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April 2009
- April 2009 Public Sector Letter, "Managing Through Fiscal Stress: Avoiding Health Plan Side Effects During an Economic Recession"
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March 2009
- March 2009 Public Sector Letter, "Managing Through Fiscal Stress: Reductions in Force"
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January 2009
- January 2009 Public Sector Letter, "Market Value Liability and Public Pension Plans: A Continuing Controversy"
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June 2008
- June 2008 Public Sector Letter, "Total Health Management: A Targeted Approach to Improving the Quality of Care and Ensuring Appropriate Utilization"
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November 2007
- November 2007 Public Sector Letter, "In Search of OPEB Remedies: Good Medicine Includes Managing Retiree Health Costs"
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August 2007
- August 2007 Public Sector Letter, "Retiree Health Care: Implications of OPEB Liabilities"
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June 2007
- June 2007 Public Sector Letter, "Strengthening the Safety Net: Strategies for Improving the Stop-Loss Coverage that Provides Protection from Large Claims Costs"
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May 2007
- May 2007 Public Sector Letter, "Scrutinizing DC Plan Fees and Expenses for Transparency, Awareness and Disclosure"
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December 2006
- December 2006 Public Sector Letter, "Providing Clarity Amid Confusion: Communicating Medicare Part D Choices"
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September 2006
- September 2006 Public Sector Letter, "Designing a Retiree Rx Strategy for 2007 and Beyond"
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June 2006
- June 2006 Public Sector Letter, "Safeguarding Private Information in the Public Sector: The Importance of Security Audits"
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June 2005
- June 2005 Public Sector Letter, "New Coverage Choices and Cost-Management Options: Developments Affecting Public Sector Prescription Drug Plans"
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March 2005
- March 2005 Public Sector Letter, "A Return to Actuarial Solvency: 'Financial Engineering' for Public Sector Pension Plans"
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October 2004
- October 2004 Public Sector Letter, "Absence Management Strategies in the Public Sector"
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April 2004
- April 2004 Public Sector Letter, "Complying with the HIPAA Security Rules: The Countdown Begins"
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February 2004
- February 2004 Public Sector Letter, "DROP Update: The Latest Variations on a Popular Theme"
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September 2003
- September 2003 Public Sector Letter, "Achieving Win-Win Negotiations in Troubled Economic Times: The Pivotal Role of Labor-Management Committees"
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July 2003
- July 2003 Public Sector Letter, "Confronting a Considerable - and Growing - Challenge in the Public Sector: Affording Retiree Health Coverage"
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April 2003
- April 2003 Public Sector Letter, "A Three-Pronged Approach to Managing Health Costs"
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December 2002
- December 2002 Public Sector Letter, "Reaping Rewards: The Benefits of Conducting Regular Reviews of Defined Contribution Plan Design and Service-Provider Performance"
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November 2002
- November 2002 Public Sector Letter, "Strategies for Navigating the "Perfect Retirement Benefit Storm'"
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June 2002
- June 2002 Public Sector Letter, "Confronting Tyrannosaurus Rx: Strategies for Health Plans Being Devoured by Rampaging Prescription Drug Costs"
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February 2002
- February 2002 Public Sector Letter, "Providing Public Sector Services in a Time of Change: The Total Rewards Perspective"
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December 2000
- December 2000 Public Sector Letter, "Win-Win Strategies for Handling Paid Time Off, Part II: Paid Time-Off Programs"
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November 2000
- November 2000 Public Sector Letter, "Win-Win Strategies for Handling Paid Time Off, Part I: Disability Management"
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June 2000
- June 2000 Government Employees Benefits Update, "A Prescription for Treating the High Cost of Drug Coverage: PBM Reviews and Follow-up"
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February 2000
- February 2000 Government Employees Benefits Update, "Pay-for-Performance in the Public Sector"
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July 1999
- July 1999 Government Employees Benefits Update, "Taking a Closer Look at Prescription Drug Benefits"
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May 1999
- May 1999 Government Employees Benefits Update, "What Changes in the CPI Might Mean for Public Retirement Systems and their Retirees"
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September 1998
- September 1998 Government Employees Benefits Update, "Charting a Course and Staying Alert at the Helm: Strategic Planning for State and Local Government Plans"
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July 1998
- July 1998 Government Employees Benefits Update, "Long-term Care Insurance: A Benefit Whose Time Has Come?"
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March 1998
- March 1998 Government Employees Benefits Update, "Gearing Up for the 21st Century: Using the Latest Technology to Streamline Plan Administration, Improve Service and Avoid Potential Systems Problems"
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January 1998
- SPECIAL ISSUE OF INTEREST TO GOVERNMENT EMPLOYERS: Executive Letter, Vol. 22, Nos. 4 & 5, 1998, "Medicare+Choice: What Employers Need to Know"
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October 1997
- October 1997 Government Employees Benefits Update, "Flexible Benefits in the Public Sector: What, Why, Why Now and How?"
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July 1997
- July 1997 Government Employees Benefits Update,"Encouraging Employee Involvement in Service Improvements: Gain Sharing in the Public Sector"
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May 1997
- May 1997 Government Employees Benefits Update, "Checking Your Choice: Performance Audits of Health Claims Administrators"
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- March 1997 Government Employees Benefits Update, "The Segal Company's 1996 Survey of State Employee Health Benefit Plans Confirms Strong Growth in Managed Care"
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January 1997
- January 1997 Government Employees Benefits Update, "Defined Contribution Plans in the Public Sector"
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September 1996
- September 1996 Government Employees Benefits Update, "Latest BLS Data on Employee Benefits in State and Local Governments"
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July 1996
- July 1996 Government Employees Benefits Update, "A New Pension Accounting Rule Takes Effect... Another Will Follow"
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April 1996
- April 1996 Government Employees Benefits Update, "Prefunding Retiree Health Care Costs"
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