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  • Letter from the Editor ... Are We Over Treated and Over Dosed by Our Health Care Industry?
    Letter ... Are We Over Treated and Over Dosed by Our Health Care Industry? Overview of the book: Overtreated, Why ... Sicker and Poorer. Behavioral economics;Health care costs; 9474 5/1/2008 12:00:00 AM ...

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    • Authors: Gail M Lawrence
    • Date: May 2008
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Economics>Health economics
  • The Impact of the 1998 BBA on Medicare Supplement Carriers
    The Impact of the 1998 BBA on Medicare Supplement Carriers Issues relating to the1998 Balanced ... benefits Issue No. 36. Managed care;Medicare supplement;Payment reforms=Health care payment reforms;Product ...

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    • Authors: Dawn E Helwig, Gail M Lawrence
    • Date: Dec 1998
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Social Insurance>Medicare
  • Health Watch News
    legislation that restruc-tured a portion of the health care system. The main focus of Chapter 58 of the Acts ... Access to Affordable, Quality, Accountable Health Care (the Act), was to extend affordable health insurance ...

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    • Authors: John Cookson, Roy Goldman, Steven Siegel, Robert Damler, Gail M Lawrence, Jim Toole, Brian Weible, Ross Winkelman, Bela Gorman, Heather E Jerbi, Geralyn Trujillo, Kirk Luke Shanks
    • Date: Jan 2008
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
  • Health Section News
    today, meaning that projections for future health care expenditures must account for obesity-related costs ... span of very young individuals. Precise health care expenditures associated with obesity are difficult ...

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    • Authors: Application Administrator, J D Have, Mark E Litow, Steven Siegel, Gail M Lawrence, Chris E Stehno, David Wennberg, Karen A. Fitzner, Ronald O'Shea Gamble, Don Fetterolf
    • Date: May 2006
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
  • Health Section News
    Actuary” The most recent estimates of futurehealth care costs released by CMSproject a 6.4 percent annual ... perspective, this increase translates into health care costs consuming $1 of every $5 spent in the United ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries, Louise H Anderson, Ian G Duncan, William Lane, Stephen P Melek, Steven Siegel, Gail M Lawrence, Jim Toole, Application Administrator, Julie Trocchio
    • Date: May 2007
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
  • The Modernization of Medigap Plans–Managing the Change
    The Modernization of Medigap Plans–Managing the Change This article discusses planning for the ... on or after June 1, 2010. Issue No. 60 Health care reform;Medicare supplement; 9497 1/1/2009 12:00:00 ...

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    • Authors: Gail M Lawrence
    • Date: Jan 2009
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Social Insurance>Medicare
  • Chatting with the Uninsured, A Letter from the Editor
    Chatting with the Uninsured, A Letter from the Editor Editor of the newsletter ... addresses the readership and talks about the U.S. health care policy and the interactive software tool CHAT, a ...

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    • Authors: Gail M Lawrence
    • Date: Sep 2008
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Health care
  • New Medicare Options for Seniors
    New Medicare Options for Seniors Issue No. 36. Article discusses new Medicare Options for Seniors Private ... Accounts MSA Health savings accounts=HSA;Managed care;Medicare; 9319 12/1/1998 12:00:00 AM ...

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    • Authors: Dawn E Helwig, Gail M Lawrence
    • Date: Dec 1998
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
    • Topics: Social Insurance>Medicare
  • Health Watch News
    correlations. Cost increases in the realm of health care have also been a significant driving force. This ... It has gone from a technique used by some managed care plans to evaluate providers to a sophisticated tool ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries, Ian G Duncan, Gail M Lawrence, Gregory Fann, Ross Winkelman, Rowen Bell, Syed Mehmud
    • Date: Sep 2007
    • Publication Name: Health Watch
  • Letter from the Editor ... In This Issue
    health care industry, we waited with some trepidation for the unveiling of the Clinton health care plan ... industry. It seemed that the momentum for health care reform was stopped in its tracks during a presidential ...

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    • Authors: Gail M Lawrence
    • Date: Jan 2008
    • Publication Name: Health Watch