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 Efficiencies NCSL Briefs for State Legislators May 2011 A series examining options for containing or reducing health costs and improving efficiency in health â expanded for 2011 National Conference of State Legislatures T he cost of health and health care in the United States for years has been a highly visible topic of discussion for consumers, employers, state and federal policy-