The handbook of employee benefits : health and group benefits / Jerry S. Rosenbloom, editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The environment of employee benefit plans -- The environment of employee benefit plans / Jerry S. Rosenbloom -- Functional approach to employee benefit plans / G. Victor Hallman -- Risk concepts and employee benefit plans / Gary K. Stone -- Medical and other health benefits -- Health plan evolution / Dennis F. Mahoney -- Appendix A: to Chapter 4: health care cost equation -- Appendix B: to Chapter 4: vision care and hearing care plans -- Health care cost containment : demand side approaches / David Harvey -- Managing and measuring care management intervention programs / Ian Duncan -- Consumer-driven health plans -- Appendix to Chapter 7: consumer-driven health plans : popularity and growth / Diane Luedtke -- Understanding managed behavioral health care benefits / Edward Jones, Ann McClanathan and Dagmar King -- Health care quality : are we getting our money's worth / William J. Mayer -- Pharmacy benefits -- Appendix A: to Chapter 10: definitions -- Appendix B: to Chapter 10: pharmaceutical pricing -- Appendix C: to Chapter 10: medication equivalence -- Appendix D: to Chapter 10: specialty/biotechnology medications and their place in prescription drug plans / Craig S. Stern -- Dental plan design / Ronald L. Huling -- Long-term care insurance / Jan McFarland -- Disability income benefits / John S. Roberts and Mark A. Andruss -- Life insurance benefits -- Group life insurance / William H. Rabel and Jerry S. Rosenbloom -- Business uses of life insurance -- Appendix A: to Chapter 15: permanent life insurance plans and features -- Appendix B: to Chapter 15: universal life insurance programs / Susan Conant -- Work/life benefits -- Time-off benefits and family and medical leave programs -- Appendix A: to Chapter 16: flsa exempt and nonexempt workers -- Appendix B: to Chapter 16: guidelines for the term "serious health condition" under the family and medical leave act / Serafina Maniaci -- Dependent care programs / Ann Costello -- Selected additional benefits : educational assistance programs, group legal services plans, transportation fringe benefits and voluntary benefits / Craig J. Davidson -- Financial planning as an employee benefit / Robert T. LeClair -- Social insurance programs -- Social security and medicare : focus on disability, survivorship, and medicare provisions / Robert J. Myers -- Medicare part D: prescription drug benefits -- Appendix A: to Chapter 21: beneficiary communications -- Appendix B to Chapter 21: Part D cost projections -- Appendix C to Chapter 21: Part D changes due to MIPPA -- Appendix D to Chapter 21: prescription drug events (PDEs) -- Appendix E to Chapter 21: quality measures in Part D -- Appendix F to Chapter 21: drug categories covered on medicare Part B -- Appendix G to Chapter 21: details of drug coverage in Part D formularies / Craig S. Stern -- Workers' compensation -- Appendix to Chapter 22: calculating insurance premiums / John F. Burton, Jr -- Unemployment compensation : US Department of Labor -- Employee benefit plan administration -- Strategic benefit plan management / Dennis F. Mahoney -- Cafeteria plan design and administration / Amy L. Cavanaugh -- Fiduciary liability issues under ERISA / Alan P. Cleveland -- Communicating employee benefits programs -- Appendix to Chapter 27: key reporting and disclosure requirements of the patient protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 / Serafina Maniaci -- Group and health benefit plan financial management -- Federal tax law requirements for group welfare benefit plans / Everett T. Allen, Jr. -- Funding health benefit plans : insured arrangements / Richard Tewksbury -- Funding health benefit plans : self-funded and captive arrangementsrichard l. / Lewksbury and Timothy Luedtke -- Employee benefit plan issues -- Welfare benefits for retirees / Richard Ostuw and Stuart H. Alden -- Employee benefit plans for small companies / Ronald L. Woodmansee -- Multiemployer plans / David Blumenstein -- The globalization of employee benefits / Mark S. Allen and Tony R. Broomhead.