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Agenda: The Ymca Groundbreaking Celebration For The New Winston Family Ymca, First Coast Ymca

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

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Newsletter: Community Matters, United Way Of Northeast Florida

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

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Presentation: Florida Blue ‘Here For You’ Duval County, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

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Sayfie Review Florida Leaders’ Summit 2013 Invitation, Florida Leaders' Summit 2013

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

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Presentation: Slide Printouts For Florida Blue In The Community, Florida Blue

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

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Can Consumers Make Affordable Care Affordable? The Value Of Choice Architecture, Eric J. Johnson, Ran Hassin, Tom Baker, Allison T. Bajger, Galen Treuer

All Faculty Scholarship

Starting this October, tens of millions will be choosing health coverage on a state or federal health insurance exchange as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. We examine how well people make these choices, how well they think they do, and what can be done to improve these choices. We conducted 6 experiments asking people to choose the most cost-effective policy using websites modeled on current exchanges. Our results suggest there is significant room for improvement. Without interventions, respondents perform at near chance levels and show a significant bias, overweighting out-of-pocket expenses and deductibles. Financial incentives do …

Following English Footsteps? An Empirical Study Of Singapore's Reported Insurance Judgments And Disputes Between 1965 And 2012, Christopher C. H. Chen

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This article presents an empirical study of the development of Singapore’s insurance contract law in relation to English law. The gene of Singapore’s insurance law is very English. The empirical data show a lack of momentum in driving insurance law forward by case law. This may justify further legislative reform to address not only the known doctrinal issues inherited from English law but also the specific problems facing consumer insurance. Singapore’s competitiveness in the global insurance market will be an instrumental factor to determine how far Singapore continues to follow English law in the future.

Event Program: Readingpals Green Eggs And Ham Celebration Breakfast, United Way Of Northeast Florida

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

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Event Program: 2013 Eve Awards Luncheon, Florida Times Union

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

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Improving Health Outcomes For Children (Ihoc): Summary Of Pediatric Quality Measures For Children Enrolled In Mainecare Ffy 2009 - Ffy 2012, Nathaniel J. Anderson Ms, Mph, Tracey Meagher

Population Health & Health Policy

his report, authored by USM Muskie School research staff, presents the results of the 16 CHIPRA Core Measures that were collected using MaineCare claims or Vital Statistics data and reported in the State of Maine’s FFY 2012 CHIP Annual Report to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Also included in this report are an additional three measures from the Improving Health Outcomes for Children (IHOC) project’s Master List of Pediatric Measures. In addition to presenting results in graphs and narrative, this report also provides measure definitions and background information about each measure topic.

The goal of this document …

Global Budgets, Payment Reform And Single Payer: Understanding Vemont's Health Reform, Trish Riley

Population Health & Health Policy

The Muskie School of Public Service hosted two health policy colloquia this April to promote informed discussion throughout the state regarding MaineCare coverage options under the ACA and the implications of Vermont’s move toward a single-payer system.The series, sponsored by the Muskie School Board of Visitors, offers community conversations in which experts from various disciplines and perspectives inform and engage the broader public to explore and debate critical policy issues. On April 22, community and sector leaders joined for Global Budgets, Payment Reform, and Single Payer: Understanding Vermont's Health Reform. Participants discussed Vermont's recent movie toward single payer health …

Malpractice Claims For Endoscopy, Lyndon V. Hernandez, Dominic Klyve, Scott E. Regenbogen

Mathematics Faculty Scholarship

AIM: To summarize the magnitude and time trends of endoscopy-related claims and to compare total malpractice indemnity according to specialty and procedure.

METHODS: We obtained data from a comprehensive database of closed claims from a trade association of professional liability insurance carriers, representing over 60% of practicing United States physicians. Total payments by procedure and year were calculated, and were adjusted for inflation (using the Consumer Price Index) to 2008 dollars. Time series analysis was performed to assess changes in the total value of claims for each type of procedure over time.

RESULTS: There were 1901 endoscopy-related closed claims against …

Obamacare Moving Forward: What Is The Prognosis?, Jan Ambrose Phd

Explorer Café

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Revenue Diversification And 501 (C) 6 Nonprofit Trade Associations: Technology Councils Of North American And The Pittsburgh Technology Council, Reuben Dacher-Shapiro

MPA Capstone Projects 2006 - 2015

Since 2009 the Pittsburgh Technology Council (PTC) has been experiencing a decrease in the revenue they generate from the sale of insurance to its members. This decrease is a significant problem because it is non-program related unrestricted revenue. This type of revenue is vital for PTC because it allows them to constantly adapt to the needs of their members in the volatile economic environment of the Southwestern Pennsylvania technology sector.

