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Issue 4 : First Quarter 2010 |
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| Suggest a Topic: Have an area of interest to explore? Email us! |
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| Tell a Colleague: Forward this issue of Health Plan Economics |
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Contact Editor:
800.859.5119 x285 or send an email to
editor@hdminc.com |
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| You can stem the rising tide of employee health plan expense…two ways. |
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| According to a study released by Towers Perrin in the fall of 2009, health benefits will cost on average $10,000 per employee in 2010, an increase of six percent over 2009. What’s more, there’s no end in sight to the escalating cost of providing employees with health insurance. |
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| Healthcare Data Management, Inc. (HDM) is finding that more and more sponsors of self-funded plans – corporate, public sector and Taft-Hartley – are tired of going with the flow, and they’re taking steps to stem the rising tide of healthcare cost by cutting out the wasted expense.… read more> |
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| Results of health plan audit study presented at
2010 National Labor & Management Conference |
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| David McSweeney, COO of Healthcare Data Management, Inc. (HDM) and Ronald Klimberg, Ph.D., of the Saint Joseph’s University’s Haub School of Business in Philadelphia, presented the results of a study commissioned by HDM to determine the relative effectiveness of two different ways to find the wasted expense in self-funded employee health plans at the National Labor & Management Conference on February 13. |
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| The presentation titled, Health plan auditing: a topic we should think more about, detailed the reasons why Taft-Hartley, corporate and government self-funded health plans need to audit and the types of audits they have available to them to review paid medical and prescription drug claims … read more> |
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HDM to present results of health plan audit study at SALGBA Annual Conference
Healthcare Data Management, Inc. (HDM) has been invited to the Annual Conference of the State and Local Government Benefits Association (SALGBA) on April 20, 2010 in Indianapolis to present the results of the study Health Plan Auditing: 100-Percent-of-Claims vs. Random-Sample Audits – Look at What You’re Missing. |
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| The presenters will be James Herrington, HDM’s Chief Marketing Officer, and George P. Sillup, Ph.D., M.S., from the Haub School of Business at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, who conducted the study with his colleague, Ronald Klimberg, Ph.D... read more> |
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