Carrot-And-Stick Health Plans Aim To Cut Costs
Workers at a Portland, Ore., steel mill soon will be able to pick a new type of health insurance: one with financial rewards to use proven treatments and disincentives to use less-effective surgeries and diagnostic tests.

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Regents OK Audit Of Employees’ Health Insurance
The University System of Georgia hopes to save up to $4 million by auditing employees’ health insurance coverage.

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Insurance Regulation Expert Calls for Freeze of Health Rates Until ‘Prior Approval’ Regulation Is Adopted
WASHINGTON, March 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Harvey Rosenfield, author of California’s landmark insurance regulation Proposition 103–recognized as the most successful insurance regulation in the country–was joined today by people struggling to pay for health insurance in calling on President Obama and Congress to impose a national freeze on health insurance rates as part of the final round …

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