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.
As the incremental cost of screening (universal over targeted) was $31.19 per hospitalised patient, the ratio was estimated to have been $0.50, suggesting that for every additional dollar spent on universal versus targeted screening only $0.50 could be recovered in avoided costs of hospital-acquired MRSA infection.