To rein in health care costs, corporate, government, and insurance professionals have been exploring ways to identify top performing providers, band together for group discounts, and educate health care consumers about the choices they make both in the lifestyle and medical treatment arenas.
This year, 20 enterprise level corporations intend to work together to dig deeply into those realms to determine whether they can crack the tough nut of controlling health care costs.
The Health Transformation Alliance includes such power players as Weyerhaeuser, Shell Oil, Pitney Bowes, Ingersoll Rand, The Hartford, Coca-Cola, and DuPont. The areas they have pinpointed for their special attention aren’t new. But to date, results in each area have not unleashed the potential that experts believe exist within them.
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
