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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Health plan costs - managed care Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines [Guidance Overview] Balance Billing Practices May Constitute Breach of Contract Private Health Insurance: Research on Competition in the Insurance Industry (PDF) New York Laws Increase State COBRA Period and Age for Dependent Health Insurance Coverage (PDF) Consumer Driven Health Plans Cover More Employees than HMOs, According to Survey Results GAO Study Describes Cost-Sharing Requirements and Dollar Limits Under Federal Health Plan for Expensive 'Speciality' Drugs Number of HMOs as of July 2008 Waste-Reduction Strategies Can Improve Health Care Quality With Reduced Costs Impact of Two Employer-Sponsored Population Health Management Programs on Medical Care Cost and Utilization (PDF) Report on California Health Plans and Insurers [Guidance Overview] Hospital Not Entitled to Notification That Participant Was in COBRA Election Period [Opinion] Alain Enthoven Responds on Reform of the Dutch System Insurers Hire Radiology 'Benefits Managers' to Vet Scanning The Changing Effect of Managed Care on Physician Financial Incentives Healthier Consumers, Customers and Communities: The Hannaford Dynamic (PDF) Fight Back When Your Health Plan Says No Patients Suffer As Care, Coverage Limits Collide; Physicians Say Insurers Intrude on Treatment Insurers Using Radiology Benefit Managers To Cut Down on Unnecessary, Costly Imaging Procedures [Opinion] Health Insurance Companies and the Managed Care Roller Coaster Mercer's HRadio Podcast, July 15, 2008 Graphs Show HMO Rate Increases by Region (PDF) 2009 HMO Cost Hikes Down from 2008 Quality Monitoring and Management in Commercial Health Plans (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Futility Doctrine Applied in Aid of Class Action Claims Against HMO Defendants [Opinion] Healthcare Reform -- Nobody's Asking the Hardest Question: Who Gets Care and When High Healthcare Costs Caused in Part by Power of Healthcare Systems, Wisconsin Study Says Summary of the Colorado Managed Care Review 2007 [Guidance Overview] HMO Loses Third Party Beneficiary Contract Dispute With Health Care Providers Shepherding Major Health System Reforms: A Conversation With German Health Minister Ulla Schmidt (PDF) A Living Model of Managed Competition: A Conversation With Dutch Health Minister Ab Klink (PDF) 'Medical Home' Concept Embraced by IBM and Other Employers [Opinion] Bars to Managed Care Lawsuits - A Historic Review Proposal Could Lift Fee Limits Imposed on HMOs by State of California Health Insurance & Managed Care Compilation of Statistics and Articles Updated March 3 Adviser Sheds Light on PBM Conflicts of Interest Adviser Sheds Light on PBM Conflicts of Interest Conversations on The Changing Face Of Managed Care: Insights from Managed Care Magazine's Podcast Series (PDF) Wal-Mart Signals Its Move Into the PBM Industry; Analysts Have Mixed Reactions Healthcare Data Pooling: Coming Soon to a Community Near You? California Regulators Faulted for Altering State Law on HMO Guidelines Total Health Management Strategies and Success Factors (PDF) CMS Outlines Value-Based Healthcare Purchasing Program More Health Insurers Adopt Doctor Ranking Model Seven Ways to Lower Benefit Costs Without Decreasing Coverage UK Fat Patients Claim Discrimination Conversations on the Changing Face of Managed Care: Insights from the 2006–2007 Podcast Series (PDF) Health Care Vendor Summits Promote Integration of Services (PDF) Managed Care Contract Gives Rise to 'Independent Legal Duty' Which Survives ERISA Preemption Self-Insured Employers Must Hold Service Providers' Feet to the Fire Study Shows Active Company Health Plan Managers Enjoy Lower Cost Increase New Products that Combine an HRA with an HMO Are Gaining Traction in California Pharmacist-Coordinated Health Management Delivers ROI (PDF) Companies Adopt Financial Incentives for Doctors Managing Health Care Cost and Quality Through Predictive Data Analytics (PDF) 2007 SHPS Health Practices Study: What Every Self-Insured Employer Should Know (PDF) 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. But BenefitsLink is not the author or publisher of those linked pages (except as expressly indicated). You should contact directly the author of any such linked pages for copyright or other information about their contents. Webmaster: Dave Baker (click)   ·   © 2009 BenefitsLink.com, Inc. (contact the webmaster for reprint permission)   ·   Linking: Feel free to link directly to this page, even without specifically crediting BenefitsLink ® as its source. Glad you're here!   ·   Privacy Policy