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.
Summary Funding ongoing Medicaid programs is one of the greatest challenges for states. In governorsâ proposed budgets for fi scal 2012, cost containment in Medicaid is a dominant theme.Medicaid spending is estimated at $354 billion in fi scal 2010, according to NASBOâs 2009 State Expenditure Report.edicaid is projected to increase at an average annual increase of 8.3 percent over the next 10 years according to the CMS Offi ce of the Actuary.Medicaid cost containment proposals follow on the heels of state actions to address Medicaid costs the past several years.