In effect, "you play one manufacturer off against another," said James R. Lang, former president of Anthem Prescription Management, which administered drug benefits for five million people.
According to the Graduate Management Admissions Council, which administers the GMAT, 81% of the 3,710 new graduate management programs introduced worldwide in the last ten years showed up outside North America.
The plans would be approved and supervised by the government's Office of Personnel Management, which administers the health insurance plans offered to members of Congress and federal employees.
(A spokeswoman for the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, which administers the state parks, said Festival Network had paid its outstanding debts).
One may get a sense of its scope and inclusiveness — its supermarket-ness — in the way that the Office of Personnel Management, which administers the program, explains it to federal employees.
The Office of Personnel Management, which administers the federal work force, did not respond to questions about the study, but in the past it has criticized reports that say federal workers are overpaid.
One novel feature of the bill is a provision aimed at raising the environmental consciousness of the Bureau of Land Management, which administers the bulk of the country's public lands for often contrary purposes, including conservation and oil and gas drilling.
The money goes into a fund which administers the scheme.
program at the Educational Testing Service, which administers the tests.
The number of participating clubs has grown dramatically in the past few years, from about 400 in 2002, said Jody Steele, a spokeswoman for Tempe, Ariz.-based Axia Health Management, which administers the program.
School lunches cost the government $11 billion in 2011, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the program.
