Archive for General
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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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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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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...
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Contracts and RFPs – Transforming Your Vision
OK, let's go out and address the grass issue by getting a "riding mower." The problem is that whatever you describe is what you will get if you use the request-for-proposal (RFP) approach. The RFP needs to be pretty specific if you want the end product to match your vision. If you have e...
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Retail Medicine Gains New Credibility with USA Today Article
The news here is not that the retail clinics are booming. The news is that it is considered news in one of the most important consumer outlets in the country (USA TODAY). An article in this publication, on a "big news" Monday is going to lend tremendous credibility to retail medicine. That's O...
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Integration is Disintegrating at the PBM/Pharm Level
Sometimes, just when everything seems to fit together, something unravels. This time it is a relationship between the two biggest purveyors of pharmacy products in the U.S. - Walgreens and Express Scripts. This is an issue that is one of primary concern to employers who have a contract with one ...
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The Book, the Blog, the Association
The National Association of Worksite Health Centers (NAWHC) is a new non-profit, employer-led organization focused on assisting public and private employers in getting the greatest return on their investment in on-site clinics, pharmacies and fitness and wellness centers. Formed by the non-profit Mi...
