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In This Issue / Shares IPO watch Concentra, which is being spun out of hospital operator Select Medical (SM), is seeking to raise $585m in its initial public offering (IPO) [...]

Byline: Jay Greene Amazon and Crossover Health have opened two employee neighborhood health care clinics in Westland and Brownstown Township and plan to open a third on March 22 in [...]

Twenty years ago, as a light snow fell upon an industrial park in the Midwest, crews from four television stations trained their cameras on a procession of people over the [...]

Developing a workplace mental health checklist North American academics have developed a checklist to help line managers recognise changes in employees' work behaviour that may indicate they are struggling mentally. [...]

The relation between consumerism and the consumer-directed health plans are analyzed. The systematic steps to plan employee health benefit systems by consumer engagements are also explained in detail.

Employers are devoting a lot of time and resources to develop solutions for controlling spiraling health care costs, lost time, and reduced employee productivity. These solutions are often applied independently of one another. Work and health are often interconnected with elements of corporate culture, comprising employee motivation and expectations, the organization's benefits, corporate health and safety practices. Employers need o explore these elements to develop a comprehensive absence management plan that prevents productivity from going down.

Improved outcomes and lower costs will be the benefits of a company's belief that increased employee involvement in managing their health care under a customer- directed and innovatively designed health plan. The plan's core capabilities should enable members to make informed decisions with the help of access to tools and information. Consumer uoriented pharmacy programs leverage proven cost-containing management capabilities and support.

The relevance of employee healthcare benefit plans in a company is discussed. The design and implementation of healthcare benefit plans is presented in detail.

Disease management (DM) is emerging as a popular tool for employers to cut health care costs and boost the quality of care enjoyed by employees and their dependents. High-tech tools [...]

Last October, four major employers took an unusual step designed to slow the pace of health care cost increases: They offered to pay more than they're billed by New York [...]

Few benefits are as difficult to manage as health care. Employers want to control skyrocketing premiums. Employees want more coverage at less cost. And HR gets caught in the middle, [...]

Employers are embracing disease management (DM) programs to improve the health of their workers. DM can increase productivity and reduce medical insurance costs, both of which can have a dramatic [...]

In my discussions with general management, health and safety professionals, educators, and executives from the safety equipment industry, it has become clear that regulatory pressure (OSHA in the U.S.) is […]

Employers are redirecting their efforts in their search for purchasing quality and value in health care to extend access to care, remove improper and needless care, employ efficient medical resources and enhance patient treatments. Even though continuous quality improvement (CQI) has been used exclusively in other areas of operations, the tool can be used in the purchase of health care. The CQI approach may be employed in varying ways but there are basic principles that should be included. These are the Shewhart Cycle for continuous improvement and six of the Deming principles. Following a step-by-step process based on the CQI approach enables employers to appraise their own health care program, evaluate community care providers, develop a strategic health care plan, choose high-quality providers for the network of employers and implement changes to improve the current health care program., The cost of health care in the United States escalated throughout the 1980s, creating a financial burden that limited the profitability of most corporations and placed U.S. businesses at a [...]

It's workplace problem that -- in 10 years -- has gone from relative obscurity to account for half of all job-related illnesses in the U. S. What's more, it's laced […]

Byline: Rebecca Vesely Employment-based health clinics are the latest casualty of the ongoing recession, as corporations push off plans to open on-site and near-site clinics and some existing clinics are [...]

Managing health plan expenses is hard enough when you are just dealing with those employees and dependents who are legitimately covered by your plan. But when you unwittingly pay for [...]

Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK WASHINGTON-A coalition of large U.S. employers is seeking to reduce the ranks of the uninsured through a program that will provide access to low-cost, group-rated health care [...]

CINCINNATI -- Supermarket workers last week agreed to a new, three-year labor contract with Kroger in its headquarters market here that calls for employees to begin contributing to their health [...]

It's tough being a small business and providing health coverage. When your health care insurance premiums skyrocket, what can you do? Self-insure. No, you're too small. Try disease management. No, [...]

Before employees can become better health care consumers, they need to know a lot more about health care itself, a government study group has found. Health illiteracy can lead to [...]

Kelsey-Seybold Clinic has announced a new contract with NASA-Johnson Space Center to provide occupational medicine, occupational health and test support programs at Johnson Center, Ellington Field, Sonny Carter Training Facility [...]

Learn how to identify the health promotion needs in your company and develop a cost-effective wellness program. Jane Miller has a greater appreciation for her company's health promotion program these […]