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Maven Clinic . 2025. Maven’s state of women’s & family health benefits: How rising costs and evolving needs are reshaping workplace benefits . New York, NY: Maven Clinic, 35 pp.

Annotation: This report presents findings on the state of women's and family health benefits in the workplace based on two surveys conducted in October-November 2024. It addresses challenges facing employees and employers, including rising healthcare costs, burnout among working parents, and increased anxiety around reproductive health. The report highlights how companies are responding through expanded benefits, with 69% planning to increase family health benefits vendors in the coming years. It discusses the benefits of offering comprehensive women's and family health support, including improved employee retention and reduced healthcare costs. The report includes specific statistics on employer and employee priorities, testimonials from benefits leaders, and guidance for designing effective family benefits programs. Sections cover topics such as fertility support, parenting challenges, men's reproductive health, and the role of digital health solutions in improving outcomes.

Keywords: Employer health costs, Family support services, Health Benefits Plans, Employee, Insurance benefits, Maternal health, Perinatal care, Reproductive health services, Statistics, Surveys, Trends, Women's health, Workplace health promotion

The Arc of the United States. 2012. The Affordable Care Act: What disability advocates need to know. Washington, DC: The Arc of the United States, 15 pp. (National Policy Matters)

Annotation: This paper outlines the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to help the disability community to better understand the law and the many benefits it can provide to people with disabilities and help to move states forward with implementation. Topics include how the PPACA expands health insurance coverage in both the private and public sectors, expands essential benefits, impacts Medicaid, expands long-term services and support, and emphasizes prevention. It also discusses provisions important to people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities.

Keywords: Disabilities, Disability benefits, Expanded eligibility, Health care reform, Health insurance, Medicaid, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

National Maternal and Child Oral Health Policy Center. 2011. Exchanges and dental coverage: Building on an employer base. Washington, DC: National Maternal and Child Oral Health Policy Center, 4 pp. (Issue brief)

Annotation: This issue brief provides an overview of private dental insurance coverage, who has coverage and how they obtain it, and the possible impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on employer-sponsored dental benefits. Topics addressed include employer insurance purchasing patterns, state exchanges, and coverage for children and families. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Child health, Children, Employee benefits, Employer initiatives, Federal legislation, Financing, Health insurance, Oral health, Public policy, State initiatives

Kraczkowsky K, Reagin A, Sherrets D. 2009. An employer's guide to child and adolescent mental health: Recommendations for the workplace, health plans, and employee assistance programs. Washington, DC: National Business Group on Health, 39 pp.

Annotation: This monograph examines the impact of child and adolescent behavioral health disorders on the workplace by direct and indirect costs, its epidemiology in the U.S., and treatment and cost trends. It also describes the state of child and adolescent behavioral health treatment and makes recommendations to employers on how to better address this challenge with adjustments to their health plan and to their workplace culture.

Keywords: Adolescents, Behavior disorders, Children, Employee benefits, Health insurance, Mental health, Workplace health promotion, Youth

National Center for Children in Poverty. 2005. Children, Social Security, and private accounts: 10 questions for policymakers. New York, NY: National Center for Children in Poverty, 2 pp.

Finch RA, Phillips K. 2005. An employer's guide to behavioral health services: A roadmap and recommendations for evaluating, designing, and implementing behavioral health services. Washington, DC: National Business Group on Health, 95 pp.

Annotation: This guide examines the employer's role in behavioral health care, a continuum of health services for individuals at risk or, or having, mental, behavioral, or addictive disorders. It examines major trends in the epidemiology, treatment, and cost of behavioral healthcare in the United State, discusses the state of employer-sponsored behavioral health services, and makes recommendations to improve the design, delivery, and purchase of employer-sponsored behavioral healthcare services. It also provides an overview of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health.

Keywords: Behavior disorders, Employee benefits, Employer initiatives, Health care programs, Health insurance programs, Mental disorders, Mental health, Strategic plans, Substance abuse

Martin KE. 2002. Shifting responsibilities: Models of defined contribution. Washington, DC: Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy, 13 pp.

Annotation: This report begins with a brief review of the existing literature on defined contribution (i.e., a set amount of money that employers provide toward an employee's health coverage). It then presents a typology of various defined contribution models, focusing on the commonalities and differences among them and how they affect the decisions that employees, consumers, and health plans must make. It also considers the implications of defined contribution models on tax policy, risk segmentation, and risk adjustment. The report is divided into the following sections: foreword; introduction; barriers to widespread adoption of defined contribution; actors in health coverage and the roles they play; defined contribution typology; implications of each model; and references. The report was produced for the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation's Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) program.

Keywords: Employee benefits, Employer initiatives, Health care financing, Health insurance, Models

Sing M, Hill S, Puffer L. 2001. Improving mental health insurance benefits without increasing costs. Rockville, MD: U.S. Center for Mental Health Services , 80 pp. (Special report)

Annotation: This report provides employee benefits managers and purchasers with guidance on how to purchase mental health insurance benefits that promote cost-effectiveness, access to treatment, and high-quality care. Sections include: mental disorders in the workplace: prevalence, impact and treatment; typical benefits packages for mental health treatment; improving mental health insurance benefit design; and mental health benefits packages that incorporate the design recommendations. The appendices provide information on a case study and advisors and consultants to the report. Tables throughout the report illustrate a variety of benefit package features.

