Health Care Cost Containment in the 1980s

Abstract

Benefits administrators—and their employers—can no longer ignore the skyrocketing costs of health care. The wide range of measures explored here for controlling these costs include negotiating with providers, analyzing medical claims, enlisting the aid of employee/patients, structuring benefit programs to eliminate excesses, and setting up wellness programs to alter the lifestyles—smoking, drinking, poor nutrition—that result in crippling, even fatal diseases.