Insurance Benefits - Economics
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Monday, November 23, 2009

An employer perspective on annual employee and dependent costs for pediatric asthma.

30 Jul 2009 BACKGROUND: The burden of pediatric asthma on parents' health care costs is not well described. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate direct and indirect health care costs of employees with children with asthma (asthma cohort) compared with employees with children ... Read more...

Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA): preauthorization of durable medical equipment. Final rule.

29 Jun 2009 This document amends the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical regulations for the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) preauthorization section by increasing the dollar ceiling for purchase or ... Read more...

Cost, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of a collaborative mental health care program for people receiving short-term disability benefits for psychiatric disorders.

30 May 2009 OBJECTIVE: To examine the cost, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of a collaborative mental health care (CMHC) pilot program for people on short-term disability leave for psychiatric disorders. METHOD: Using a quasi-experimental design, the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Insurance Benefits - Economics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• An employer perspective on annual employee and dependent costs for pediatric asthma. 30 Jul 2009
• Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA): preauthorization of durable medical equipment. Final rule. 29 Jun 2009
• A rural-urban comparison of a building blocks approach to covering the uninsured. 30 May 2009
• Value based insurance design: maintaining a focus on health in an era of cost containment. 30 May 2009
• Cost, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of a collaborative mental health care program for people receiving short-term disability benefits for psychiatric disorders. 30 May 2009
• Inappropriate prescribing for osteoporosis. 2 May 2009
• State variations in the out-of-pocket spending burden for outpatient mental health treatment. 29 Apr 2009
• Starvation diet: coping with shrinking budgets in publicly funded mental health services. 29 Apr 2009
• Implementing mental health parity: the challenge for health plans. 29 Apr 2009
• The Massachusetts Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector: structure and functions. 29 Apr 2009
• Hazardous health plans: coverage gaps can leave you in big trouble. 29 Apr 2009
• Progressive or regressive? A second look at the tax exemption for employer-sponsored health insurance premiums. 29 Apr 2009
• Medicaid program; state flexibility for Medicaid benefit packages. Apr 2009
• Maximizing quality and value in Medicaid: using return on investment forecasting to support effective policymaking. 30 Mar 2009
• Early results from Thailand's 30 Baht Health Reform: something to smile about. 29 Mar 2009
• Protection planning: be prepared. 30 Jan 2009
• The potential premium range of risk-rating in competitive markets for supplementary health insurance. 4 Jan 2009
• Medicaid services. Issue brief. 3 Jan 2009
• Mandated benefits. Issue brief. 3 Jan 2009
• Medicaid eligibility. Issue brief. 3 Jan 2009

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Technical information about 'Insurance Benefits'

Definition: Payments or services provided under stated circumstances under the terms of an insurance policy. In prepayment programs, benefits are the services the programs will provide at defined locations and to the extent needed.

Descriptor UI: D007342

Alternative terms: Insurance Benefits; Benefit, Insurance; Benefits, Insurance; Insurance Benefit; Health Benefits; Benefit, Health; Benefits, Health; Health Benefit;

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

Tree Number: N03.219.521.576.130;

History Note: 78

Technical Notes: coord IM with specific type of insurance (IM) + geog if pertinent