The Changing Face of Healthcare: Understanding the Medical Loss Ratio
The Affordable Care Act created a new regulation designed to bring down the cost of healthcare through the use of a new medical loss ratio standard.
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Current Issue Artciles
Corporate Wellness
Marcia Reid: Bullying: What are the Myths Surrounding Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace?
Rose Gantner Ed.D.: Running a Wellness and Health Management Program? Where’s Your Certification?
Ria Duykers: Corporate Wellness & Executive Health Programs: What are the Benefits of Providing These Services?
Kathleen M. Gorman, MPH and Ross M. Miller, MD, MPH: Relative Influence of Modifiable Health Risks on Employer-Related Outcomes
Corporate Wellness Magazin: In this issue, we wanted to highlight one of our 2011 Corporate Wellness Leadership awardees for their innovative wellness initiatives.
Jennifer Turgiss : Healthy Workplaces: Leading Organizations Get Ready for June’s National Employee Wellness Month
Column
Kevin L. Shrake, FACHE: Healthcare Reform: Using Rebates to Turn Bills into Cash
Manish Nachnani: Social Media Health Revolution
Michael A. Schroeder: Group Captives: An Appealing Alternative
Sibyl C. Bogardus, JD: Bronze to Platinum Health Plans: What Will It Mean?
Dr. Gene Lindsey: ACOs: Healthcare’s Best Hope
Self Funding
Brian Black: Health and Wellness: Five Apps That Will Help You Lose Weight
Dennis Toohey: Controlling Benefit Cost and Spending By Creating Your Own Marketplace
Thomas E. Dreisinger, PhD, FACSM: Chronic Low Back and Neck Pain: An Epidemic Out of Control
Ronald J. Ozminkowski, Ph.D., and Seth Serxner, Ph.D./MPH: Program Reporting: Using the Right Process to Tell the Story
Voluntary Benefits
CJ Scarlet and Shirlita McFarland: Situational Coaching Offers Lasting Impact
Doug Ross: Long-Term Care Insurance: Helping Others by Helping Yourself
Dr. David Stoneback : Voluntary Benefits as an Employee Protection Strategy
By: Jonathan Spero, M.D.: Transforming a Traditional Occupational Health Center into a Total Employee Health Cost Containment Center
Editorial
Jonathan Edelheit, Editor in Chief: “Raising the Bar”
Feature
Darwinism Effect – Survival of the Fittest for Employee Benefits Consultants
PPACA (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act), known by most in and out of the industry as “ObamaCare” is no longer something that agents can hope will not happen --- it is here, it has begun, and it is reality.
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The What, Why and How of Medical Loss Ratio
On November 22, 2010, The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the interim final regulation (IFR) regarding medical loss ratio (MLR) implementation for health insurance issuers.
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A ‘Boon’ for Consumers May be ‘Bane’ for Brokers & Producers NAIC Adopts Medical Loss Ratio Model Regulation
On Oct. 21, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) adopted a model regulation concerning the calculation of medical loss ratios (MLR) under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
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Health Care Reform and the Role of Wellness and Prevention
In 1735, Benjamin Franklin published a letter in The Pennsylvania Gazette, offering his now famous axiom,
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Learn the Ins and Outs of Healthcare Reform, Because it’s Here to Stay!
Some of you may be thinking, “Democrats lost control of the House, so I can stop worrying about healthcare reform, it will be repealed.”
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Medical Discount Network, a Viable Alternative
Obamacare is a frightening word for employers and many Americans.
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PHARMA REFORM AND WORLD TRADE
here is an industry that in the past has been more profitable than the commercial banking sector.
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AFFORDABLE HEALTH BENEFITS - A Thing of the Past?
In today’s radically changing healthcare industry, individuals and small employers have an almost impossible task of securing affordable healthcare.
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ICD-10 Benefits for Healthcare Providers
ICD-10 brings several benefit opportunities for healthcare providers across multiple categories which include Reimbursement,
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Top must-haves in your EMR budget and ways to finance them
If you’re like many, chances are you are either 1) building a roadmap for EMR or 2) satisfied with pilot results and wondering how to accelerate rollout in 2011.
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Healthcare Reform Starts With You
Enough of the rhetoric. It’s time to cut to the chase and talk about how reform starts with you.
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Musings of an Old World doctor about the New World healthcare marketplace.
“Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him work with his hands, so that your daily life wins the respect of others and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.
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