The Plan Design & Financing Strategies community showcases the latest news and innovative trends employers use to establish, implement and maintain a health care plan and strategies for moving from a traditional health plan to self-funding, or a consumer-directed health plan.
For more than 30 years I have had the privilege of sharing candid personal insights with stakeholders about the status of the TPA industry, employee benefits marketplace, and always-swirling government environment. My reports and predictions have sometimes seemed wild, but I am amazed that they have had about a 90
Hosts Brent Macy, Managing Director with The Institute for HealthCare Consumerism (IHC), and Ron Bachman, Chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board, speak with Cecily Hall, Executive Vice President, MedEncentive. Cecily talks about her FORUM workshop "Achieving the Triple Aim by Triangulating the Interests of Payors, Providers and Patients".
Hosts Doug Field, CEO of The Institute for HealthCare Consumerism (IHC), and Ron Bachman, Chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board, talk with Dr. Wendy Lynch, Co-Director, Center for Consumer Choice in Health Care at Altarum. This discussion focuses on how to create better consumers of health care.
amednews.com: A survey of self-insured companies finds that many support efforts linking physician pay to quality and price measures.
New product provides never before seen transparency and standards to improve quality and affordability of health care for surgical procedures
Plans save up to $2,000 per year per employee on insured health care costs
CEO of Castlight to Join Leading Health Care Entrepreneurs and Visionaries to Discuss the Future of Health Care
05/17/2013 - Transparency in health care remains the exception rather than the rule. Consumers often must go...
05/15/2013 - We are back on the air this Friday with another great episode of HealthCare Consumerism...
In a white paper released by Change Healthcare, 91 percent of employees with families and 65 percent of employees overall would have spent less under a CDHP than a PPO. Families averaged $140 per month in savings.
The following is a white paper produced by Huron Healthcare.
The National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE) has produced a survey of their members