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Managed Care March 2004 MargaretAnn Cross	Consumer-Directed Plans Begin Measuring Patient Satisfaction Initial results are promising. Employees turn toward preventive medicine and away from expensive drug therapies.
Managed Care August 2007	Consumer-Directed Health Plans: Built to Last or Designed to Fail? A point-counterpoint debate about the effect of CDHPs on overall health and health care costs.
Managed Care August 2007 Lola Butcher	What Attracts Workers to Consumer-Directed Plans? High-deductible insurance hasn't been a big draw, but plan sponsors have found a few ways to make it attractive.
Managed Care November 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Health Plans by Design, Not by Default Fortune 500 employers are ready to shed old benefit models for "managed consumerism".
Managed Care September 2003 Martin Sipkoff	This Isn't the First Attempt To Shift Cost to Employees Companies are decreasing their share of medical insurance premiums. It remains to be seen how this will affect workers' health status.
Managed Care February 2006 Lola Butcher	Consumer-Directed Health Pains Two studies suggest that consumer-directed health care may not be a long-term method for controlling health care costs.
Managed Care June 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Consumer-Directed and Home-Brewed Regional health plans and small HMOs coming late to the consumer-directed health plan market haven't missed out -- yet.
Managed Care February 2004 MargaretAnn Cross	Why Workers Choose CDHPs: Matter of Dollars and Sense In a new study of how consumer-directed plans are doing, one finding is that lower premiums was not a major factor in whether workers selected such a plan.
Managed Care November 2007 MargaretAnn Cross	The Evolving Health Plan The consumer-directed health care model isn't taking the country by storm, but its innovations are influencing other coverage designs.
Managed Care July 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Momentum Shifts Toward Consumer-Directed Plans Looking at past enrollment shifts and at the evolution of managed care can shed light on how to compete in the new market for account-based consumer-directed care.
Insurance & Technology June 3, 2009 Anthony O'Donnell	MetLife Launches Open Enrollment Portal for Employers and Brokers Benefits portal includes tools and resources to help employers control costs and craft effective benefits communication.
CFO February 22, 2005 Joseph McCafferty	Attention Shoppers Consumer-driven health plans are catching on quickly, but are they the answer to runaway medical costs?
Managed Care November 2003	Double-digit increases continue for health benefits Despite some slowing in the trend, employers can still expect to face the fifth straight year of double-digit increases for employee health care benefits. Towers Perrin surveyed 200 businesses with an average workforce of 7,200 to find that a 12-percent increase in costs is expected in 2004.
Managed Care January 2007	Consumer-Directed Drive Loses Steam Enrollment growth in consumer-directed or high-deductible health plans stalled last year, according to a survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute and the Commonwealth Fund.
Managed Care November 2006	Managed Care Outlook Health benefit costs continue to outpace CPI.
CFO August 1, 2003 Joseph McCafferty	Heal Thyself Consumer-directed health care is hot. But is it a danger to the medical-insurance system?
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Managed Care September 2007	Headlines On Deadline ... The underinsured account for 24 percent of the United States population... Communicating with employees is the greatest challenge employers face when introducing a consumer-directed health plan... etc.
Investment Advisor January 27, 2011 Danielle Andrus	More Employers Offer Help Meeting Retirement Goals Automation, advice are popular ways to help employees with retirement saving.
Managed Care September 2003 MargaretAnn Cross	Consumer-Directed Health Care: Too Good To Be True? People talk about it as the sure way to control costs and give consumers the choice they seem to want. Are we being realistic?
Managed Care August 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Consumers in This Market Struggle To Keep Their HMOs Rochester, N.Y., faces rising health care costs and a growing employer interest in consumer-directed health plans. Can a managed care town hold its own?
Managed Care June 2005 Frates & Severoni	Consumer-Directed Health Plans: Enrollee Views, Early Employer Experience As CDHPs increasingly penetrate the commercial market, their greatest contribution might lie in funding health services for retirees and in reducing the number of uninsured people by offering affordable insurance.
Managed Care August 2004	Computer Game Simulates Coverage and Outcomes Consumer-directed health care plans can work, say employers in a recent survey, if the right tactics are used to help workers manage their health and benefits better.
Managed Care April 2007	Headlines On Deadline ... Members of Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies and privately-held health plans tend to rate their overall service experience notably higher than enrollees of non-Blue plans owned by publicly-traded companies...More employers are offering consumer-directed health plans... etc.
IndustryWeek October 19, 2011	Health Care Reform: Time For a Checkup? Don't be fooled by a lull in the rollout of provisions. Now is the time to shape your health care benefits strategy.
Managed Care January 2006	Costs Slow Down, But Not Enough to Assuage Employers' Concern A new survey shows that health care costs for companies are increasing more slowly than in recent years.
CFO July 15, 2008 Russ Banham	Serving Employees, at a Price When employees are automatically enrolled in 401(k) plans the company tab can soar.
Job Journal July 11, 2004 Michael Kinsman	Career Pros: Workers Want Straight Talk Spooked by the surge in corporate accounting scandalsm, wary workers are looking for more candor from their employers.
Managed Care July 2005	Fear Called Primary Factor In How Coverage Is Chosen Fear and insecurity play a huge role in how people make decisions about health coverage, according to a study by Towers Perrin.
Managed Care January 2006 Maureen Glabman	What Doctors Don't Know About the New Plan Designs Physicians are fairly ignorant of what consumer-directed health care will mean to them in terms of relations with patients and health plans.
CFO March 1, 2008 Scott Leibs	A Fatal Flaw for CDHPs? Consumer-driven health plans may not pass the test of time if companies don't do a better job of communicating their virtues to employees.
Managed Care June 2007 Lola Butcher	Big Companies Holding Fast To Employer-Sponsored System In board rooms across the country, decisions are being made to battle, rather than run from, rising costs of health care.
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Managed Care November 2004 MargaretAnn Cross	Accrediting Agencies Turn Attention To Consumer-Directed Health Plans If employers make decisions based on United Regional Health Care Foundation's and National Committee for Quality Assurance's rating of traditional managed care plans, shouldn't they want similar ratings of consumer-directed health plans?
Managed Care May 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Are Consumers Really Directing Their Own Care? In theory, consumer-directed health plans put the reins of decision making into the hands of their members. But medical management departments are alive and well inside CDHPs -- and may even expand under these plan designs.
Entrepreneur June 2006 Mark Henricks	What's Up, Doc? Inflated health insurance prices are putting the squeeze on your budget, but are consumer-directed plans the way to go?
BusinessWeek November 5, 2007 Jena McGregor	Sweat More, Pay Less Principal Financial Group launched a health-care insurance product that asks participants with health risks to try to shape up or pay more.
Managed Care July 2005 John A. Marcille	Talk About Consumer Plans Rapidly Becoming Reality After years of expectation and debate, consumer-directed health plans are all over the place.
Managed Care July 2007	Employers Take Greater Interest in Managing Chronic Conditions According to a new study, employers face major decisions on how (and whether) they will offer health care plans to their employees.
Managed Care June 2006	Survey: Workers Not Guided When Choosing Care A study shows employers believe their workers can learn what they need to know to become better buyers of health services.
Managed Care October 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Medtronic, Early Adopter of CDHP, More Than Satisfied With Result The medical device manufacturer, Definity Health's first client nearly 5 years ago, has moved a fourth of its employees into the new-style consumer-directed health plan.
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