Sentences with phrase «cut health costs»

There are two stories in the headlines today that both look poised to cut health costs.

Amazon is working with JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) and Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) to determine how to cut health costs for hundreds of thousands of their employees.

Cutting health costs, renegotiating labor contracts, selling off profitable finance divisions, or buying bits in China won't fix the situation, however important all those efforts may be.

Not exact matches

Corporate wellness programs are supposed to help cut employers» healthcare costs by gently nudging employees to improve their own health.

Cut the cost of health - care premiums by buying insurance online at HealthCare.gov to qualify for a tax credit worth thousands of dollars.

The insurers will launch the new program this summer, along with Quest Diagnostics and health insurance consultants at Multiplan, to see whether they can cut costs by sharing data and reduce the administrative burden of keeping lists accurate.

Health systems and insurers are looking to tech companies» solutions to help boost customer satisfaction, cut costs, and improve data interoperability.

If you already have health insurance, be sure you're cutting costs so you're not overpaying, either.

With its eye on accelerating cost cuts, Ford announced first - quarter earnings that topped analyst expectations, and offered up some detail on the steps it will take to improve its financial health and realign its portfolio with a dramatic shift in consumer tastes.

Many employers are retaining boom - time workplace health practices, but cost cutting does have its price.

It comes at a time when health insurers and hospitals are increasingly looking to technology to help boost patient satisfaction, as consumers and employers are pressing the industry to cut costs and make it easier to access care.

According to the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, efficiency improvements of the kind that Tonic is offering should be able to cut $ 305 billion in health care costs byHealth Solutions, efficiency improvements of the kind that Tonic is offering should be able to cut $ 305 billion in health care costs byhealth care costs by 2021.

AirStrip, an app that lets doctors use their mobile devices to monitor a hospital patient's vital signs remotely, is one of the many mobile technology startups that is helping to cut health care costs under Obamacare.

Cost - cutting by health insurers and concerns over drug pricing have made CVS's pharma - benefits unit seem like a liability to some investors; and in the head - to - head fight, Walgreens has grabbed some market share.

Buffett is working on the initiative with Amazon and J.P. Morgan Chase in an attempt to cut health - care costs and improve services for U.S. employees.

In pre-budget consultations, it recommended cost - cutting in all ministries, including health, «even though we know that, politically, this is an area that can pose challenges.»

Former Medtronic CEO Bill George says innovation is essential to improving the health of Americans, while cutting costs by improving system efficiency.

The Health and Human Services Department said in a statement Thursday that the government has withdrawn about $ 5 million in ads as part of an effort to cut costs.

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase on Tuesday announced a partnership to cut health - care costs and improve services for their U.S. employees.

Early responses from the survey suggest that 46 percent of employers would take steps to cut costs with new strategies such as high - deductible health plans - which shift the burden of initial medical costs to patients, but have lower monthly premiums.

Protecting major transfers to persons, spending on health and education and other spending such as that for Aboriginal programs, research and development, and assuming you won't revisit defense and international assistance, then to find an additional $ 8 to $ 11 billion by 2015 - 16 would require major cuts in labor market programs, spending on the homeless, infrastructure programs, and last, but certainly not least, government personnel costs.

He said he's noticed businesses in diverse sectors — health care, construction, financial and nonprofit, among others — transitioning to BYOD to cut IT costs.

That's going to be a problem for the health care bill — senators want to bolster the financial assistance for lower - income people buying private insurance and soften some of the House bill's Medicaid cuts, which will cost more money.

NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.

Amazon, JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway announced a partnership to cut health - care costs and improve services for their U.S. employees.

Other topics likely to come up include Berkshire's decision to team up with Amazon and JPMorgan Chase to form a new company to lower health care costs; Berkshire's growing pile of cash and the environment for deal making; and the tax cuts passed late last year, which provided Berkshire with a hefty windfall.

Department of Corrections officials justify the soy - based meals as a cost - cutting measure, but increased health care costs and pending liability for not supplying life - sustaining meals have the potential to make the soy - based meals very expensive for the state of Illinois.»

