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February 1 2023
CMS Threatens Citations for Workplace Safety Violations
Healthcare Risk Management
CMS is threatening Conditions of Participation penalties for hospitals over workplace safety. The agency is focused on workplace violence.
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January 18 2023
Male fertility benefits spread
Axios
Earlier this month, the benefits platform Carrot Fertility partnered with Health Transformation Alliance to become a preferred fertility benefits provider for some of America’s largest companies, including services for men.
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May 16 2022
Employer medical claims likely miss 75% of employee mental health issues
BenefitsPro.com
Uncaptured claims include patients that pay for services with cash, and employee assistance programs, where reporting is lax.
We have deduced that we had a mental health epidemic in the US before the pandemic. And employer medical claims likely miss more than 75% of employee mental health issues. Our mental health epidemic starts long before people are adults.
October 25 2021
Employer concern is rising over racial and ethnic disparities in health care
BenefitsPro.com
Like many Americans, business leaders consider health and health care equality a moral imperative. Employers are better positioned than most to know that resolving health disparities is essential for not only improving the health and well-being of their employees, but also for improving overall economic prosperity.
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September 27 2021
Coalition seeks more transparent pharmacy benefits managers
Modern Healthcare
The Coalition for PBM Reform wants to curb practices stakeholders claim lead to higher drug prices for patients and pharmacies. Several national organizations have established the Coalition for PBM Reform, which seeks to alter the way pharmacy benefit managers operate to better serve patients, pharmacies and businesses.
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September 22 2021
The Prime Effect: What Amazon Will Transform Next
WBUR
Amazon has utterly transformed — for better or worse — almost every business sector it’s entered, from retail to cloud computing. So where will the trillion-dollar corporation go next?
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September 21 2021
Ask these questions to get the most out of your healthcare data
Employee Benefit News
The demand for data-driven insights from healthcare price and utilization data has never been higher, as employers suffering from healthcare cost increases search for insights to help them reverse the trend.
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September 13 2021
Employers have the power to fix the U.S. health care system
BenefitsPro.com
Employers can play a pivotal role in solving seemingly intractable problems by joining forces, sharing best practices and aggregating data.
Whenever I ask a U.S. employer what’s wrong with health care in America, I get the same response: it costs too much and delivers too little.
Employers are positioned to know this better than anyone. About 158 million Americans get health insurance through their employers. This is just under half of the total U.S. population and more than three and a half times the number served by Medicare, the second largest source of U.S. health care coverage.
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