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Workplace Screening & Brief Intervention: The Big (Brief Intervention Group) Initiative, Eric Goplerud, Tracy Mcpherson
Workplace Screening & Brief Intervention: The Big (Brief Intervention Group) Initiative, Eric Goplerud, Tracy Mcpherson
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
To realize the full value of their investment in Employee Assistance Program (EAP), employers should attend to the opportunities to drive down health and productivity costs by encouraging their EAPs to engage and treat workers who drink in unhealthy ways. Nationwide, EAPs engage only about one worker in twenty who has a serious alcohol problem. The lost productivity, absenteeism, excess emergency department and hospital use by the other 19 out of 20 workers with alcohol problems who are not treated add $61 billion (or approximately $200 for every man, woman and child in the United States) to the nation's health …
Implementation Of Eaps, Mark Attridge, Patricia Herlihy, Dave Sharar, Tom Amaral, Tracy Mcpherson, Diane Stephenson, Tom Bjornson, Rich Paul, Lisa Teems, Eric Goplerud, Sandra Routledge
Implementation Of Eaps, Mark Attridge, Patricia Herlihy, Dave Sharar, Tom Amaral, Tracy Mcpherson, Diane Stephenson, Tom Bjornson, Rich Paul, Lisa Teems, Eric Goplerud, Sandra Routledge
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
This Research Note describes how to effectively implement employee assistance program services in an organization.
Analysis Of State Laws Permitting Intoxication Exclusions In Insurance Contracts And Their Judicial Enforcement, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Henry Van Dyck, Mandy Bartoshesky, Joel B. Teitelbaum
Analysis Of State Laws Permitting Intoxication Exclusions In Insurance Contracts And Their Judicial Enforcement, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Henry Van Dyck, Mandy Bartoshesky, Joel B. Teitelbaum
Health Policy and Management Issue Briefs
This Policy Brief reviews judicial decisions construing state laws that permit insurers to include intoxication exclusionary clauses in their insurance policies. The cases and state laws examined in this analysis span health, life, disability, accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D), workers compensation, and unemployment insurance. Some variant of the intoxication exclusionary clause appears across all of these products, depending on the state. The widespread nature of such laws has its roots in the 1947 Uniform Accident and Sickness Policy Provision Law (UPPL), a model statute whose broader public policy purpose was to avoid the use of insurance to protect against the …
A Sound Investment: Identifying And Treating Alcohol Problems, Jeffrey Hon
A Sound Investment: Identifying And Treating Alcohol Problems, Jeffrey Hon
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
The direct cost of alcohol problems is nowhere more evident than in the nation's hospitals and emergency rooms. One-fourth of all people admitted to general hospitals have alcoholism and as many as 30 percent of emergency room patients are problem drinkers, people who may not be dependent on alcohol, but drink in ways that endanger health and well-being. But these individuals are seeking medical attention for alcohol related illness and injury, not for their drinking. As a result, untreated alcoholism is driving up healthcare costs for both the public and private sector.
An Evaluation Of Contracts Between Managed Care Organizations And Community Mental Health And Substance Abuse Treatment And Prevention Agencies, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Karen Silver, Elizabeth Wehr
An Evaluation Of Contracts Between Managed Care Organizations And Community Mental Health And Substance Abuse Treatment And Prevention Agencies, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Karen Silver, Elizabeth Wehr
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
This study represents a descriptive, point-in-time examination of the structure and content of provider network agreements between managed care organizations (MCOs) and community mental health and substance abuse (MH/SA) treatment and prevention agencies. This is not a study of the quality of managed care systems. Instead, this analysis is designed to assess provider contracts (one of the basic legal instruments on which the managed care system rests) and to identify the meaning of these instruments for MH/SA service providers, group purchasers, MCOs, individual consumers and their families, and public policy.