CDHC Solutions Newsletter

Enhance wellness and ROI with personally meaningful incentives
By InteliSpend
The cost of insuring employees has more than doubled in the last decade. This, along with a desire to improve productivity, has caused more and more employers to turn to company wellness programs. However, despite their popularity, these programs aren’t living up to their potential. Participation rates are disappointingly low, with only 46 percent of those with access to a wellness program participating in the past year. Why? (more)

The Secret to the Virginia Health Care Decision
By Evan Falchuk, president, Best Doctors, Inc.
Unconstitutional? How can the mandate to buy health insurance be unconstitutional? It must be some kind of misguided resistance to progressivism. Or maybe it’s someone finally taking a stand against a power-grabbing government program.
But it’s actually about something else entirely. And if you don’t know what it is, you won’t understand why the Virginia court ruled the way it did. Here’s the secret. (more)

Health Reform Navigator, a One-Stop Shop for Questions and Direction on the Health Care Law
By Todd Callahan, online content manager, FieldMedia LLC
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has passed and is now law. However, passage of the law has seemingly created more questions than answers among benefit managers, brokers and policymakers. (more)

What Health Care Can Learn from a 200-Year-Old Economics Lesson
By RedBrick Health
Say you were in a different line of work – the prisoner-relocation industry, for instance, and the year was 1790…what’s your most significant business challenge? Well, if you were doing business out of England,
transporting your cargo to Australia without killing them would likely be right up there. (more)

Events

CDHC Solutions
FORUM EAST
MAY 11 - MAY 12, 2011
ATLANTA, GA

CIGNA’s John Young and FIS’ Tom Torre to kick off the event’s general session titled, “Health Care Reform and Health Care Consumerism" (read more about this event here)

Briefs

Medco Extends URAC Accreditation to Drug Therapy Management, PBM
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Dec. 28, 2010 -- Medco Health Solutions, Inc., announced that URAC, one of the nation's leading independent health care quality evaluators, has accredited Medco's Pharmacy Benefit Management and Drug Therapy Management (DTM) programs, recognizing the company's commitment to clinical quality and accountability to customers. (more)

UPMC Health Plan Introduces UPMC MyHealth Connect
PITTSBURGH (Dec. 27, 2010) – UPMC Health Plan is introducing UPMC MyHealth Connect, its first web-browser mobile application and the first in the region to provide access to all members and non-members regardless of the brand of smartphone they use. MyHealth Connect will provide most users with immediate access to UPMC Health Plan’s network of doctors, hospitals, facilities and urgent care centers. (more)