Life & Health

School districts should be aware that new disability regulations under the Fair Employment & Housing Act state that an involuntary reassignment or transfer is an unlawful employment practice when it is based on disability. An employee who has a disability and is involuntarily transferred or reassigned may be able to successfully sue for discrimination.|

Based upon the count of many experts, there appear to be 19 specific taxes or increased taxes directly related to healthcare reform, estimated by some experts to total $500 billion over 10 years.

Understanding the actuarial value (i.e., AV) of your health plan is important. Identifying what that value is will require specialized expertise. It is critical that you have good information to make good decisions.

Employers can't afford to wait for politicians or health care executives to solve the problem of health care costs. Now is the time to define what you mean by value and purchase accordingly.

Drug companies should be rewarded for developing orphan drugs. It's the only way to guarantee that, no matter how uncommon an illness, there will be somebody, somewhere working to find a cure for it.

Because dental service organizations can operate more efficiently than a single dentist office, they can cope with Medicaid's low reimbursement rates and heavy paperwork requirements, providing care for the poor without losing money on each patient they see.

The only way the Healthcare industry can manage their musculoskeletal disorder cases is by adopting the the EFA-STM baseline test, which is an objective, evidence-based tool designed to measure the functional status of an injured worker and to identify return-to-work opportunities. We are pleased to include a phone interview with Dr. Reaston with this article through a special media partnership with WRIN.tv.|The only way the Healthcare industry can manage their musculoskeletal disorder cases is by adopting the the EFA-STM baseline test, which is an objective, evidence-based tool designed to measure the functional status of an injured worker and to identify return-to-work opportunities. We are pleased to include a phone interview with Dr. Reaston with this article through a special media partnership with WRIN.tv.

Once the currently undocumented can legally remain in the US and continue to work in the industries they occupy, it is more likely that they will opt to go to their home country for medical treatment should they get injured on the job.