Last year, Lafarge North America, a construction materialscompany with 15,500 employees, launched a major restructuring. The company hadto face up to an inevitable increase in the number of relocations. âWe began athree-month crash course to centralize our relocation policy,â says BobShepard, director of compensation.
Medical Cost Containment: A Microeconomic Approach. Anywhere from 900,000 to 1.6 million Americans travel to other countries annually for cosmetic procedures, dental surgery, and infertility treatments excluded from their insurance policies or subject to high copayments.
Funding ongoing Medicaid programs is one of the greatest challenges for states. In governorsâ proposed budgets for fiscal 2012, cost containment in Medicaid is a dominant theme.Medicaid spending is estimated at $354 billion in fiscal 2010, according to NASBOâs 2009 State Expenditure Report.As a result, Medicaid surpassed elementary and secondary education as the largest component of total state spending for the first time since 2006 based on estimated fi scal 2010 spending data.unding ongoing Medicaid programs is one of the greatest challenges for states. In governorsâ proposed budgets for fiscal 2012, cost containment in Medicaid is a dominant theme.