How a State Law on Health Claims Transparency Can Serve as a Federal Model

On November 24, 2010, in Publications, by George Pantos

By George J. Pan­tos, Esq., Health­care Per­for­mance Man­age­ment Insti­tute With a grow­ing national focus on find­ing ways to con­trol ever-increasing health costs, greater trans­parency of claims data in the U.S. health care sys­tem might be a key to bend­ing the cost curve down­ward. Yet in the national dia­log on health reform, the impor­tance of claims […]

WellNet Source Newsletter — Fall 2009 Issue

On October 5, 2009, in Publications, by George Pantos

Tech­nol­ogy Offers Imme­di­ate Solu­tion for Soar­ing Health­care Costs While Pres­i­dent Obama made a strong pitch for health insur­ance reform to a joint ses­sion of Con­gress, strik­ing omis­sions in his speech were fail­ure to address the crit­i­cal cost issue and how tech­nol­ogy can help con­tain esca­lat­ing health costs today. Absent from his speech were ref­er­ences to how […]

Health Care Reform—A Threat to Employer Health Plans?

On September 4, 2009, in Publications, by George Pantos

The chal­lenge for Con­gress is to walk a fine line by adopt­ing needed reforms while strength­en­ing the cur­rent sys­tem. The quest for health reform by a divided Con­gress is echo­ing loudly across the U.S. employment-based land­scape. Although a final leg­isla­tive out­come is far from being decided as of this writ­ing in mid-September 2009, the direction […]

Managing Health-Plan Costs During Economic Downturn

On February 16, 2009, in Publications, by George Pantos

Well­Net Source – Inno­va­tion for a Health­ier Work­force – Issue No. 2 – Win­ter 2009 By George J. Pan­tos, Esq. Click here to view a PDF ver­sion of the Well­Net­Source publication.

ERISA Waivers on Congressional Agenda

On August 7, 2007, in Publications, by George Pantos

Look­out — Vol­ume 23 By George J. Pan­tos, Esq. and Clif­fort Roberti Once again, Con­gress is under polit­i­cal pres­sure to allow fed­eral waivers to ERISA’s pre­emp­tion pro­vi­sions. In 1993–94, ERISA was a major health care reform bat­tle­ground and waivers were a crit­i­cal leg­isla­tive issue in the 104th Con­gress. While the waiver issue failed pas­sage in the […]