Health Benefit Plans, Employee - Statistics & numerical data
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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...

Employer-sponsored insurance, health care cost growth, and the economic performance of U.S. Industries.

Jun 2009 OBJECTIVE: To estimate the effect of growth in health care costs that outpaces gross domestic product (GDP) growth ("excess" growth in health care costs) on employment, gross output, and value added to GDP of U.S. industries. STUDY SETTING: We ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Health Benefit Plans, Employee - Statistics & numerical data'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Health insurance: why are more people uninsured now than in the past? The role of employer sponsored insurance. 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
• Diagnostic methodologies for chlamydia screening in females aged 15 to 25 years from private insurance claims data in the United States, 2001 to 2005. 29 Jun 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
• Employer-sponsored insurance, health care cost growth, and the economic performance of U.S. Industries. Jun 2009
• Consumer-driven health plans: impact on utilization and expenditures for chronic disease sufferers. 29 Apr 2009
• Consumer-directed health care for persons under 65 years of age with private health insurance: United States, 2007. 27 Feb 2009
• Access to prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries. 27 Feb 2009
• [Costs and range of health care consumption under general health insurance and sick leaves among patients with inflammatory bowel disease in chosen countries -- a literature review] 30 Dec 2008
• More nonelderly Americans face problems affording prescription drugs. 30 Dec 2008
• Maintaining health insurance during a recession: likely COBRA eligibility: an updated analysis using the Commonwealth Fund 2007 Biennial Health Insurance Survey. 30 Dec 2008
• Marital status is associated with health insurance coverage for working-age women at all income levels, 2007. 29 Nov 2008
• Massachusetts health reform: high costs and expanding expectations may weaken employer support. 29 Sep 2008
• The role of citizenship, employment, and socioeconomic characteristics in health insurance coverage among Asian subgroups in the United States. 29 Sep 2008
• Economic realities associated with diabetes care: opportunities to expand delivery of physical therapist services to a vulnerable population. 16 Sep 2008
• Steering patients to safer hospitals? The effect of a tiered hospital network on hospital admissions. 27 Aug 2008
• Employee choice of flexible spending account participation and health plan. 29 Jun 2008
• Body mass index and employment-based health insurance. 7 May 2008
• Health coverage of low-income citizen and noncitizen wage earners: sources and disparities. 30 Mar 2008
• Infertility coverage is good business. 23 Mar 2008

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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