Tracy Cassidy This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. CNP Press Release June 11 2001 - New Commonwealth Fund/CNP Study Reveals Troubling Erosion...

   www.cnponline.org/Press%20Rele - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/11/2001   Last Visited: 4/26/2006

   Tracy Cassidy, Management Consultant, William M. Mercer

2. 2. 2001_01 | FEHBP: Blueprint for the Future? Or Trapped in a Lockbox?

   www.managedcaremag.com/archive - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/1/2001   Last Visited: 2/9/2002

   Probably not well, predicts Tracy Cassidy, a principal with William M. Mercer.
   
   "If the company you work for and the company I work for decided that they wanted to get together and purchase health insurance so that they could have bigger buying power, they would have to form a multi-employer trust," says Cassidy. "There's paperwork involved. If your employer and my employer have people in different states, it's subject to state laws for filings and that type of thing."
   
   There would be, in other words, complications.
   
   "Where would the money go?"
   ...
   says Cassidy. "That's the complicating factor. Does the money go directly to the insurance company or does employees' money go someplace before it goes to the insurance company? If it goes someplace before it goes to the insurance companies, that's what gets regulated. If it's an employee's money and somebody's going to hold it and could or could not use it for the insurance, that's when the regulatory issues kick in.
   
   Disparate group
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   Recently, the fluidity within the FEHB program has not been solely in how members chose plans, points out Cassidy, of William M. Mercer.
   
   "There were about 65 HMOs that dropped out of the FEHB program last year, and this year, I think, there were another 35," says Cassidy. "Some of them are like Prudential, which is being integrated into Aetna U.S. Healthcare - so that makes sense. Other HMOs out there just decided, 'We're not going to renew.'"

3. 3. Focus on Health and Welfare Plans

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   Published on: 3/13/2000   Last Visited: 5/12/2002

   Speaker: Tracy Cassidy, Health Practice Leader, William M. Mercer, Incorporated
   
   Overview of Mercer/Foster Higgins Annual Benefits Survey Impact of Market Compression and Enrollment Shifts Employer Strategies for the Future
   
   II. 9:45-10:45 a.m. Benefit Communication on the Internet