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Cartoon – Medication Side Effects
‘The most common side effect of this medication is loss of disposable income.’
Here’s Why Your Health Insurance Premiums Are Going Up Again
A new report from the American Academy of Actuaries outlines the trends that will impact health insurance premiums next year. “There are both upward and downward pressures on premiums for 2017, but for the individual and small group markets as a whole, the factors driving premium increases up dominate,” senior academy health fellow Cori Uccello said in a statement.
How leaders create great companies with stakeholders
MANAGING THE SECOND THING
https://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2016/05/16/managing-the-second-thing/
“Our actions may be impeded, but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” — Marcus Aurelius
CEO turnover: Have a strong succession plan, groom leaders from within
Report finds that 98% of surveyed healthcare leaders would consider job change.
FTC Chair Makes Clear Hospital Consolidation Hurdles
Exterior of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in Washington, D.C.
Hospital and health system mergers and acquisitions have grown by 70% since 2010. That means “vigorous enforcement of the antitrust laws is more important than ever,” says the chair of the Federal Trade Commission.
Cartoon – M&A Today
“As you know we’ve made a lot of acquisitions lately, and the last one we made seems to have resulted in us buying ourselves.”
White House unveils overtime rules, raises cutoff to $47,476
The White House has released the much-discussed and awaited details of the new Department of Labor overtime pay rules, raising the exempt threshold from $23,660 to $47,476 per year — under which most salaried workers are guaranteed overtime.
More Employers Cover Transgender Surgery As Politics Shift
http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/transgender-surgery-increasingly-covered-by-us-employers/419361/
The nation’s employers are increasingly becoming more open to covering gender reassignment surgery for their workers as attitudes and public policies shift on transgender rights. Nearly one-third of large companies include gender confirmation surgery as part of employee health benefit packages. Though it does vary by employer size and by region of the country, the trend is rapidly moving toward providing coverage, benefits consultants say.
