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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Health plan costs - disease management Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines Specialty Drug Spending Accounted for 20% of Total U.S. Drug Expenditures in 2009 How Employers Can Address Challenges of Health Care Cost Containment Potential Savings Through Prevention of Avoidable Chronic Illness Among CalPERS Active Members Text of GAO Report Estimating Number of Americans with Pre-Existing Health Conditions at 36 Million to 122 Million Performance Improvement in Health Care Think Tank Proposes Plan to Improve Care for the Chronically Ill, Reduce Health Spending International Perspectives on Patient Engagement: Results from the 2011 Commonwealth Fund Survey The High-Value Health Care Project: Building an Infrastructure for Performance Measurement and Reporting States Target Chronic Disease to Trim Health Care Costs [Opinion] Will Health Reform Provide Coverage for Eating Disorders? PPACA Commissions Rule Sparks Lobbying Push by Brokers The Care Coordination Imperative: Responding to the Needs of People with Chronic Diseases When It Comes to Disease Management, Science Defies Logic [Guidance Overview] Final Regulations Ease SBC Compliance Duties [Guidance Overview] Effect of New Michigan Health Insurance Claims Assessment Act on Group Health Plans [Opinion] Living Well with Chronic Illness: A Call for Public Health Action [Opinion] Cleveland Clinic: 'Why We Won't Hire Smokers' [Opinion] It Takes a CEO to Save the U.S. Health Care System Financial Incentives Raise Value-Based Insurance Design Program Stakes [Guidance Overview] Health Reform: Fine-Tuning the Medical Loss Ratio Rules Four Ways to Create an HIV/AIDS Inclusive Workplace Eating Disorders a New Front in Health Insurance Fight Medical Benefits to Manage Chronic Disease or Aid Recovery Economics Favor Retaining Health Coverage in Large Employer Plans, According to Benfield Report Pathways to Managing Cancer in the Workplace (PDF) 10 Tips for a Successful Chronic Care Management Program Health Care Payment Reform: Analysis of Models and Performance Measurement Implications National Business Group on Health Targets Cancer in the Workplace Study Proves That Online Chronic Condition Program Offers Patients a Return on Investment and Enhances Ability to Self Manage Health Conditions 'Crowdsourcing' Offers New Way for Doctors to Seek Treatment Advice Engaging Large Employers Regarding Evidence-Based Behavioral Health Treatment [Guidance Overview] HHS Releases Further Guidance on ERRP and Allows Plan Sponsors to Submit Early Retiree Lists (PDF) [Guidance Overview] New Informal Guidance Issued on Various Health Reform Mandates For Chronic Care, Try Turning to Your Employer Medical Home Approach to Care Can Improve the Sickest Employees' Health and Reduce Costs Innovations in Preventing and Managing Chronic Conditions Lines Blurring between Wellness and Disease Management Services Cancer Prevention and Care Management: Employer Opportunities [Opinion] Ten Small-Scale Health Insurance Reforms for Pre-Existing Conditions Value-Based Health Insurance Design Will Balance Costs for Drugs and Other Medical Services [Opinion] American Benefits Council/HR Policy Association Comments on Interim Final Rules on Genetic Information in Health Insurance Coverage and Group Health Plans (PDF) Estimates of Commercially-Insured Population at High Risk for Cardiovascular Events: Impact of Aggressive Cholesterol Reduction (PDF) Childhood Obesity Weighs on Benefit Budgets [Guidance Overview] GINA Interim Final Regulations: Wellness and Disease Management Programs Impacted The 'Next Big Thing' in Health Insurance Plan Design Offers Rich Benefits to Chronically Ill Members When HR Asks About Your Health Cisco Systems Links High Touch With Hi Tech to Engage Employees in Their Own Health Budgetary Effects of Prevention Programs Need Clinical Data Over a Long Time Period Employers Balance Disease Management and Wellness Efforts to Cut Costs Chronic Conditions Crank Up Health Costs Using Clinical Information to Project Federal Health Care Spending Study Raises Questions About Cost Savings from Preventive Care Healthcare Costs for Overweight and Obese Patients Grow Prevention Efforts Provide No Panacea on Health Costs Diabetes Disease Management Pilot Program Yields Big Cost Savings Integrated Health Care Can Improve Chronic Illness Treatment More Large Employers Offer Chronic Disease Management Programs to Reduce Health Care Costs Health Plans Use Variety of Strategies to Identify and Ensure Compliance Among Diabetics In 'Sobering' Finding, Care Coordination Doesn't Save Money Public Employers Focusing More on Disease Management, According to Survey Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. 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