BSG Named Top Milwaukee Workplace
The Business Journal had selected BSG as one of 28 winners in the small company category (under 100 employees) for the 2009 Top Milwaukee Workplace awards. The competition is based on surveys of all applicants' employees. Winners will be announced in the June 26 edition of The Business Journal.
Health Care System Reform
Confused about the state of the union when it comes to health care reform? There's good reason to be. Here is the list (as of 6/16/09) of bills introduced this year. BSG's own Research and Compliance department is keeping an eye on the situation as it unfolds and will certainly pass along any definitive developements.
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House Bills
HR 2 - Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (Signed into law as Public Law No. 111-03)
HR 15 - National Health Insurance Act
HR 109 - America's Affordable Health Care Act of 2009
HR 193 - AmeriCare Health Care Act of 2009
HR 676 - United States National Health Care Act or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act
HR 956 - Health Coverage, Affordability, Responsibility, and Equity Act of 2009
HR 1086 - Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2009
HR 1200 - American Health Security Act
HR 1296 - Access for All America Act
HR 1321 - Healthy Americans Act
HR 2360 - Small Business Options Program (SHOP) Act of 2009
HR 2399 - American Health Benefits Program Act of 2009
HR 2516 - Medical Rights Act
HR 2520 - Patients Choice Act of 2009
HR 2535 - Blueprint for Health Act of 2009
HR 2607 - Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2009
HR 2629 - Coercion Is Not Health Care Act
HR 2668 - Choice in Health Options Insures Care for Everyone (CHOICE) Act of 2009
HR 2816 - States' Right to Innovate in Health Care Act of 2009
HR 2833 - Good Care Act of 2009 -
Senate Bills
S 4 - Comprehensive Health Reform Act of 2009
S 93 - Small Business Empowerment Act
S 391 - Healthy Americans Act
S 486 - Access for All America Act
S 960 - Medicare Early Access Act
S 979 - Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) Act of 2009
S 1099 - Patients Choice Act of 2009
S1165 - Promoting Health Care Purchasing Cooperatives Act
Routine Diabetes Screenings Could Cut Healthcare Costs
June 8, 2009 - Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center of Emory University
Screening adults for diabetes could result in significant cost savings for healthcare systems compared to the costs of not screening individuals at all. Researchers at Emory University screened 1,259 adults who had never been diagnosed with diabetes. The researchers found that 24 percent of the adults screened had either diabetes or prediabetes. In addition, they concluded that cost for screening and three years of treatment with metformin, or change in lifestyle for individuals found to have prediabetes or previously recognized diabetes, would be lower than the cost for not screening.
