Consumer Driven Health Care

Because new payment models require effective and seamless care coordination among providers, new methods of delivering care have also been experiments in the living laboratory. Two in particular have become especially prominent.

As Warren Zevon once said: Lifell kill ya. And thats something most Americans agree with.

The fee-for-service model that's served us for so long is being replaced with different models, ones that typically move some of the burden of risk from payers (and employers) to care providers.

Weight Watchers and Humana have teamed up to help employers attack the rising obesity epidemic and its fast-growing threat to employee health and productivity.

 

Consumer-driven health plans are increasingly helping control costs at companies that provide employee health insurance.