Sentences with phrase «to control health care costs»
The two companies say the deal will help control health care costs as consolidation picks up in the insurance and pharmacy benefits management industries.
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Cigna Corp. and Express Scripts Holding Co. announced Thursday a $ 67 billion purchase by the Bloomfield health insurer in a deal that could help control health care costs as consolidation picks up in the insurance and pharmacy benefits management...
Is it «appalling» that I don't want our already out of control health care costs to balloon even more by covering such a precaution?
Generally, managed care controls health care costs and discourages unnecessary hospitalization and overuse of specialists, and the health plan operates under contract to a payer.
In its 2013 survey of employer health benefits, the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit health policy group, found that 35 percent of employers believe health and wellness programs are an effective strategy for controlling health care costs.
Some organizations may have made changes to control health care costs as well, such as introducing consumer - directed health plans — for example, Health Reimbursement Accounts and Health Savings Accounts — to cover more employees at a lower premium.
The real issue is controlling the health care cost.
Breast - feeding is an important public health strategy for improving infant and child morbidity and mortality and improving maternal morbidity and helping to control health care costs,» the ADA said in a news release.
A release from the Cuomo administration said «Both the state and PEF agree to work together on a plan to reduce out - of - control health care costs.»
«Taking medications as prescribed important to control health care costs.»
«We can spend all the money we want on health care but prevention and wellness are the only true ways to control health care costs... Health care dollars focus on disease and end of life care, not prevention and wellness... We're not connecting the dots and need to move from an emphasis on sickness to an emphasis on wellness.»