Business & Health

View more issues:

Articles in April, 1994 issue of Business & Health

• 3 strategies for managing retiree costs: employers are using point-of-service plans, flexible benefits, and Medicare-risk HMOs - health maintenance organizations
  by Norma Harris
• Raising the health status of HMO members: several HMOs are using a statistical model to measure access, morbidity, and utilization - includes analysis of how Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska, Samaritan Health Plan and Harvard Community Health Plan a
  by Manon Spitzer
• Why we need quality care nationwide: every reform plan should aim to eliminate inappropriate care - Perspective - Column
  by Steven R. Baker
• Helping to eliminate stress in the workplace; depression may not be directly caused by stress, but stress can be a contributing factor - Special Report: Helping Employees Overcome Depression
• Is coverage for experimental medical care fair? - News & Trends
• How providing more care costs less; Johns Hopkins' managed care plan offers prompt access to high-quality treatment and, after the first 18 months, reduced costs by 31% - Johns Hopkins Institutions' self-insured workers' compensation insurance program - C
  by Dan Wise
• Florida mandates managed workers' comp; backed by state insurance studies documenting cost savings, employers must have a managed care program in place for workers' comp by 1997 - State Report - Column
  by David Kohn
• Employers take action in the fight against depression; imaginative new programs begun by U.S. businesses are helping depression sufferers get the treatment they need - includes related information on identifying a depressed employee and using an employee
• Congress forges compromise for small employers - healthcare reform negotiations - News & Trends
• Safety in numbers: employers that join workers' comp insurance pools reap the benefit of reduced premiums and safer workplaces
  by Vera Tweed
• Weighing the value of prevention: the Bay Area Business Group wants to encourage employees to select health plans based on their prevention efforts - Bay Area Business Group on Health - Coalition Report - Column
  by Dan Wise
• Getting help can be the biggest challenge; despite the existence of effective treatments, too few people are getting the help that is available - Special Report: Helping Employees Overcome Depression
• The quandary of retiree coverage: Clinton wants the federal government to pay for early retiree coverage
  by Steven Findlay
• Domestic partner benefits are catching on … slowly; employers' experiences show providing benefits for domestic partners costs no more than doing do for heterosexual married couples
  by Aurora Mackey
• Have PPOs lost the right to choose? - preferred provider organizations under Bill Clinton's healthcare reform - Law Report - Column
  by Michael A. Dowell
• New depression treatments are extremely effective - use of medications and psychotherapy - includes related information on depression myths - Special Report: Helping Employees Overcome Depression
• No employer mandate? 21 million uninsured - Employee Benefit Research Institute report on healthcare reform proposals - News & Trends
• Pulling together: by buying in groups, employers are changing how health care is delivered in many markets - healthcare reform - Cover Story
  by Monica Battagliola
• The ugly politics of health reform: with typical pettiness and posturing, Congress is struggling with one of its biggest opportunities in decades - Washington Memo - Column
  by Steven Findlay
• The consequences of depression: the prevalence and cost of depression are beginning to attract attention - includes related information on publication from Agency for Health Care Policy & Research - Special Report: Helping Employees Overcome Depression
  by Rita Shoor