Article: IBM To Provide Employees With 100% Primary Health Care Coverage, New Wellness Rebate.

Article: IBM to pick up the tab for workers' primary ...
Business Insurance;  November 9, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... cost burden, IBM Corp. is taking ... of the cost of primary care for its employees ... families have one primary care doctor, she said ... employees enrolled in IBM's high-deductible ... of patients in primary care, he said. "IBM is to be commended ...

Article: IBM, primary care physicians pursue system ...
Internal Medicine News;  February 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Aprototype primary care-based medical ... technology giant IBM could eventually ... efficiency of primary care. The ACP views the IBM project as part ... surprisingly, primary care physicians "wanted ... he said. IBM now considers ...

Article: IBM To Provide Employees With 100% Primary Health Care ...
M2 Presswire;  October 30, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... focus on wellness and primary care, IBM employees have become ... rising more slowly.' IBM's expanded support for primary care will lower costs for ... from an in-network primary care doctor. It enhances IBM's coverage for preventive ...

Article: IBM to give most employees 100% primary care ...
The Boston Globe;  October 30, 2009 ;     576 words ... ... and strategy at IBM. "When people ... barriers to getting primary care, you catch things ... prevent things." IBM said it has invested ... everyone," she said. IBM will have to blend ... financial incentives for primary care with information ...

Article: Vermont's Primary Care woes
Vermont Business Magazine;  December 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... believe there is a shortage of primary care doctors. Other findings revealed ... consensus (76 percent) of the primary care doctors in the survey said that ... technology and strategic initiatives at IBM, primary care needs to play a bigger role ...

Article: Crisis looming on primary care front; Insurers ...
Business Insurance;  April 28, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... attract doctors to primary care, said George Chedraoui ... health care leader for IBM Corp. in Research ... is to compensate primary care doctors at levels ... country without fixing primary care,'' Mr. Chedraoui ... Wishful Thinking. IBM provides health care ...

Article: Firms team up on programs to promote primary care; ...
Business Insurance;  July 6, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... pursue careers in primary care, where there is ... relationship with a primary care physician who is ... Healthcare Management at IBM Corp., one of the ... they administer: IBM, Centura Hospital ... We've got to get primary care to focus on keeping ...