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.
Making Workers Compensation Medical Fee Schedules More Effective Cost containment is critical to maintaining a viable workers compensation (WC) system, and the rising cost of delivering healthcare services underscores the need to control WC medical costs. Fee schedules are the oldest and most widely used device to regulate WC medical payments. Still, questions remain as to what makes for an effective fee schedule.