Posts Tagged “Employers”
ShowHide CommentaryEmployment-Based Health Insurance
by Kevin Roche on Friday, April 12, 2013
A Robert Wood Johnson report describes the ongoing decline in employment-based health insurance, driven by ongoing large premium increases and exacerbated by general declines in the work population resulting from the last recession.
Tags: Employers, Health Insurance
ADP Survey of Large Employers
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Many large employers may consider shifting more employees to part-time status as a result of the implementation of the reform law, according to a survey by ADP, and they may take other actions to minimize their costs under the law.
Tags: Employers, Health Care Costs, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance
ACA Impact on Business
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, October 24, 2012
A new report from the Urban Institute examines the controversial issue of the impact of the Patient Protection Act on businesses of various sizes, showing that for small businesses it may reduce cost, it likely increases the cost for mid-sized ones and is neutral to large companies.
Tags: Employers, Health Care Costs, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance
2012 Potpourri XXX
by Kevin Roche on Friday, October 12, 2012
Another luminescent Potpourri, focusing on the ACA’s high-risk pool plan; controlling health spending in Massachusetts; what components of EHRs and HIEs may control costs; another survey of employers and dealing with hospital pricing power.
Tags: EHRs, Employers, Health Care Costs, Health Care Quality, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, HIT, Hospital
AON Employer Survey
by Kevin Roche on Monday, August 27, 2012
AONHewitt has released its 2012 Health Care Survey, which largely reviews employer attitudes and actions toward health care coverage. The impacts of the health reform law are obviously foremost on companies’ agendas, with cost increases being the biggest challenge and one that is really unaddressed by the reform law.
Deloitte Employer Survey
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Deloitte surveyed a number of employers for their views on the US health care system. Most feel the system needs substantial improvement, particularly in regard to costs and most view the Affordable Care Act as a bad start to fixing the problems.
2012 Potpourri XVI
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, May 5, 2012
This edition of our data-packed Potpourri focuses on hospital readmissions, use of computer physician order entry systems, what employers will do after 2014 when all of the health law kicks in, and hospital pay-for-performance programs.
Tags: Employers, Health Insurance, Health Insurance Exchange, HIT, Hospital, Hospital Readmissions, Pay For Performance
2012 Potpourri X
by Kevin Roche on Sunday, March 25, 2012
Spring is in the air but take a few minutes to refresh with our latest Potpourri, which includes the Congressional Budget Office’s latest health reform projections, ER use by those with Medicaid or private insurance coverage, the effect of selective outcomes reporting in research, an AonHewitt survey of employers on exchange use, another CBO report on employer incentives for use of TriCare and physician costs to comply with quality mandates.
Tags: Care Management, Comparative Effectiveness, Consumers, Employers, Health Care Costs, Health Care Quality, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Exchanges, Medicaid, Physicians
CBO Examines Health Insurance/Labor Market Relationship
by Kevin Roche on Monday, August 10, 2009
The Congressional Budget Office has another useful report looking at the impacts of changes in health insurance on employment.
Tags: Employers, Health Insurance
Health Care, Small Business and Jobs
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Health care costs can limit small business growth, stunting a major source of new jobs.
Tags: Employers, Health Care Costs, Workplace