The Urgent Care Association of America estimates that there are around 13,000 to 16,000 urgent care centers in the USA. Many illnesses and injuries that require timely treatment but are not true emergencies are ideally suited for evaluation in an urgent care center. If your personal physician is not available, a visit to an urgent…
Buttons for hospitals can be a great way to spread motivation, identify people, and help with the healing process. There are a great many uses and fun projects that hospitals can do utilizing buttons. From Public Relations to patient care, buttons can serve you well in a hospital environment. Any hospital with a children’s ward…
Employers nationwide face critical decisions about their health benefits program. Should they continue funding their employees’ health benefits at the same contribution level as in the past? Should they keep the same level of benefits as before? What can be done to minimize costs and maximize benefits? These are tough questions. Rising health care costs…
In this era of creative financing and cost management tools, many employers are looking for new ways to help employees finance their health care expenses. As an employer, you want to provide good coverage, but the cost increases in recent years have been tough to handle. A typical response to these increases may be to…
For most companies, open enrollment is a 30-day period in which employees have the opportunity to select their benefits for the next year. Making an informed decision about which health plan to select is critical for employees, but it can be a little overwhelming, especially if there are several plans to choose from. To assist…
As a business owner, you’ve come to expect big increases in your employee health insurance premiums of late. Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums increased an average of 11.2 percent in 2004, and this was the fourth consecutive year of double-digit growth, according to the recent Annual Employer Health Benefits Survey released by the Kaiser Family Foundation.…
The cost of providing employees with health insurance coverage continues to increase at a double-digit rate. We’ve read a lot about cost drivers in health care – exorbitant hospital charges, rising prescription drug costs, expenses associated with developing new technologies and treatments, an aging population and litigation. Nurturing these factors is an environment in which…