Consumers who switched from a traditional plan to a consumer driven health plan saved money and more efficiently utilized health care services, a new analysis finds.

That's the takeaway from the Health Care Service Corporation, which tracked more than 316,000 individual Blue Cross and Blue Shield members.

Its main finding? That "those migrating to a CDHP plan not only saw cost savings in the first year but continued to experience even lower health costs years later."

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