Innovation is key to controlling health care costs, speakers say
Virginia’s Secretary of Health and Human Resources said he hears the same question wherever he goes. “The question I am asked most is … what are you going to do when the Supreme Court rules” on the federal health care overhaul, said William A. Hazel Jr., speaking at a health care conference in Richmond organized […]
Healthcare costs to rise 7.5 percent in 2013: report
(Reuters) – The cost of healthcare services is expected to rise 7.5 percent in 2013, more than three times the projected rates for inflation and economic growth, according to an industry research report released on Thursday. But premiums for large employer-sponsored health plans could increase by only 5.5 percent as a result of company wellness […]
Do wellness incentive plans really reduce costs?
Corporate America has jumped on the wellness trend with both feet, but is it a leap worth taking? Germany has more experience with wellness incentives, so researchers affiliated with the Commonwealth Fund looked there for clues about what effect wellness incentive plans could have in the U.S. Considering that federal health reform allows for the […]
