Consumer-Driven Healthcare

Employers choose consumer-driven health care plans as cost-control strategy

Published in Managed Care Weekly Digest, November 10th, 2003

Another year of double-digit health care cost inflation - 14.3% - has prompted additional employers to consider a consumer-driven health care insurance model, according to a new survey conducted by the Human Capital practice of Deloitte.

Consumer-driven health care plans lower employer spending on health insurance by encouraging employees to use cost efficient providers and become much more active in their health care purchasing decisions and in managing their financial risk.

Co-sponsored with Business & Health magazine, Deloitte's 2003 Employer Health Care Strategy Survey polled more than 1,000 employers from all industries and regions of the...

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Source: Managed Care Weekly Digest (2003-11-10)

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