Should employers offer wellness and prevention programs like worksite-based health coaches, gyms, diet information, health fairs, blood tests, excercise classes, tobacco cessation courses and wellness screenings? If you think so, do you also believe that employers should incent or reward employees that participate in these programs? Should rewards also be made available for […]
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Martin Trussell is the author of The Health Plan Innovation Blog
I wrote recently about an innovative suite of health plans being offered by UnitedHealthcare that feature unique services to enhance the health and well-being of Spanish-speaking individuals. PlanBien incorporates linguistically and culturally relevant health information and customer service programs into its plan designs […]
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Time moves quickly inside the Beltway. It was just last week that Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, told a press briefing that Congressional leaders “will get to this a little later,” referencing the creation of any new government-run insurance program.
Apparently “a little later” was yesterday when Senator Charles […]
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Health care reform is gaining even greater urgency thanks to a highly informative release of a Health Affairs web exclusive written by actuaries from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services. They’ve have two numbers that are driving reform: 2.4 trillion and 6.2%. The former is attracting a lot of attention. The […]
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Clearly the most innovative move made so far in this very young year by a health plan has to been the decision of the Hawaii Medical Service Association, the state#8217;s Blue Cross-Blue Shield licensee, to make the Internet version of the house call available to everyone in the state.
American Well, a Web service […]
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Washington, DC - I’m going to be attending the 2008 5th annual World Health Care Congress for three days starting tomorrow. I’ll be blogging here as well as sharing interesting insights from the speakers on Twitter. The who’s who of healthcare officialdom will be in town including folks like George P. Shultz, former […]
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