Employee benefits, 8th ed.
9781419589997 Employee benefits, 8th ed. Beam, Burton T. and John J. McFadden. Dearborn Trade Publishing 2007 778 pages $89.92 Paperback HD4928 This work covers the broad spectrum of employee benefits, from...

Some Fla. hospitals allow malpractice self-insurance. (Physicians Need $250,000 to Self-Insure).
Bowing to the pressures of the medical liability crisis, some hospitals in central and southern Florida are letting their physicians "go bare." But they won't be naked. As long as Florida physicians can cover a malpractice claim of $250,000, they can practice without medical malpractice insurance, due...

Laws requiring health plans to provide direct access to obstetricians and gynecologists, and use of cancer screening by women.
Reacting to patient and provider dissatisfaction with the restrictive practices of managed care plans during the 1990s, many states adopted managed care patient protection regulations designed to restrain these health plan activities (Blendon et al. 1998; Noble and Brennan 1999; Sloan and Hall 2002). Limited access to specialists was...

Budget shortfall found to be over $60,000.
Byline: Mary Jo Hill FITCHBURG - The general fund deficit for last fiscal year amounts to $60,482, according to a recently released city report. The fiscal 2007 deficit resulted from actual revenues coming in below estimates by about $1,148,000, an amount offset by unspent and...

Competition in Hospital and Health Insurance Markets: A Review and Research Agenda.
Objectives. To review the empirical literature on the effects of selective contracting and hospital competition on hospital prices, travel distance, services, and quality; to review the effects of managed care penetration and competition on health insurance premiums; and to identify areas for further research. Principal Findings. Selective...

Health reform must address malpractice.
Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Marc Shapiro For The Register-Guard In discussing the various plans before the Oregon Legislature to address the health care crisis, the question of how to deal with the parallel emergency in malpractice insurance repeatedly comes to the fore. It significantly affects the cost...

Marsh. (Finance: advertisement).
The hospitality industry faces a variety of complex issues that run the spectrum from employment risk to gaming. Furthermore, there are differences in how these issues affect each client depending on whether they have five-star resorts, business hotels, limited-service properties or vacation resorts. Marsh's Hospitality practice has...

Parity for mental health.
Byline: The Register-Guard= Oregon hasn't been a trailblazer in mental health reform, but "better late than never" sounds pretty good right now to Oregonians with group insurance who need treatment for mental illness. On Jan. 1, the new mental health insurance parity law took effect,...

Letters in the Editor's Mailbag.
Byline: The Register-Guard First, exile Castro The May 16 editorial "Carter's candor in Cuba" points out once again how forgetful some of the news media can be. The editorial called for lifting the embargo on Cuba, noting that Castro has held his country...

A comparative analysis of mandated benefit laws, 1949-2002.
Individuals are likely to have more information about their potential need for care than insurers, so the latter have concerns that potential enrollees seeking coverage may be at greater than average risk. This information asymmetry creates incentives for insurers to offer less broad coverage than the public would want...