Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Absenteeism (Labor) (1)
- Adults -- Health (1)
- Code of Medical Ethics (1)
- Employer-sponsored health insurance -- Taxation (1)
- Employment at will (1)
-
- Fringe benefits (1)
- HMO's (1)
- Health care costs (1)
- Health care industry (1)
- Health promotion -- United States (1)
- Incentivize Employer-Provided Wellness Benefits (1)
- Insurance (1)
- Internal revenue law -- United States (1)
- It Saves to be Healthy (1)
- Labor productivity -- United States -- Economic (1)
- Lex talionis (1)
- Loss Prevention (1)
- Malpractice Cases (1)
- Managed Care Organizations (1)
- Medical Profession (1)
- Moral Hazard (1)
- Obesity -- Statistics (1)
- Petermann v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters (1)
- Physicians (1)
- Regulation (1)
- Regulation Thesis (1)
- Tax Code (1)
- Tax incentive (1)
- Tax incentives -- United States (1)
Articles 1 - 3 of 3
Full-Text Articles in Insurance Law
The Limits Of Regulation By Insurance, Kenneth S. Abraham, Daniel Benjamin Schwarcz
The Limits Of Regulation By Insurance, Kenneth S. Abraham, Daniel Benjamin Schwarcz
Indiana Law Journal
Insurance is an enormously powerful and beneficial method of spreading risk and compensating for loss. But even insurance has its limits. A new and misleading aspiration for insurance—that it also can and often does substitute for or significantly complement health and safety regulation—is increasingly in vogue. This vision starts from the uncontroversial recognition that insurers typically adopt measures designed to counteract “moral hazard,” the tendency of insurance to blunt policyholders’ incentives to take care. But proponents of this vision go on to contend that the risk-reducing potential of insurance is significantly more extensive than is traditionally imagined, because insurers are …
It Saves To Be Healthy: Using The Tax Code To Incentivize Employer-Provided Wellness Benefits, Hilary R. Shepherd
It Saves To Be Healthy: Using The Tax Code To Incentivize Employer-Provided Wellness Benefits, Hilary R. Shepherd
Indiana Law Journal
With lifestyle-related disease on the rise and an increasing number of employers being held responsible for providing health insurance to their employees, we as a society have incentives to promote wellness, even if only to cut health care costs. Part I of this Note outlines a brief history of employer-provided wellness benefits and provides a concise summary of the employer-provided wellness benefits available. Part II analyzes the relevant federal income tax law, specifically, the fringe benefits provision of the Internal Revenue Code, and concludes that under existing tax law, on-premises gym facilities do not yield any taxable income to employees, …
Physician Employment Under Managed Care: Toward A Retaliatory Discharge Cause Of Action For Hmo-Affiliated Physicians, Peter B. Jurgeleit
Physician Employment Under Managed Care: Toward A Retaliatory Discharge Cause Of Action For Hmo-Affiliated Physicians, Peter B. Jurgeleit
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.