Consumer Driven Health Care

Participation in a Nebraska wellness program designed to lower health care costs and improve productivity has increased to more than 30 percent.

It seems cliché to say that the future is now, but it is. So what are you doing now to rethink your core business processes, learn from other industries, and redefine your consumer brand in order to sustain and strengthen your business model? What are you doing to become a...

Rising benefits costs are forcing employers to make difficult trade-offs

Since its inception in 2003, health savings accounts have grown at a phenomenal rate. Today, there are more than 10 million accounts nationwide, a figure thats expected to increase significantly in the next few years.

To many, the phrase consumer-driven health care is another way of saying higher deductibles and co-pays. Make it more expensive to access medical care, the logic goes, and employees will think harder about whether that doctors visit is really necessary.

Times are tough, and over the last couple of years Americans have decided to forego health care expenses in lieu of basic expenses and the costs to economically survive.