Tag: Healthcare

December 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich will ask federal officials to designate his state as the first...

December 19, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Boston's mayor, undeterred by the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) warnings to the contrary,...

December 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Burlington, Vermont's mayor has unveiled a plan to reimport prescription drugs from Canada for city...

December 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Customer service and technical support operations continue to be burdened with tight budgets and salaries...

December 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Having a certified public accountant (CPA) license is no small thing when it comes to...

December 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Aetna is offering a new portfolio of preferred provider organization (PPO) health plans for small...

December 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health-care spending growth for privately insured Americans during the first half of 2003 slowed to...

December 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Watson Wyatt Worldwide has tapped Ted Chien as global director of group and health care...

December 10, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Non-qualified deferred compensation plans (NQDC) continue growing in popularity for their additional retirement planning opportunities...

December 10, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pretty soon, the train of local and state government officials vowing to import prescription drugs...

December 9, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The city of Boston is apparently jumping on the Canadian prescription drugs bandwagon.

December 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health insurers, Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO) and third-party administrators (TPA) are forecasting employer's health-care costs...

December 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Medco Health Solutions Inc., which manages pharmacy benefit plans, reported that a West Virginia judge...

December 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though the annual change in average total health benefit cost was up 10.1% in...

December 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While the rate of health-care cost hikes is expected to slow somewhat in 2004, prescription...

December 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As another year of double-digit health-care cost increases loom, plan sponsors are employing a variety...

December 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Benefit costs continue to rise, but they are a smaller proportion of the total package...

November 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich wants state health care programs to remove from their preferred prescription...

November 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Among the many changes arising from the Medicare reform bill are developments that will mean...

November 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to cut costs from the state's budget, North Dakota is considering turning...