Examining Mainecare’S Coverage Options Under The Affordable Care Act, Erika C. Ziller Phd, Trish Riley

Population Health & Health Policy

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was designed to achieve nearly universal access to health coverage in the United States—in part by standardizing Medicaid eligibility across the country so that each state’s program would cover individuals with incomes below 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL), or $15,856 for an individual and $32,499 for a family of four in 2013 (see Figure 1).i However, in June 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that states could not be required to broaden Medicaid and retained the decision as a state option. States that choose to participate may do so by amending their state …

Event Program: Welcome To The First Coast Leadership Breakfast, American Heart Association

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

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Federal Health Care Reform: An Overview, Andrew F. Coburn Phd

Population Health & Health Policy

This policy brief discusses three of the main components of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as "Obamacare". These components are helath insurance coverage, delivery system improvement, and cost containment. The policy brief highlights some of the provision of the law that have already been implemented and those where importnat implementation decisions will have to be made. The brief is authored by Dr. Andrew Coburn, PhD, Professor of Public Health and Director of the Population Health and Health Policy program at the USM Muskie School, and was presented at the Maine Policy Leaders Academy Health Care …

Informational Outline: Florida Blue A Leading Innovator Enabling Healthy Communities, Florida Blue Foundation

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

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News & Views January 3, 2013, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

January 3, 2013 articles for Florida Blue employees.

Further Evidence On The Ability Of Fifo And Lifo Earnings To Predict Operating Cash Flows: An Industry Specific Analysis, Brock Murdoch, Bruce Dehning, Paul Krause

Accounting Faculty Articles and Research

The continuing convergence of U.S. GAAP with International Accounting Standards has brought into question the future use of the LIFO inventory method in the U.S. Since the Financial Accounting Standards Board (2010) has stipulated that earnings should aid investors and creditors in their quest to forecast future cash flows to the enterprise, this research examines whether FIFO earnings or LIFO earnings is preferable, for this purpose, as an aid to ex ante operating cash flow itself,over a three-year forecast horizon. We conclude that ex ante operating cash flows are quite useful in forecasting operating cash flows across industries for up …

Report: Florida Blue Foundation Impact Annual Evaluation Report, Florida Blue Foundation

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

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Booklet: Healthy Jacksonville Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition 2013 Stories From The Field. A Community Response To The 2009 Healthy Kids, Healthy Jacksonville Call To Action To Reduce Childhood Obesity, Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

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Booklet: Healthy Jacksonville Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition 2013 Healthy Kids, Healthy Jacksonville: Parent Resource Guide, Childhood Obesity Prevention Coalition

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

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Event Program: Junior Achievement Hall Of Fame, With Attachment: Program Addendum Insert, Wells Fargo

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

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2013 Annual Corporate Social Responsibility Report, Florida Blue Foundation

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

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Booklet: Florida Blue Foundation: 2013 Statewide Nursing Summit – Nursing In Florida: Celebrating The Past And Advancing The Future; Proceedings Summary, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

A booklet from the Florida Blue Foundation about the 2013 Statewide Nursing Summit – Nursing in Florida: Celebrating the Past and Advancing the Future; proceedings summary.

Booklet: Florida Blue Foundation: 2013 Statewide Nursing Summit – Nursing In Florida: Celebrating The Past And Advancing The Future; Schedule And Speakers, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

A booklet from the Florida Blue Foundation about the 2013 Statewide Nursing Summit – Nursing in Florida: Celebrating the Past and Advancing the Future; schedule and speakers.

Report On Collaboration Of Dr. Diane Horn With Dr. Michael Mcshane As Part Of The Climate Change And Sea Level Rise Initiative, Diane Horn, Michael K. Mcshane

CCSLRI Reports

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Measuring Quality In Diabetes Care: An Expert-Based Statistical Approach, Dimitris Bertsimas, David Czerwinski, Michael Kane

Faculty Publications

We present a methodology for using health insurance claims data to monitor quality of care. The method uses a statistical model trained on the quality ratings of a medical expert. In a pilot study, the expert rated the quality of care received over the course of two years by 101 diabetes patients. A logistic regression model accurately identified the quality of care for 86% of the patients. Because the model uses data derived from patients’ health insurance claims it can be used to monitor the care being received by a large patient population. One important use of the model is …

“You Want Insurance With That?” Using Behavioral Economics To Protect Consumers From Add-On Insurance Products, Tom Baker, Peter Siegelman

All Faculty Scholarship

Persistently high profits on “insurance” for small value losses sold as an add-on to other products or services (such as extended warranties sold with consumer electronics, loss damage waivers sold with a car rental, and credit life insurance sold with a loan) pose a twofold challenge to the standard economic analysis of insurance. First, expected utility theory teaches that people should not buy insurance for small value losses. Second, the market should not in the long run permit sellers to charge prices that greatly exceed the cost of providing the insurance. Combining the insights of the Gabaix and Laibson shrouded …