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.
Health Cost Containment and Efficiency Strategies Strategy Cost Containment Strategy and Logic Target of Cost Containment Evidence of Effect on Costs 1. Administrative Simplification in the Health System Streamlining administra-tive functions in the current health system (e.g., standard-ized forms and processes, streamlined claims processing,