Health Benefit Plans, Employee - Economics
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Health benefit costs and absenteeism due to insomnia from the employer's perspective: a retrospective, case-control, database study.

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: To objectively assess the economic impact of insomnia on direct medical and prescription costs and indirect absence-related salary replacement costs and on absences and to compare the prevalence and costs of comorbidities in employees ... Read more...

Failure to protect: why the individual insurance market is not a viable option for most U.S. families: findings from the Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey, 2007.

29 Jun 2009 Between 2001 and 2007, an increasing share of adults with private insurance--whether employer-based coverage or individual market plans--spent a large amount of their income on premiums and out-of-pocket medical costs, were underinsured, and/or ... Read more...

Comparison of health care use and costs in newly diagnosed and established patients with fibromyalgia.

22 Jun 2009 In 2004, the American Pain Society (APS) issued evidence-based fibromyalgia treatment recommendations. The objective of this claims database analysis is to describe prescription and medical use in patients with newly diagnosed and established ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Health Benefit Plans, Employee - Economics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Lessons for healthcare reform from the hard-won success of behavioral health insurance parity. 30 Aug 2009
• The regressivity of taxing employer-paid health insurance. 17 Aug 2009
• Why paying for health care reform is difficult and essential--numbers and rules. 3 Aug 2009
• Rising rates bring focus on self-insured plans. 30 Jul 2009
• Health benefit costs and absenteeism due to insomnia from the employer's perspective: a retrospective, case-control, database study. 30 Jul 2009
• The burden of health care costs for working families--implications for reform. 28 Jul 2009
• Failure to protect: why the individual insurance market is not a viable option for most U.S. families: findings from the Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey, 2007. 29 Jun 2009
• Comparison of health care use and costs in newly diagnosed and established patients with fibromyalgia. 22 Jun 2009
• The risks and costs of multiple-generic substitution of topiramate. 14 Jun 2009
• A win-win approach to financing health care reform. 8 Jun 2009
• Healthcare stalling in Motor City. GM's problems has healthcare revenue downshifting. 6 Jun 2009
• Employer-sponsored insurance, health care cost growth, and the economic performance of U.S. Industries. Jun 2009
• Chrysler retirees lose dental benefits; here's what to do. 30 May 2009
• The landscape in 2009: a conversation with Bruce C. Vladeck, by Birnbaum Michael. 30 May 2009
• Addressing health care market reform through an insurance exchange: essential policy components, the public plan option, and other issues to consider. 30 May 2009
• Feeling COBRA's bite. Insurers, employers could take big hit from subsidy. 16 May 2009
• Consumer-driven health plans: impact on utilization and expenditures for chronic disease sufferers. 29 Apr 2009
• Wealth, income, and the affordability of health insurance. 29 Apr 2009
• Financial penalties for the unhealthy? Ethical guidelines for holding employees responsible for their health. 29 Apr 2009
• Implementing mental health parity: the challenge for health plans. 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Health Benefit Plans, Employee'

Definition: Health insurance plans for employees, and generally including their dependents, usually on a cost-sharing basis with the employer paying a percentage of the premium.

Descriptor UI: D006264

Alternative terms: Health Benefit Plans, Employee; Employee Health Benefit Plans; CHAMPUS;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N01.824.417.700.325; N03.219.521.576.343.290; N04.452.677.800.325;

Online Note: search INSURANCE, HEALTH 1968-74

History Note: 91(75); was see under INSURANCE, HEALTH 1975-90

Technical Notes: specify geog if possible