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• Employers Taking Bold Action to Manage Health Costs and Offer Affordable Care, Towers Watson/National Business Group on Health Survey Finds.

Health care costs expected to increase by 7% in 2011; adoption of account-based health plans projected to jump in 2012 NEW YORK -- Over the past yea...

• Business Wire
• March 10, 2011

• Aetna Recognized by the National Business Group on Health for Reducing Disparities in Care.

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Aetna (NYSE: AET) was honored today by the National Business Group on Health (NBGH) with its inaugural "Award for Innovation in Red...

• Business Wire
• March 11, 2011

• Nancy M. Smith and Joseph L. Smith, Her Husband v. the Hartford Insurance Group; the Provident Life and Accident Insurance Group; National Medical Enterprises Inc.; National Medical Specialty Hospital Group; Psychiatric Institutes of America Health Care Group; Pennsylvania Health Corp., D/B/a the Rehab Hospital in Mechanicsburg; P.I.A. Voluntary Employees Beneficiary Association Group Insurance Plan; P.I.A. Voluntary Employees Beneficiary Association Administrative Committee, Nancy M. Smith and Joseph L. Smith, Appellants., 6 F.3d 131 (3rd Cir. 1993)

Richard C. Angino (argued), Angino & Rovner, Harrisburg, PA, for appellants. Andrew H. Cline (argued), Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, Harrisburg, PA, for ap...

• Federal Circuits

• Cigna Recognized by National Business Group on Health for Efforts to Reduce Health Care Disparities.

* Cigna honored with national award for its employee-driven initiative to provide access to equitable health care for all its customers. * Cigna main...

• Business Wire
• March 09, 2012

• Movers & Shakers: New Hires, Promotions, Honors, New Businesses

- Goodwill Industries of Colorado Springs has elected Steve Condon, president of CB&T Wealth Management, as 2012 chairman of its board of directors. Chris Odell, a network communications executive, will serve as chair-elect. Goodwill's board of directors has two new members: Michael Cafasso, vice president of operations, Centura Health-St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center, and Dr. Donald Spradlin. The Goodwill Foundation has reappointed Phil De Vries, senior vice president, BBVA Compass Bank, as its board chairman, and Sue Mulvihill, an investment banking executive, as chair-elect. Goodwill's Foundation board is joined by the following new members: Jerry Grage, founder/chairman/CEO, Colomex; Mari Sinton-Martinez, vice president and board member, Moniker Foundation; and Jim Spittler, principal...

... pursuing an MBA in marketing and health care at UCCS. - Dr. Toni Green, of Colorado Springs, re...Green is among a national network of more than 1,600 volunteer physicians wh...

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• January 06, 2012

• With Obesity Key Driver of Rising Health Care Costs, National Business Group On Health Urges Tax Code Changes

To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Phil Blando, +1-202-386-7370, or Rebecca Ayer, +1-202- 527-4842, both for National Business Group on Health

• U.S. Newswire
• May 07, 2009

• Cap On Out-of-Pocket Health Costs Praised

Caps on out-of-pocket medical costs required by the federal health reform bill would shield nearly 300,000 Washington residents from $541 million in catastrophic health care costs if those caps were in place today, says a new study conducted for a national health care consumer group. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama in March, would cap annual out-of-pocket health care costs at $5,950 for individuals and $11,900 for families if those caps were in place today, the study found. The caps are scheduled to take effect in 2014.

• The Columbian
• February 12, 2011

• Babcock & Wilcox and Caesars Entertainment Discuss Employee Wellness Innovations and Outcomes Achieved through Walgreens Take Care Health Systems at National Business Group on Health Conference.

BOSTON -- Employee wellness experts from The Babcock & Wilcox Company (NYSE:BWC) (B&W), Caesars Entertainment and other employers shared insights and ...

• Business Wire
• November 01, 2011

• National Business Group On Health Applauds Cms Final Rule Giving Individuals Information to Make Better Health Care Choices

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Business Group on Health today applauded a final rule issued by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services that gives individuals more information to help choose their physicians. The Business Group calls today's action a giant step forward in efforts to make the cost and quality of health care more transparent and to promote competition. The rule, announced today, gives qualified organizations, including employers and consumer groups, access to data that can help them identify high quality health care providers or create online tools to help consumers make educated health care choices. The final rule also makes this data less costly for qualified entities, gives qualified organizations more flexibility in their use of Medicare da...

• U.S. Newswire
• December 05, 2011

• State Gets B for Palliative Care Services

Four in five New Jersey hospitals have palliative care programs to help the sickest patients, earning the state a B grade in a national report card issued by a health care advocacy group. This treatment helps those terminally ill with cancer or battling chronic heart failure by alleviating pain and symptoms while focusing on quality of life, experts say.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• October 05, 2011