Keywords: Access to health care, Cost effectiveness, Costs, Employee benefits, Employer initiatives, Health insurance, Health maintenance organizations, Mental health, Mental health services, Preferred provider organizations, Private sector

Washington Business Group on Health. 2000. Promoting healthy pregnancies: Counseling and contraception as the first step. Washington, DC: Washington Business Group on Health, 8 pp. (Family health in brief; issue no. 3)

Meyer JA, Wicks EK, Anthony SE, Rosenberg LE, Perry MJ. 1999. Business and employee attitudes toward the new State Children's Health Insurance Program: Results from a national survey and focus groups. Washington, DC: Economic and Social Research Institute, 91 pp.

U.S. General Accounting Office. 1997. Employment-based health insurance: Costs increase and family coverage decreases. Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office, 36 pp.

Annotation: This report describes how employer provided health insurance has eroded over the last decade, as premiums have gone up, and employers have raised the cost to employees, limited insured benefits, or stopped providing health insurance benefits to employees. It mentions the switch to managed care programs and the loss of insurance for dependents. There is a brief mention of Medicare and the increase in the number of people who have neither public nor private health insurance.

Keywords: Access to health care, Employee benefits, Health care financing, Health insurance, Private sector, Statistics, Uninsured persons

U.S. General Accounting Office. 1997. Medicaid: Three states' experiences in buying employer-based health insurance. Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office, 20 pp.

Annotation: This report examines three states considered to be successfully implementing section 1906 of the Social Security Act, enacted in the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990. The purpose of the report is to determine the extent to which these states are purchasing employer based health insurance for individuals eligible for Medicaid and achieving savings, the cost effectiveness criteria used by the states, outreach efforts, and legislative reforms suggested to improve states' efforts. The states examined are Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

Keywords: Cost containment, Employee benefits, Health insurance, Iowa, Medicaid, Pennsylvania, Texas

Hearne J. 1997. Coordinating children's coverage expansions with employer-sponsored coverage. Washington, DC: Institute for Health Policy Solutions, 21 pp.

Annotation: This report summarizes the relationship between the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage expansions and employer financed coverage, and presents policy alternatives for coordinating these coverage venues. It provides brief background information on Title XXI and issues related to employer coverage. It discusses policy makers' concern about crowd out of private employer financed coverage and references related research findings and pertinent data. It also presents approaches to address crowd out concerns. The report then discusses approaches to subsidize employee contributions for families with uninsured children and access to employer financed coverage. The final sections discuss administrative issues and analyzes trade offs in choosing between Medicaid expansions and CHIP. The three appendices summarize related provisions of Title XXI, present a hypothetical state policy package to coordinate public and employer coverage, and present distribution data on employer contributions.

Keywords: Access to health care, Employee benefits, Medicaid, Social Security Act, State Children's Health Insurance Program, Title XXI, Uninsured persons

National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health. 1996. PIC briefing book: The business perspective on maternal and child health. Arlington, VA: National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, ca. 200 pp.

Annotation: This loose-leaf notebook contains articles, pamphlets, and reports that discuss the corporate world's attitudes, perceptions, and policies on maternal and child health. Topics include the length of stay in hospitals for mothers and infants following birth, breastfeeding in the workplace, women as mothers and parents within the workplace, and school health and school issues. Other topics include health promotion in the workplace, worksite wellness, assuring the quality of health plans, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), and other business issues such as managed care, medical savings accounts, and health purchasing cooperatives. The materials were prepared for the January 1996 meeting of the MCH Partnership for Information and Communication Interorganizational Work Group. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Breastfeeding, Business, Child health, Employee benefits, Health policy, Hospitalization, Insurance, Length of stay, Managed care, Maternal health, Perinatal care, Policy development, Prenatal care, Quality assurance, Retirement, School health, Workplace health promotion

Silverman C, Anzick M, Boyce S, Campbell S, McDonnell K, Reilly A, Snider S. 1995. EBRI databook on employee benefits. (3rd ed.). Washington, DC: Employee Benefit Research Institute, 763 pp.

Annotation: This book provides extensive statistics on employee benefits. It provides an overview of the employee benefit system; and it covers retirement benefits; health benefits; and other benefits that include work and family related benefits, work schedules, vacation and leave, and disability coverage, among others. It includes data on small, medium, and large private establishments, small independent businesses, and state and local governments. It also covers aspects of federal laws that regulate the operations of various benefit programs. Appendices includes demographic and economic data and the text of various relevant laws. A glossary, reference list, source organization list, and a contact list of federal and congressional agencies are also included.

Keywords: Demographics, Employee benefits, Federal government, Health insurance, Local government, Regulations, Retirement, Salaries, State government, Statistics

National Governors' Association. 1995. Innovative state health initiatives for children. Washington, DC: National Governors' Association, 34 pp. (StateLine)

Annotation: This report presents the results of a survey taken to determine what states are doing to provide health insurance coverage for uninsured children who are not eligible for Medicaid. It outlines the nature of the problem, reviews other recent studies of uninsured children, and describes the design and methodology of the survey. It highlights the findings, provides profiles of specific programs, and presents lessons learned that would be useful to state policymakers. Data tables are used to present the findings of the survey. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Children, Data, Employee benefits, Health insurance, Medicaid, Private sector, Program descriptions, Public health programs, Public private partnerships, State initiatives, Surveys, Uninsured persons

Gibbs J. 1987. Genetic Services Benefits Study: Final Report. Chicago, IL: Health Services Foundation and Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, 50 pp.

Annotation: This report presents the final results of the Genetic Services Demonstration--an information-gathering project that assisted Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans interested in expanding their coverage of genetic services. The categories of data studied were cost, utilization, and account satisfaction; the period of data collection was February, 1984 through August, 1986. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Final reports, Genetic counseling, Genetic screening, Insurance benefits, Insurance companies
   

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