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APRIL 16, 2012 / YOUR BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS WEEKLY MULTIPLE CHOICE HOW TO PICK A HEALTH CARE PLAN HEALTH/ TOP DOCTORS SPECIAL FOCUS This month, VEGAS INC highlights the medical community. BROUGHT TO YOU BY NEVADA STATE BANK PROFITS RETURN TO THE CASINO EQUATION word seldom associated with Las Vegas casinos in recent years — profits — may be making a comeback. By Steve Green senior staff writer A flux and under greater pressure than ever before. F By Howard M. Riell Special to VEGAS INC / Illustration by Chris Morris inding the right health care plan for your company requires a touch so deft, it almost rivals that of a surgeon. ¶ Among the considerations: what can be a complex mix of workforce demographics, local laws and market forces, to say nothing of a health care industry in more ¶ Adding even more confusion is the Supreme Court's pending ruling on the fate of the Obama administration's overhaul of the nation's health care system, expected by late June. ¶ It also takes a commitment to finding the best options for both employees and budgets, to say nothing of some hard-nosed research to sift through the tangle of plans, providers, brokers, options, rules, regulations, laws and pending legislation. ¶ Traditional health care options — such as, health maintenance organizations, preferred provider groups and point of service plans — typically offer low deductibles, low co-payments and little or no out-of-pocket employee costs for network care. Such serve companies well when it comes to recruiting or retention purposes. SEE HEALTH CARE PAGE 14 " Service you deserve. People you trust. Brokerage • ProPerty ManageMent Fourth quarter 2011 financial results are in, and, for the most part, they show broad improvements as tourists return to Las Vegas. Even the locals' casino market, hit hard by high unemployment and foreclosures, appears to be stabilizing. Locals' gaming giant Station Casinos LLC, now free of bankruptcy, How do companies decide on a health care plan? First and foremost, as I always like to tell people, is selecting the right broker, which is always the best resource." Rachel Scales, vice president of sales and service for Aetna from the posted shackles year-end numbers that are a good example of the improvements that appear to be continuing this year. Its net revenue in 2011 rose 5.7 percent to $1.18 billion — quite a turnaround from the 10.5 percent decline in revenue in 2010. SEE PROFITS PAGE 17 INSIDE TODAY LAND OF THE FEE | P. 18 Richard N. Velotta examines Allegiant Air's business model. REAL DEALS | P.6 What will $150,000 buy in the Las Vegas housing market? We go house hunting. TOO BIG TO FAIL? | P. 7 A look at the future of big-box stores. 3065 S. Jones Blvd. Ste. 201 • Las Vegas, NV 89146-6780 • 702.388.1800 • info@mdlgroup.com