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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 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 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 July 2007 Lola Butcher	Consumer-Directed Plans Fall Short of Expectation As the consumer-directed health plan design approaches its seventh year in the marketplace, some wonder if it will ever be more than a niche product.
CFO August 1, 2003 Joseph McCafferty	Heal Thyself Consumer-directed health care is hot. But is it a danger to the medical-insurance system?
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 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 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 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 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 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?
CFO February 1, 2008 Randy Myers	Rethinking Health Care Can more employee choice actually lower costs?
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 September 2003 John A. Marcille	How Should We Evaluate The New Insurance Models? Business people have to come up with new products, and in our part of the economy, the hot product is consumer-directed health care. Yet we all know that a product that is well promoted and superficially attractive is not necessarily good for us all, individually or collectively.
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 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 October 2005 Martin Sipkoff	The Lure of Tax Reform Politicians on both sides of the aisle are considering tax reforms as a way of fixing the health care system. What might it mean for health plans?
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?
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 October 2004	Consumer-Directed Insurance Plans Problematic for Patients, Docs, HMOs New studies are finding wide variations of cost and quality across hospitals and physicians, yet few private insurers, managed care plans, or public programs reward superior quality or efficiency.
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.
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 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.
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.
Financial Planning April 1, 2007 Donald Jay Korn	Healthy, Wealthy and Wise As more and more affluent clients start managing their medical costs, financial advisors may be asked to provide a second opinion on the choices.
Managed Care July 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Efforts To Cover the Uninsured An Opportunity for Health Plans Employers and state governments are getting together to design imaginative insurance programs to cover low-pay workers.
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.
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2006	Sales and Marketing: Where the Buck Stops Pharma's ultimate customer is the employer - the guy who pays the health plan's bill. Here's what he wants to know about drugs.