The 12th Annual MetLife U.S. Employee Benefits Trends Study highlights employees' attitudes toward their benefits and employers' challenges in delivering benefits that satisfy workers but keep costs controlled.
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A TowersWatson survey finds that 59% of workers are satisfied with their health benefits, a drop of 10% since 2007, with older workers and those in poorer health reporting the lowest levels of satisfaction. Cost is the greatest source of discontent with health benefits.
http://www.towerswatson.com/en-US/Insights/Newsletters/Americas/insider/2014/retirement-security-tops-list-of-employee-concernsA survey for Enroll America, funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, explores why some people did and did not enroll on the exchanges in its initial open enrollment period.
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The Kaiser Family Foundation sponsored focus groups to learn what factors were important to Medicare beneficiaries in choosing insurance plans, including Medicare Supplements, Medicare Advantage and Part D.
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The 2014 bSwift benefits survey looks at trends in health benefits, with a focus on wellness, defined contribution and automation.
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A study from the westhealth policy center and the Center for Studying Health System Change analyzes the effect of the health care price transparency movement.
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The case of the non-existent link between certain fats in the diet and heart disease reminds us again how poorly designed and executed much research is, and how dangerous dissemination…
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation sponsors the ABIM Foundation which runs the Choosing Wisely initiative to reduce unnecessary care and which has released a survey of physicians regarding the subject.
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A report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation discusses use of behavioral economics concepts in health care.
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A paper from the PWC Health Research Institute hypothesizes that new entrants will totally overturn the United States' Health Care System. Doesn't really seem very likely.
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Greater use of health information technology by physicians lessens the amount of personal time they spend with patients, potentially decreasing both provider and patient satisfaction and lowering the quality of health care, according to a recent survey.
http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/increased-use-of-health-it-equates-to-less-face-time-with-patients-says-report.htmlThe second employee survey of the week comes from Towers Watson. It also focuses on retirement and health care issues.
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A brief from the Employee Benefits Research Institute examines use of prescription drugs by enrollees in a high-deductible insurance plan, finding a greater percentage of generic prescriptions but in the…
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It is employee survey week!! First we look at results from a survey Mercer did of workers regarding retirement, health benefit and other matters.
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Although no providers delivered adequate rates of patient education, nurse practitioners and physician assistants are more likely than doctors to provide patients with educational material on their diseases and health care, according to a study in Prevention of Chronic Diseases.
http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2014/13_0175.htm?utm_source=H2RMinutes+PCMH-ACO+Mar.+25%2C+2014&utm_campaign=ACO+mins+3%2F18%2F14&utm_medium=emailAbout this Blog
The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.
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