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TSBGH 2004 Employer Benefit Plan & Health Care Cost Survey
"We're Paying More", from the Evansville Courier & Press
Editorial 1 and Editorial 2, regarding community health care costs

Reports & Publications

Turning Your Employees Into Health Care Consumers
Presentation from 3-18-04 Added 3-16-04

Hospital/Health Care Provider Reports

Selected Inpatient Services at Evansville's Acute Care Hospitals 1997-1999 Added 8-23-01

General Library Documents
Health Care Costs
"Perception vs. Deception: The Truth Behind Discounts for Self-Funded Groups", Health Insurance Underwriter, August 17, 2004

"Which Medical Conditions Account for the Rise in Health Care Spending?", Health Affairs Web Exclusive, August 2004

Health Care Quality
"Reducing the Costs of Poor-Quality Health Care Through Responsible Purchasing Leadership", Midwest Business Group on Health, 2002 (94 pgs)

Predictive Modeling
"An Ounce of Prediction", CIO Magazine, July 1, 2004

Pharmacy Costs
"Keeping Costs in Check", Benefits Selling, April 2004(3pgs)

Local News
"Hospitals' charity, bad debt costs up", Evansville Courier & Press, August 14, 2004

"Prognosis: negative", Evansville Courier & Press, August 22, 2004

"We're Paying More", Evansville Courier & Press, July 11, 2004

"Health Care Costs" (Editorial), Evansville Courier & Press, July 15, 2004

"Let's Find Out Why", Evansville Courier & Press, July 18, 2004

"Hospital Trauma Center Is Hot Issue", Evansville Courier & Press, March 24, 2002

"Two Trauma Centers Called One Too Many", Evansville Courier & Press, November 10, 2002

"St. Mary's Opts Out Of Trauma Sharing", Evansville Courier & Press, November 15, 2002

Mandated Health Insurance Benefits
"Mandated Health Insurance Benefits: Tradeoffs Among Benefits, Coverage, and Costs?", California Health Policy Roundtable, July 2002

Disease Management
"Disease Management: A Promising Approach for Health Care Purchasers", National Health Care Purchasing Institute, May 2002

Patient-Directed Healthcare Benefits
"An Employer's Guide to Patient-Directed Healthcare Benefits", Wye River Group on Healthcare, 2003(65 pgs)

Consumer Education Tools
"Your Health Information Privacy Rights", U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights, 2004

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