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Managed Care February 2004	Employers see cost-shifting efforts pay off In the fall of 2002, as employers were getting their first 2003 rates from the health plans, they were looking at a 14-percent increase," says Blaine Bos, one of the study's authors. "Then they took out their scalpel.... In 2003, employers took back lost ground."
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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
IndustryWeek September 22, 2010	The Return of the Raise Interest in retaining top talent drives growth.
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 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 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 January 2004	Large Employers Now Use DM To Cut Their Costs Employers are adopting disease management programs in a big way to slow the pace of health care premium increases, according to a survey of 3,000 businesses.
Managed Care April 2001	HMOs: Watch Out For Internet-Based Benefit Managers Forrester Research predicts that Internet-based companies that help people manage their employer-sponsored benefits will become a force by 2005...
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.
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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.
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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 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 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 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 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.
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?
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 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 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 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.
CFO February 1, 2008 Randy Myers	Rethinking Health Care Can more employee choice actually lower costs?
Managed Care November 2002 Frank Diamond	Companies Leaning on Workers in Battle Against Pharmacy Costs A new urgency means that tiered formularies and higher copayments will become even more widespread, a recent survey indicates.
Managed Care February 2002	Small Employers Want To Sidestep Giving Benefits The recession and higher medical costs are causing small employers to take a hard look at their sponsorship of health benefits...
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 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.
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.
InternetNews April 29, 2010	Business Intelligence Software: Good Enough? Complex, real-time queries of changing data may highlight BI software's weaknesses, a new study suggests.
Managed Care January 2007	Revenue Grows But Membership Declines In 2007, revenues for health insurers will continue growing, but enrollment will probably decline, according to a report issued by Corporate Research Group.
Information Today August 7, 2008	Forrester Research Acquires JupiterResearch, LLC This strategic purchase complements Forrester's syndicated business model, as JupiterResearch joins Forrester's Marketing & Strategy Client Group.
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Managed Care August 2006	Headlines On Deadline ... Aetna is unveiling something it calls the Medicare Open Plan, targeted for employers who want to offer retirees age 65 or over a fee-for-service Medicare Advantage plan.
Managed Care March 2000	Employers Predict Liability Expansion Bad for Coverage How employers would respond if patients were allowed to sue employer-sponsored health plans.
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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.
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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.