Selling and Marketing
Social Social Media Strategy: Being Social Is Serious Busin
If Facebook was a country, it would be the fourth largest in the world. Social networking is the fastest growing medium we have ever seen. The social web – Web 2.0 – has given rise to a new way of marketing: people are engaged in conversations online and markets have become conversations.
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US-Rx Care Successfully Combats
Pharmaceutical patent law is a complicated field that produces judgments with significant implications for consumers, providers, insurers and investors.
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Are Your Healthcare Costs in Roaming? Out-of-Network Claims May Cost More Than You Realize
Does this scenario sound at all familiar? You return home from a long day’s work and among your mail is a cell phone bill swelled three times its normal size and laced with roaming charges.
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Healthcare Reform: The Devil is in the Details
Most employers are scratching their heads trying to figure out what impact healthcare reform (aka the PPACA or the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) will have on their current health benefit plan and on their future obligations to provide insurance to their employees.
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Three Functional Capacity Evaluation Myths That Have Cost Your Company A Lot of Money
There are three popular myths in the field of functional assessment. The three types of testing related to these myths constitute the majority of the opportunities during an FCE to collect data which can actually be assessed objectively for validity of effort.
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THE SOCIETAL BENEFITS OF SUBROGATION
Subrogation is one of the oldest legal concepts in jurisprudence, having had its roots in Roman law. Under the reign of Emperor Hadrian (A.D. 177–A.D. 138), Roman law began to shape the building blocks of subrogation.
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Return-To-Work-After-Cancer Programs
The business world places a premium on reducing costs and productivity loss due to sick leaves. But when a leave of absence is cancer related, these same costs and losses can sky rocket for both employee and employer.
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Transparency in PBM Services… What value does it Bring?
Pharmacy Benefit Managers or PBMs offer sophisticated pharmacy services to the health care marketplace.
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BENEFITS CONSULTANTS RESPOND TO GROWING ELDERCARE NEEDS
The number of adults who are caring for an aging loved one has risen to over 43 million and those numbers are still rising with the onslaught of aging boomers. According to the 2006 study conducted by Met Life, over half of these caregivers are employed either full or part time.
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Do you have a seat at the Table?
I think this picture says a lot. What do you see? Some of you see an empty room, I see lost opportunity. In about 50 days one of the largest gathering of self funding professionals in the country will happen at the Self Funding Employer Association annual conference and in Los Angeles.
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Health Care Reform Review and Comm
I don’t eat breakfast much, but when I do, my favorite place is the Sandcastle in the Village on St. Simons Island, Georgia. However, every time I eat there, I have a dilemma.
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Companies of All Sizes Now Embrace Self-Funding Employee Benefit Plans
For many years, a self-funded employee benefit plan was an option that only made sense for large employers. Today, in the wake of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and market changes,
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