aIn her decision ordering the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) to allow current and retired state employees to enroll their homosexual partners in the extended health plan, Wilken declared that “Congress’ restriction on state-maintained long-term care plans lacks any rational...
Compelled to use the same insurer in a long-term contract with a pricing adjustment factor built in, employers will be encouraged to work to better control costs. And insurers, with the prospect of locking in and renewing a huge premium, should be...
POLICY IMPERATIVES and LONGTERM STRATEGY In January we suggested that the responseto these and other marketplace dynamics can be characterized in terms of fourpolicy imperatives which the Board and staff must confront. They are: COST Healthcare premiums are expected to increase at an average minimum...
Five-year Impact of a Commercial Accountable Care Organization on Health Care Spending, Utilization, and Quality of Care Few longitudinal ACO studies with continuous enrollees exist and most are short term. Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the long-term... Hui ZhangDavid W...
CalPERS rate hikes shrink due to lower costs; Long-term efforts to curb health care inflation result in smallest increase for more than 10 years.(News) The article reports that employers who purchase health care coverage through the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) will ...
Most large companies have switched from pensions to 401(k) plans, shifting investment risk to the employee and avoiding long-term pension debt. The employer usually makes an annual payment or defined contribution to the employee’s individual investment account. ...
“Method 5 would produce the dramatic changes in CalPERS funding policy needed to protect the beneficiaries and reduce the long-term cost of benefits for all,” he said. Pellissier, a CalPERS pensioner with 24 years of service credit, said he was concerned the board had failed in its fidu...
Founded in 1932, CalPERS is a California organization that provides benefits to its members. CalPERS provides benefits, such as health insurance, long-term care insurance, retirement benefits, and more. CalPERS invests in foreign and domestic markets, of which it exercises great influence. CalPERS...
Reports that the health committee of the second largest purchaser of health care in the U.S., California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) has approved a plan aimed at lowering long-term health care costs, as of May 16, 2003. Endorsement of a plan by CalPERS to give health ...
CalPERS rate hikes shrink due to lower costs; Long-term efforts to curb health care inflation result in smallest increase for more than 10 years.(News)Wojcik, Joanne