Sentence examples for cost containment measures from inspiring English sources

"Some of the cost containment measures they generally apply may not be relevant now," he said.

The broadcaster said a "targeted programme of cost containment measures" had helped reduce operating expenses by £5.5m, to £19.1m.

Ken Brown, a spokesman for the State Division of the Budget, said that since 1994 Governor Pataki had saved localities $2.8 billion through Medicaid cost containment measures.

We responded in the second quarter with additional cost containment measures and will continue to do so throughout the balance of the year".

To place such incentives on physicians is the goal of supply-side cost containment measures, such as utilization review and capitation.

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and other national organizations drew attention to the problem, saying they were concerned that patients' safety may have been compromised by cost containment measures and the increase in the number of out-patient operations performed at ambulatory surgical centers.

But there's a side that's often forgotten: the so-called pay-fors and the cost-containment measures.

James F. Hanley, commissioner of the city's Office of Labor Relations, which administers the employee health benefits program, said, "We are always looking at cost-containment measures".

Cost-containment measures have led to a constant increase in the number of patients cared for as outpatients.

Surprisingly, one of the law's most useful cost-containment measures may be a tax pay-for: the excise tax on high-priced insurance plans.

Re "The Next Retirement Time Bomb" (Dec. 5), which described the escalating retiree health care costs facing public agencies: State and local governments need to consider nontraditional cost-containment measures.