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.
But they're called catastrophic plans for a reason, says Fish-Parcham of Families USA. When you compare (the $6,350 deductible for individuals) with the cost of hospital care and follow-up care for an accident or a big illness, you could easily be racking up $20,000 or $50,000 in hospital bills, she says. This is a way to limit your exposure to medical expenses..