We examine the relation between public pension plan chief investment officer (CIO) compensation and plans’ performance. Higher paid CIOs outperform their counterparts by 47–60 basis points per year, largely through increased superior in private equity real estate. This outperformance generates an additional $74.91–$95.63 million economic value. Plans offering higher hire better educated are mor...

T LEAST 120 million people in .A the United States today have some form of voluntary medical care insurance. This protection against the costs of hospital and medical care is provided by varied types of insurance. Some segments of the population are covered by more than one type-usually for different benefits but sometimes for the same benefit. The four generally recognized categories of insure...

OBJECTIVES To assess the adequacy of the existing strategic plans and compare the format and content of health sector strategic plans with the guidelines in selected countries of the African region. DATA SOURCE The health strategic plans for Gambia, Liberia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which are kept at the WHO/AFRO, were reviewed. DATA EXTRACTION All health strategic plans among the Anglo...

Views expressed here are those of the authors and not of the institutions with which they are affiliated. Abstract Roughly 25 percent of Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in a private Medicare Advantage plan, a fraction that has been growing steadily in recent years. Because these plans are " at risk " for the cost of their enrollees' care, they have an incentive to attract and retain differe...

INTRODUCTION The US Public Health Service urges providers to screen patients for smoking and advise smokers to quit. Yet, these practices are not widely implemented in clinical practice. This study provides national estimates of systems-level strategies used by private health insurance plans to influence provider delivery of smoking cessation activities. METHODS Data are from a nationally rep...