51. Now, though, the companies are projecting their cost increases for the entire coming year and figuring them into the current monthly bill. 52. Now the only adjustments will be to offset contractual labor cost increases as they occur. 53. Other cost increases were attributed to new foreign offices, technology and salaries. 54. OPM reported no cost increase in health insurance coverage as a result of the contraceptive requirement because many insurers were already offering a limited form of contraception coverage. 55. Pharmaceutical cost increases are outstripping all other health sectors and threaten to surpass total hospital expenditures in the next year or two. 56. Reserve funds that might otherwise be used to address U.S. cost increases have been siphoned off to develop hardware that could substitute for the Russian module. 57. Rising demand for prescription drugs and the movement away from rewarding physician groups for keeping costs down are helping fuel the cost increases, according to the study. 58. Sales recruiting and training accounted for the bulk of the cost increase, said Allaire. 59. She has some savings for that, but ultimately, depending on how long he lived, it would be at a sum cost increase to the taxpayer. 60. Sherrie Schmidt, dean of libraries at Arizona State University, frets over the galloping cost increases of key publications, especially in the sciences and medicine. |