Take Care of Yourself: Employers Embrace Consumerism to Control Healthcare Costs

Topics:
Accounting software,
Healthcare Services,
Insurance
Tags:
Benefits,
Consumerism,
Enterprise Software,
Health Care,
Healthcare,
Human Resources,
Software,
Vertical Industries
Source:
PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Overview: Consumer-directed benefits, like managed care, are buzz words with broad, but important relevance for employers. Managed care was designed to put control where there was none. Today's trend toward consumerism attempts to inject something that's been missing from health benefits - a consumer who cares more about cost and quality. The paper depicts about a survey which found that a major change under way as employers embrace consumerism to help them control healthcare costs. Consumerism is more than high co-pays or an increase in coinsurance. It reveals that when successfully implemented, consumer-directed benefits can help employees navigate a complicated and thinly understood healthcare and benefits system.

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Format: PDF | Size: 356KB | Date: Sep 2005 | Pages: 36

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