey: Fleet Reserve Association Concerned About Pay, Health Care
Fleet Reserve Association, according to a recent survey. A total of 72% of the participants selected pay or health care as their top quality-of-life concern, and nearly 81% said ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 29, 2002
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Ohio HMOs Lost Members, Money Over 18-Month Period
Medicare and Medicaid plans. During the period, from Jan. 1, 2000, to July 1, 2001, Ohio HMOs collectively lost $66 million, although a few plans accounted for a large share of ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 4, 2002
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Health Insurance Executives Say Industry Isn't Ready to Take on Challenges
...Towers Perrin and director of the survey, said in a statement. The survey findings indicate that health insurers' difficulties will only be increased by their lack of preparation ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 28, 2001
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Consultants: Employers' Health-Care Costs to Rise 14% in 2002
Health-care costs for large employers will increase by an average of 14% next year, the third straight year of double-digit increases, according to a survey by health care ...
Source: BestWire   Date: November 6, 2001
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NCQA Finds That Preventive Health Care Is Improving
The National Committee for Quality Assurance, in its fifth managed-care report, notes that health plans have achieved significant gains in all key areas of care and ...
Source: BestWire   Date: September 10, 2001
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