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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 January 2006	Managed Care Outlook Two surveys point to growth for consumer-directed health plans.
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 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 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 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 July 2007	Having a Baby? Avoid CDH Plans A report issued by the Kaiser Family Foundation evaluates the level of insurance protection that consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) provide women for maternity care.
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 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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
Managed Care May 2004 MargaretAnn Cross	Will Providers Seek New Contracts As Consumer-Directed Plans Grow? Although plans are not restructuring fee schedules in consumer-directed health plans, providers think their agreements need fine-tuning.
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.
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.
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 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 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?
Insurance & Technology September 16, 2005 Katherine Burger	Educating Consumers A truly technology-enabled offering, the idea behind consumer-directed healthcare is that everyone benefits when consumers have more information.
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.
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 October 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	Just How Will CDHC Change Your Job? Medical directors are charged with many of the tasks that could help members make the most of consumer-directed health plans.
Managed Care August 2004	Humana Thinks Premium Cap Sets Plan Apart The health plan hopes to gain a competitive edge by joining two important components of today's insurance -- consumer-directed health plans and information technology -- with a rare cap on premium hikes.
Managed Care December 2005 MargaretAnn Cross	The Ethical Way In a Season of Change Advancing technologies and new coverage designs are creating opportunities -- and obligations -- for health plan medical directors.
CFO February 1, 2008 Randy Myers	Rethinking Health Care Can more employee choice actually lower costs?
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.
Managed Care September 2003 Tony Berberabe	Pharmacy Benefit Starts To Reflect Push for Consumer-Directed Care Health insurance plans looking for a low-risk way to experiment with new benefit designs might start with the pharmacy benefit.
Managed Care July 2005 Tony Berberabe	Change in Thinking For Pharmacy Benefits in CDHP The difference between the pharmacy benefit in a consumer-directed health plan and a traditional health plan is greater generic drug utilization.
Managed Care January 2007 John Carroll	Erosion of Employer-Sponsored Health Care: Bad for Everyone More companies are offering less coverage - or none at all. Even those that offer coverage find that more of their workers choose not to sign up.
Managed Care May 2006	Many More CDH Plans to Include Pharmacy The number of plan sponsors that will offer consumer-directed health plans that integrate pharmacy and medical benefits increased more than 16-fold, from 3 to 50, between January 2005 and January 2006, according to Medco Health Solutions.
Managed Care September 2003	Should Benefit to Individuals Outweigh Good for Groups? Medical ethicists believe the United States needs to have a forthright public debate about how to spend limited health care resources wisely. Can consumer-directed plans, with their emphasis on giving people a stake in health care costs, play a role in forming that public discussion?
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 September 2007	Opportunity in Shift to Consumer Plans As enrollment in consumer-directed plans increases steadily, some consultants are predicting a breakout year for the movement.
Insurance & Technology February 2, 2006 Maria Woehr	Aligning on Payments WellChoice and American Express have teamed to offer the American Express HealthPay Plus Card, a healthcare payment solution for participants in Empire Total Blue's consumer-directed health plan.
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.
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.