SHPS PUBLISHED A BOOKLET entitled "Making Consumerism Work: A Practical Guide for Transforming Healthcare," which offers strategies and tactics for implementing a health care consumerism program.
In the 68-page booklet, the company offers a perspective on consumer-driven health care by suggesting the real solution is "healthcare consumerism." Health care consumerism expands the narrow, plan-focused approach of
CDHC into a health strategy that combines plan design, spending accounts, care management, wellness programs, incentives and health advocacy services.
SHPS contends the total impact of a health care consumerism program is a reduction of 65 percent to 75 percent of the prevailing annual increase in health care costs. Companies are using best practices in consumerism experience 2 percent or 3 percent increases in health care costs annually, compared with a national average
of nearly 10 percent.
Complimentary copies of "Making Consumerism Work" are available for a limited time at www.shps.com/consumerism.