All told, these three laws contain eight different small business tax cuts, including the exclusion of up to 75 % capital gains on key small business investments, a tax credit for the cost of health insurance for small business employees, and new tax credits for hiring Americans who had been out of work for at least two months.

«A reduction in gas prices and grocery deflation will help customers stretch their budgets, but they're still trying to absorb a 2 % payroll tax cut, uncertainty over Washington, and a lack of clarity around personal health care costs that are all headwinds,» Mr. Simon said.

In fact, the pressure on Savvides could well switch quickly from his apparent lack of willingness to cut costs to the far more important question of whether or not he has the ability to execute a strategy of integrating health insurance with health services.

That win comes at a cost: By repealing the mandate in their tax plan, Republicans are paying for $ 1 trillion in corporate tax cuts and individual tax cuts that heavily benefit wealthy Americans by adding a provision that will lead to millions fewer people having health coverage.

Novell Net Services Software Enables Metropolitan Health to Cut Costs, Improve Patient Care and Meet the Challenges of New Government Healthcare Regulations

The whole idea of «cutting the cost of health care» is idiotic anyway because the cost of doing business, like all other businesses, has gone up and continues to go up... we pay for improved diagnostic tools, the doctors» fees include the cost of running his / her office, etc..

Corporations are just looking for any way to cut cost and not provide health care.

It will cover 32 million uninsured Americans beginning in 2014 and mandates a suite of experimental measures to cut health care cost growth, the number one cause of America's long - term fiscal problems.

Workers in such industries are not only inadequately protected as regards health and safety, but they also do not enjoy security of employment in view of the tendency of such investors to move offshore to cut costs.

The company — which is Christian - led but not a ministry — offers employers the chance to supplement self - insured group health plans with health care sharing as a way to cut costs.

By making the move to «vegan meat», fast food outlets could simultaneously cut costs and improve their health credentials, while at the same time saving the lives of millions of animals and cutting the carbon cost associated with raising them.

The technology — designed to lower investment, operational and maintenance costs in screening of municipal and industrial waste water with compacting of extracted solids — has also cut the amount of maintenance and waste that has to be handled by plant operators, reducing operational health hazards and improving OHS performance.

To cut costs and increase production, many modern farmers put their cows on feed - lots — a small, industrialized space where they are given grain - based food that is specifically designed to influence the health of the animal.

the financial cost of all the fights that fall through because of weight cuts, all the cancelled fights, ticket refunds, the promotions / advertisements that either have to be reworked or just get flushed down the toilet, above all the health of the fighters....

«The pending 55 % cut will limit access, increase long - term costs for medical care, and almost certainly cement Alabama at the very bottom of many vital national health statistics.

Miramichi Leader, January 23, 2009 Weatherproofing can cut your energy costs by the Editors of E / The Environmental Magazine» A growing number of green - minded parents are starting to recognize the health and ecological benefits of reusable cloth diapers over disposables.

Considering the Black and White Ball of the Mental Health Association of Greater Chicago was benefiting programs for the homeless, it made sense that the ball committee decided to cut costs at every turn.

The UK has one of the most entrenched bottle feeding cultures in the world, and despite overwhelming evidence that breastfeeding saves lives, improves health and cuts costs, there continues to be a general belief that formula milk is almost as good as breastmilk.

Recently three new major studies funded by the Gates Foundation have been published, including a series in the Lancet, which delivered resounding and extensive evidence that breastfeeding saves lives, improves health and cuts health service costs in every country, rich or poor.

So in this era of cost cutting and devaluing my skills and my health I walked out half way through a shift and have never been back.

Despite compelling evidence that breastfeeding saves lives, protects health and cuts costs, marketing of breastmilk substitutes fuels a misconception that formula milk is almost as good as breastmilk.

Health spending may be ringfenced, but the huge costs of the government's reorganisation and a shortfall in funding could lead to cuts in frontline services.

Spitzer took issue with Cuomo's strategy of putting health care players with a vested interest in the Medicaid debate — namely GNYHA and SEIU 1199 — onto the redesign team that hashed out a reform and cost - cutting strategy that included sweeteners for the industry (the indemnity fund, living wage) in exchange for accepting spending cuts.