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HEALTH BENEFITS
Employers Reach Out to Children With Wellness Programs
By Jessica Marquez
With health care costs increasing, more employers are including children in their wellness initiatives.
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UNPREDICTABLE FUNDING
3 Million DB Participants in Frozen Plans
July 23, 2008 9:55 AM PT
Among pension plans surveyed, 23 percent involved a hard freeze, in which all future benefit accruals cease. Twenty-two percent involved a partial freeze.
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GOING ELECTRONIC
House Commerce Panel OKs Health IT Legislation
July 23, 2008 3:05 PM PT
The committee’s approval represents a milestone for a bill that faced stiff resistance. Patient advocates and interest groups raised fears about privacy violations related to the electronic sharing of medical information.
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Workforce Management editor John Hollon analyzes and comments on business, management and the art of leading a workforce.
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Looking Through Health Care Transparency
Recent years have witnessed important efforts to provide more and better cost and quality information to health care consumers—but promoting value in health care requires more than just transparency. Consumers need user-friendly access to all the information that matters—and some compelling reasons to use it.
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Tools and Resources
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Some programs, like an alternative work week and a compressed work week, are more effective than others at reducing absences.
Voluntary benefits build retention at little cost to employers. But the dizzying array of choices means that HR needs to do its homework and decide what benefits best serve its workforce.
Sample Forms can provide a helpful starting place and ideas on structure and content for an organization to design its own set of everyday documents.
Consumer-driven health plans aren’t quite flatlining, but their growth is extremely slow. The percentage of employees enrolled in a consumer-driven plan with an HSA or HRA rose from 3 percent in 2006 to just 5 percent in 2007. Employer adoption slowed in 2007, and will moderate again in 2008, according to a Mercer survey.
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