The pilot yielded savings to Medicare of $42.3 million, or roughly 10% of expected spending, at the seven participating hospitals.
After it generated more than an average 40% return on investment for savers, showed evidence of benefits for women and reducing tension between ethnic groups, we are scaling up our pilot village savings and loans association (VSLA) programme in the isolated, conflict-affected region of South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
He has partnered with Oxfam America to pilot his savings and investing program.
--Residents of Traer, Iowa, a community of 1,700 people about 110 miles northwest of Des Moines, have joined in a one-year pilot energy-saving project.
The money is intended to continue piloting cost-saving improvements to the next census, which lawmakers have told CB officials must not cost more than the $13 billion spent on the 2010 census.
Inspired by the urban research findings, Save the Children staff in Malawi quickly responded by designing the Ndirande Care and Savings pilot project, and then mobilized resources to address six of 12 key recommendations coming out of our discussions with the community.
In the next section, we describe the pilot's shared savings program.
Meanwhile, early versions of the Republican-written state budget include cost-saving pilot programs like changes in medical payments, with little mention that they are key components of the much-maligned federal law.
In a year when U.S. politicians have been battered by constituents' claims that the U.S. government is trying to take away their medical choices, a potentially cost-saving pilot allowing for more choice in Medicare seems, on the surface, a political slam-dunk.
The reduction also calls for the elimination of two pilots at a savings of about $50,000, Small said.
