Tag: Healthcare

June 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Under severe cost pressure because of the lagging economy, companies are focusing more closely than...

June 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Benefit costs are up, and most employers are cutting back on most, but not all,...

June 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) rates continue to be above the double-digit mark for 2004 (17.7%),...

June 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Salary increase budgets are averaging 3.5% for 2003, the first time in 10 years these...

June 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Salary budgets are averaging 3.5% in 2003, significantly lower than the 4.1% projected earlier and...

June 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 13% to 16% projected rise in the cost of health benefit in 2004 is...

June 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A draft contract with the HMO networks that provide health insurance coverage to the 1.2...

June 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies relocating employees to Tokyo are going to have to pay a pretty penny, after...

June 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Private industry employer compensation costs averaged $22.37 per hour in March 2003, while state and...

June 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The rising tide of prescription drug costs may be beginning to ebb, as growth in...

June 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The relentless growth in US health care expenditures eased a bit last year with a...

June 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US workers now rate long-term care coverage as high as a group life policy when...

June 6, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Four out of 10 Americans would jump into a Consumer Directed Health (CDH) plan to...

June 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies are declaring a mulligan on executive golf and club memberships.

June 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The costs of complying with new federal medical information privacy laws won't be as high...

June 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees injuring themselves while at home and "off-the-clock" are creating a $38-billion a year financial...

June 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) HMO premiums, long considered a bellwether for health...

May 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The increasing negotiating power of health care providers, escalating demands for services and the lessening...

May 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The US Department of Labor (DoL) has proposed new rules to clarify the requirements for notices...

May 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Consumer-driven health care may be on the lips of many plan sponsors these days, but...