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- Title
What is Happening in Health Care Cost Containment?
- Authors
Hall Jr., Charles P.
- Abstract
Health care costs have been rising out of control for many years, creating a problem of crisis proportions for society as well as for the corporations that pay for the benefits and the patients who use them. Providers of care, too, have suffered in several ways. This paper traces the development of the cost crisis and discusses a variety of ways in which corporate benefits managers and their firms can cope with the problem. Potential solutions are considered under the headings of business coalitions, cost sharing benefit changes, improved benefits management, benefit changes and alternative delivery, systems, education and legislative initiatives. Though arbitrary, and not mutually exclusive, these categories provide a convenient framework by which to examine current practice. Finally, it is suggested that progress is being made and that a reasonable degree of cost containment seems attainable.
- Subjects
COST control; MEDICAL care costs; MEDICAL economics; EMPLOYEE benefits; COMPENSATION management; INCOME; LABOR costs; SOCIAL security
- Publication
Benefits Quarterly, 1985, Vol 1, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
8756-1263
- Publication type
Article