Group Backs Health Inflation Treatments
The National Business Group on Health yesterday released a series of recommendations for employers seeking to control their medical expenses. NBGH, which represents 250 large employers, recommends these actions:- stop paying for medical claims related to medical errors,
- require hospitals and health care systems in preferred networks, or groups that receive special financial incentives, to take specific measures to improve health care quality and safety though programs like the 100,000 Lives Campaign and the Surgical Care Improvement Project, and
- encourage hospitals to adopt health IT.
NBGH Preident Helen Darling comments, “There is an urgent need to protect patients, and the lack of meaningful progress in improving safety and quality in the U.S. health system is frustrating to employers that can no longer afford to sustain rising and uncontrollable health care costs."
Harry Spencer, chair of NBGH's board of directors and vice president of global benefits & HR operations at Time Warner, says, “The need for vast systemic improvement in the quality and safety of health care has never been greater.”
Article provided by Benefitnews, October 5, 2006
posted by Mike @ 8:10 AM
1 Comments:
I think it would make more sense if the government and individuals took control of their health insurance instead of employers giving only one option. Reference: http://www.emaxhealth.com/72/
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