All Articles In 'Employee Health Care'
Employer Sponsored Health Insurance: Changes in Health Premiums and Employee Contributions for Health Insurance
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released interesting new data on increases in premiums and employee contributions for employer-sponsored health insurance coverage (ESI) from 2001 to 2009. Types of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Coverage: [...]
Preventive Services: Understanding Preventive Health Services Covered under the Affordable Care Act
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), most health plans are now required to provide preventive services to their enrollees without any co-payments or other cost sharing. Over time, this is expected to significantly improve prevention and [...]
State Health Exchanges and Qualified Health Plans: Briefing for Health Plans
As part of health reform implementation, states will create a large and complex new marketplace for the buying and selling of health insurance coverage. Through State Exchanges, individuals and small businesses may buy federally defined benefit [...]
Wellness-Based Healthcare: Prevention, Intervention, and Innovation for Chronic Diseases
Creating a wellness-based healthcare system is the focus on a new series of articles published by American Health and Drug Benefits, a peer reviewed journal. They cover a wide spectrum of topics on how to build [...]
National Health Expenditures for 2009-2019: CMS Actuary Projections
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Office of the Actuary (CMS/OACT) has released its projections of U.S. health care spending for the ten years 2010 through 2019, with premliminary estimates of 2009 health spending. The [...]
Health Insurance Exchanges: How Two Proposals Differ, an Unexpected Complication, and What it All Means for Health Care Communications
Health Insurance Exchanges – either state-based exchanges favored by moderate Democrats and Republicans (reflected in Senate bill) or a national, federally-run exchange favored by liberal Democrats (version in the House bill) – are an essential component [...]
American Health and Drug Benefits: September – October 2009 Issue
Here are articles from the latest issue of American Health & Drug Benefits. AHDB is a peer-reviewed journal for 30,000 decision makers in health plans, PBMs, Medicare, Medicaid, and the pharma and biotech industries: Predictive and [...]
Stroke Prevention and Management: New Artices from Leading Experts
A series of new articles from the journal American Health and Drug Benefits address key issues in stroke prevention and management, with a special focus on transient ischemic attacks. A transient ischemic attack (TIA), a transient [...]
American Health & Drug Benefits: June-July 2009 Issue
Here are articles from the latest issue of American Health & Drug Benefits. AHDB is a peer-reviewed journal for 30,000 decision makers in health plans, PBMs, Medicare, Medicaid, and the pharma and biotech industries: June – [...]
Health Indicators: 20 Key Indicators of U.S. Health Care
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has identified 20 key indicators that together “reflect the overall health of the nation and the efficiency and efficacy of U.S. health systems.” Each of the 20 indicators can be readily [...]
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