"Consumer-driven health care" is designed to get employees to be smart health care shoppers who can save money at the same time.
Health Savings Accounts are the most familiar form so far, but companies are creating a host of ways to shift the cost of health care while encouraging employees to live healthy lifestyles.
A time to choose
by Lorna Benson Consumer-driven health care's premise is based on the idea that if employees have more responsibility for health care decisions, they can bring down costs by making better choices.
Learning the language of health care
by Annie Baxter Words like co-insurance and health reimbursement accounts have probably been creeping into your vocabulary. You're beginning to speak the language of consumer driven health care
A look at market-driven health care
by Mark Zdechlik At its best consumers could expect an unheard of level of customer service, running the gamut from expanded office hours to special treatment at the door.
Health savings accounts get the business
by Mark Steil Consumer plans combine high deductible insurance with an employee-controlled Health Savings Account. Unions in particular say the approach is flawed.