Archive for General
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NLRB, HIPAA, IBT and PepsiCo – Duking it out over Incentives
Ok, so maybe I got a little carried away with the abbreviations and initials, but it was so darned tempting! The thing is, apparently the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) has now involved the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in a dispute with PepsiCo over financial "penalties" b...
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The Law and On-site Clinic Development
Due to copyright requirements, we can't excerpt the article here, but we can point you to it. "Legal Considerations When Implementing On-Site Clinics" on the web site, http://ebn.benefitnews.com/news/on-site-clinic-fiduciary-liability-2721550-1.html. Worth the read, particularly if you are n...
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IRS Update on W-2 Reporting on Healthcare Benefit Costs
Here's a link for all of you on the latest "clarification" on reporting the cost of benefits you are providing to your employees. We are not attorneys, so we won't comment on what this all means - but wanted to make the publication directly available to all of you providing on-site benefits to you...
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City of Lexington Opens On-Site Clinic
Marathon Health was awarded the contract for this clinic last year, but the clinic itself just recently opened. Interestingly, the medical director for the new facility is Dr. David French (formerly of Toyota). Recruitment of primary care providers is tough these days, but getting one with on-si...
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Johns Hopkins and Pepsico Partner-up for Improved Quality & Price Stability
It was announced this week (December 8, 2011) that PepsiCo has entered into an agreement with Johns Hopkins (brokered by Mercer) to allow employees and dependents (of which PepsiCo has about 250,000) to have certain cardiac and complex joint surgeries done for a specified bundled payment. The paym...
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MBGH Provides Tips to Improve Employee Health
The Midwest Business Group on Health is offering guidance to employers based on a five-year study, "Identifying the Triggers and Barriers to Engaging Employees in their Health Benefits and Wellness Programs." Those recommendations include "Consider(ing) the company's culture," including both "De...
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Care Continuum Alliance Sponsors New Blog
Care Continuum Alliance announced a new blog, called HealthSmarts. The blog was started in early August and hopes to provide a ".. credible, trustworthy community for poeple in our industry." We have had really good luck with articles, webinars, etc. provided by the Care Continuum Alliance i...
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Disney Medical Officer Receives Recognition
Walt Disney Parks & Resorts has their own on-site clinic program, and it was announced this week that their Chief Medical Officer, Pamela Hymel, M.D. was recognized with the Global Leadership in Corporate Health Award by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the NBG...
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Health Insurance Costs UP 9+%
Many recent news articles are quoting this statistic with alarm. No kidding! Any way that one looks at the number or the graph, they see continuing decline of the health care value construct. If you want to go beyond the news clips and get some of the background data, go to the source - this ...
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NASCAR, On-site Clinics, and Medicine
Forbes had a recent article that we should all read and re-read about one of the key innovators in medicine, Dr. Harlan Krumholz of Harvard, labeling him as one of the most powerful doctors "you never heard of." We will pardon their misuse of the preposition at the end of their description, bu...