Insurance

Magazine articles on HMO's and other insurance companies.

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Financial Planning September 1, 2007 Bob Veres	New Life for Life Insurance For the first time, fee advisors have access to products designed specifically for them, complete with transparency and minimal costs. Their response could change the industry.
Financial Planning September 1, 2007 Frank O'Connor	Gaining Ground Variable annuity sales are up, but are the total sales numbers misleading?
Managed Care August 2007 Frank Diamond	Employers Roll Up Their Sleeves No longer passive, companies are working in a variety of ways to improve employees' care. Preventive programs cost money up front, but can cut overall treatment costs to insurers by 30 percent or more, yet few insurers pay for preventive care.
Managed Care August 2007 Lola Butcher	Evidence-Based Medicine Is Not Enough Although EBM is only just getting started, many people are looking beyond evaluating treatments head to head and considering cost as well, although that raises political difficulties.
Managed Care August 2007	Consumer-Directed Health Plans: Built to Last or Designed to Fail? A point-counterpoint debate about the effect of CDHPs on overall health and health care costs.
Managed Care August 2007 John Marcille	Are Purchasers Now The Ones With the Vision? Employers have been doing much more to improve worker health.
Managed Care August 2007	E-mailing Doctors Desirable for Those with Comorbidities Patients who have multiple comorbidities and who take multiple medications may benefit most from a secure e-mail messaging system, according to a study.
Managed Care August 2007	Incentive Formularies Have Minimal Effect A brief look at the effect of changes in drug benefit design on pharmaceutical use and spending.
Managed Care August 2007	Health Coverage at Work on the Decline The likelihood of families having job-based insurance varies significantly with family income.
Managed Care August 2007	Headlines On Deadline ... A survey finds that many employees struggle with basic health benefit terms... Old matches new when it comes to oral diabetes drugs...
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